Cisco 6500 Series Switches

Cisco introduces the Cisco Catalyst 6509 Enhanced Vertical Chassis as part of the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series of enhanced (E-Series) switches, delivering chassis with up to 1440 Gbps of system bandwidth capacity (80 Gbps/slot), enhanced cable management, and front-to-back airflow optimized for hot aisle/cold aisle designs in data center and service provider collocation (NEBS-L3 compliant) deployments. Cisco Catalyst 6500 E-Series chassis provide superior investment protection by supporting multiple generations of products on the same chassis, lowering the total cost of ownership. The Cisco Catalyst 6509-V-E chassis (Figure 1) supports both the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 32 and the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 720 family of supervisor engines and associated LAN, WAN, and services modules.The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series allows organizations to increase productivity and control costs in three areas:

• Virtualization - Simplify operations, reduce network costs, and maximize existing investments.
• Collaboration - Increase productivity by overcoming the barriers of location, distance, and time.
• Operations - Automate network services, energy control and minimize total cost of ownership (TCO).

Category includes Cisco 6503, 6503-E, 6504, 6504-E, 6506, 6506-E, 6509, 6509-NEB-A, 6509-E, 6513 Switches, WS-SUP720-3BXL Supervisors, Line Cards and Modules with various additional capabilities.