Cisco Catalyst 6500 Family

Flagship Platform of the Catalyst Family

With more than 35,000 customers, the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch is the benchmark for innovation and investment protection in networking. To support Borderless Networks, the switches deliver high performance and a broad feature set suitable for campus, data center, WAN, and Metro Ethernet deployments.

Increased Uptime

Catalyst 6500 E-Series Switches support modular Cisco IOS Software to decrease unplanned downtime and simplify software changes through in-service software upgrades.

Security

The Cisco Catalyst 6500 E-Series integrates the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 720 and the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Adaptive Security Service Module to take advantage of the existing infrastructure and deliver integrated security services with increased VPN session counts and efficient power consumption in a single blade.

Mobility

Catalyst 6500 E-Series Wireless Service Module 2 easily integrates wired and wireless networks and provides security, mobility, and redundancy for business-critical WLANs.

Network Management

The Catalyst 6500 E-Series Network Analysis Module 3, optimized for 10 Gb performance, improves resource utilization, troubleshooting, and the end-user experience.

Application Performance

The Catalyst 6500 E-Series Application Control Engine 30 increases availability, accelerates performance, and enhances security.

Virtualization

The Catalyst Virtual Switching System (VSS) increases operational efficiency by simplifying the network with a single point of management, while still providing redundancy. VSS activates all available bandwidth across redundant Catalyst 6500 Series Switches and eliminates asymmetric routing.