Switching Backplane

Catalyst 6000 Series: 32 Gbps

Catalyst 6500 Series: Scalable to 256 Gbps

Memory

64 MB DRAM (Supervisor 1)

64 MB DRAM (MSFC); expandable to 128 MB

128 MB DRAM (MSFC2); expandable to 256 MB or 512 MB

Optional 16 and 24 MB Flash PCMCIA cards

Interfaces

10 Gigabit Ethernet (LR, EX4 via SC)

Gigabit Ethernet (SX LX/LH, and ZX interfaces via GBICs, MT-RJ, RJ-45)

100BaseFX MMF or SMF (MT-RJ)

10/100BaseTX (RJ-45 and RJ-21 Options)

ATM OC12 (Single mode and Multimode Options)

Network Analysis Module

Intrusion Detection Module

Content Switching Module

Switch Load indicator

Approximates switch load from 1 to 100%

Standard Network Protocols

IEEE 802.1Q, 802.1p, 802.3x

Ethernet: IEEE 802.3, 10BaseT, and 10BaseFL

Fast Ethernet: IEEE 802.3u, 100BaseTX, 10BaseFX

Gigabit Ethernet: IEEE 802.3z

Embedded Manageability

• NewFlow data export

• TopN ports report

• RMON agent

• HC RMON (High Capacity, 64-bit counters)

• Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) and Enhanced-SPAN

• Multiple Concurrent SPAN

• Remote SPAN

• Filtered SPAN

• Syslog support

• Telnet/command line interface support

• IP TraceRoute

• Domain Name Server (DNS) services

• Network Time Protocol (NTP)

• Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) v2

• VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)

• IEEE Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP)

• IEEE GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)

• VLAN Query Protocol (VQP)

• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v2c agent

• SNMP MIB-II support

• SNMP MIB Additions and Enhancements

  Cisco-Switch-Engine-MIB

  Cisco-Memory-Pool-MIB

  Entity-MIB

  TraceRoute MIB

• SNMP Traps

• Multiple module software download

• Multiple Default IP Gateway

• Login banner for console

Scalability

• IP Multilayer Switching

• IP Multicast Multilayer Switching

• IPX Multilayer Switching

• Multi-protocol routing: Appletalk, DECnet, Vines, OSI, and CLNS

• IP Routing Protocols: RIPv1/v2, OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP4, IS-IS

• Jumbo Gigabit Ethernet Frame switching

• Accelerated Server Load Balancing

• IEEE GARP Multicast Registration Protocol

• Fast EtherChannel/Gigabit EtherChannel/PAgP

• ISL Trunking

• 802.1Q / 802.1p

• Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP)

• Dynamic VLAN VMPS client

• VTP, VTP version 2

• VTP Pruning

Bandwidth Management

• Protocol Filtering

• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) snooping

• Broadcast suppression

• Link load balancing

• Fast EtherChannel (FEC) / Gigabit EtherChannel (GEC)

Network Resilience

• Redundant supervisors with Active Uplinks

• BackboneFast convergence

• UplinkFast convergence

• PortFast convergence

• FEC/GEC IP address-based Load Balancing

• FEC/GEC Across Line Modules

• Uni-Directional Link Detection (UDLD)

• Interswitch Link (ISL) 802.1Q

• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

• Spanning Tree per VLAN

• Enable/disable STP per VLAN

• Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)

• Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)

• Enhanced Internet Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)

• EtherChannel to Servers

Security Services

• Port Security

• TACACS+ authentication

• RADIUS Authentication

• IP Permit list

• Traps and syslog messages sent upon security violations

• Advanced Layer 2/3/4 Intra-VLAN Access Lists (VACL)

• Advanced Layer 3/4 Inter-VLAN Standard and Extended Access List

• Reflexive ACL

• Dynamic ACL

• Policy-based Routing

• Network Address Translation

Quality of Service

• IP precedence detection and classification

• 802.1Q/802.1p detection and classification

• IP Differentiated Services packet detection and classification

• Bandwidth Policing

• Congestion Avoidance (Per-port WRED drop thresholds)

• Traffic Scheduling (Per-port Weighted Round Robin queue scheduling)

• COPS/RSVP

• Port level delay and drop threshold settings

Multicast

• Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP)

• Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) (sparse and dense modes)

• IGMP/IGMP snooping

• IEEE GARP Multicast Registration Protocol (GMRP)