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Catalyst 6000 and 6500 Series Architecture
Overview The ever increasing demands for bandwidth and performance, and even greater need for intelligent network services, challenge today’s switches, routers, and associated devices. Customers require a wide range of performance and services, including high availability, quality of service (QoS), and security, to build scalable enterprise and service provider networks. The Catalyst 6500 Series architecture supports scalable switching bandwidth up to 256 Gbps and scalable multilayer switching that exceeds 200 million packets per second (pps). For customers not requiring the performance of the Catalyst 6500 Series, the Catalyst 6000 Series provides a more cost-effective solution, with backplane bandwidth of 32 Gbps and multilayer switching that scales up to 15 million pps. The Catalyst 6000 Series architecture provides a superior schema for congestion management by using per-port buffering. In addition, the advanced switching engines of the Catalyst 6500 Series ensure that services such as QoS, security, and policing can be done with no performance degradation.
| Publisher | Cisco Systems, Inc. | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | August 2002 | Downloads | 113 |
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