As Cisco's premier modular multilayer switch, the Catalyst 6500 series delivers secure, converged services from the wiring closet to the core, from the datacenter to the WAN edge. The Supervisor Engine 720 is part of the Catalyst 6500's third generation suite of modules intended to continue lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO).

• 6503
• 6506
• 6509
• 6509-NEB
• 6509-NEB-A
• 6513
• 7603
• 7606
• 7609
• OSR-7609
• 7613

• 110 V AC
• 220 V AC

• 1 x RJ-45 10/100/1000Base-T Uplink
• 1 x RJ-45 Console Management

• Item Included:
• Catalyst 6000 Sup2 Mem, 512MB DRAM Option (MEM-S2-512MB)
• MSFC2 Memory Option 512 MB (MEM-MSFC2-512MB)
• Extends investment protection in existing Catalyst 6500 deployments and is fully compatible with all existing modules
• Enables new applications and services with h/w accelerated IPv6, MPLS, GRE and NAT as well
• Increases slot efficiency by integrating a high performance 720 Gbps switch fabric backplane with a new routing and forwarding engine, including a third generation policy feature card (PFC3)
• Simplifies Network Operations with a wide range of features
• Ideal for high performance backbone and datacenter service provider and enterprise environments
• Forwarding architecture: Uses centralized and distributed forwarding modes of operation based on CEF, dCEF, and aCEF
• Layer 2-4 forwarding: Support for Layer 2-4 forwarding and Layer 2-4 services
• MAC addresses: Up to 64K
• Forwarding rate: Up to 400 Mpps per system
• Bandwidth: 720 Gbps, integrated switch fabric
• Layer 2-3 traffic classification and marking: Layer 2 and Layer 3
• Multilayer (Layer 3) switching: IPv4 and IPv6 MPLS switching support in hardware
• Distributed forwarding: Supports aCEF and dCEF distributed forwarding
• Distributed Cisco Express Forwarding (dCEF): With dCEF720 and dCEF256 interface modules
• Accelerated Cisco Express Forwarding (aCEF): With aCEF720 interface modules
• Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF): With CEF256 and Classic interface modules
• Hardware-based forwarding engine: PFC3 on board
• MSFC daughter card version: MSFC3 on board
• Switch Fabric Module (SFM) supported: Integrated switch fabric
• Two Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports; either two Gigabit Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) ports or one Gigabit SFP port and one 10/100/1000 RJ-45 port