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Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series
The flagship Catalyst switching platform offers the highest levels of application
intelligence, unified network services, integrated security, non-stop communications,
operational manageability, and virtualization for enterprises, medium-sized
businesses, and service providers.
The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series continues to be the industry's most innovative
switching platform, delivering the highest levels of service. The feature-richness,
density and scalability of this product line sets the standard for converged data,
voice, and video networks. In addition, its flexibility enables deployments in wiring
closet, campus distribution, core, data center, Internet access and WAN service
aggregation, environments, and enables maximum operational efficiency and
investment protection through hardware and software consistency.
The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series offers integrated service modules that provide
high-speed advanced services such as integrated wireless, firewalling, intrusion
detection, application control, SSL termination, and network analysis services. With
a choice of 3-, 4-, 6-, 9-, and 13-slot chassis, the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series scales
to support the highest port densities for Power over Ethernet (PoE) and Enhanced
Power over Ethernet (ePoE), 10/100 Fast Ethernet, 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet,
10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GBE) 10GBase-T and DS0 to OC-192 WAN interfaces. The
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switch also offers the investment protection of backwards
compatibility, enabling new services and functions on older line cards by simply
upgrading a supervisor to the latest generation.
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