Features of Catalyst 6500 family of switches

Performance based features
-up to 6510 gigabit Ethernet ports
-Hundred of millions of packets per second for layer 2 through 4 switching of packets and frames, depending on the Supervisor engine model and line card models
-Distributed CEF architecture
-Multiple performance options including 32-GBPS, 256-GBPS, and 720-GBPS bandwidth options with system throughput with 15mpps(million packets per second),30 mpps,210 mpps, or upto 400 mpps
-400Mbps using dCEF720 hardware
-Hardware support for enterprise class and service provider scale routing tables for high performance
-IPv6 support in hardware using Supervisor Engine 720
-Legacy protocol support(such as IPX and DECNET) for specific hardware models
-Cisco security solutions, including intrusion detection, firewall, VPN, and SSL at multiGigabit speeds
-Gigabit Network Access Module for remote administration and network monitoring
-Available integrated Content Switching Module (CSM) for high performance, feature rich server and firewall load balancing
-Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) offers unsurpassed firewall and virtualization services
-GRE support and layer2 support in hardware at 400mpps
-Hardware-assisted NAT support
-NBAR network management and control support at Gigabit speeds


Scalability based features
-Forward thinking architecture with investment protection
-Available in a 3-, 6-, 9-, and 13-slot modular chassis
-Up to 1152 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet ports per chassis using TJ-45 or RJ-21
-Multiple Gigabit and 10Gigabit truck ports per chassis
-Data and Voice Integration with 802.3af Power over Ethernet (PoE)
-MPLS support
-Support for up to 1,000,000 IPv4 route and 500,000 IPv6 routes in hardware
-Support for up to 128,000 NetFlow entries
-Support for Layer 3 classification, aggregate rate limiting and flow based rate limiting
-Available dense T1/E1 and Foreign Exchange Station(FXS) VoIP gateway interfaces for PSTN access and traditional phone, fax, and PBX connections
-LAN, MAN and WAN convergence
-Long product life cycle
-Application-Oriented Networking (AON)




High Availability based features
-Nonstop forwarding and Stateful Switchover(NSF/SSO)
-Cisco IOS software modularity
-Designed for redundancy
-HSRP and VRRP
-802.1d/802.1s/802.1w Spanning-Tree redundancy
-802.3ad and EtherChannel link redundancy
-Highly available, stateful protocol redundancy
-Image versioning
-Cisco IOS Software redundancy
-Individual component redundancy
-Dual,redundant Supervisor Engines
-Redundant switching fabrics
-redundant power supplies
-Intelligent network services redundancy
-Redundant clocking system
-Redundant fan system


Security based features
-Denial-of-service (DoS) attack mitigation
-Security Service Modules
-Man-in-the-middle attack mitigation
-Identity based Networking Services (IBNS)
-Access list counters for monitoring traffic using specific details
-Port security
-IEEE 802.1x and 802.1x extensions for access-based security
-VLAN and router ACLs and Port ACLs for traffic filtering
-Security ACL entries
-Reflexive ACLs
-Inicast Reverse Path Forwarding(uRPF) check in hardware for multicast forwarding protection
-CPU rate limiters for DoS protection
-Private VLANs for host-to-host protection
-Support for large number interfaces with unique ACLs
-MAC ACLs on IP
-TCP intercept hardware acceleration


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