The Cisco® Catalyst® 6500 Supervisor Engine 2T (Figure 1) is the newest addition to the family of supervisor engines. The Supervisor Engine 2T is designed to deliver higher performance, better scalability, and enhanced hardware-enabled features. Supervisor Engine 2T integrates a high-performance 2-Terabit crossbar switch fabric that enables 80 Gbps switching capacity per slot on all Cisco Catalyst 6500 E-Series Chassis. The forwarding engine on Supervisor Engine 2T is capable of delivering high-performance forwarding for Layer 2 and Layer 3 services. Supervisor Engine 2T delivers many new hardware-enabled innovations in the areas of security, quality of service (QoS), virtualization, and manageability. The rich feature set of Supervisor Engine 2T enhances applications such as traditional IP forwarding, Layer 2 and Layer 3 Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPNs, and VPLS. The Cisco Catalyst 6500 with Supervisor Engine 2T and all the features and the technical advancements establish product leadership in borderless networks as well as data center deployments.
Figure 1. Supervisor Engine 2T
Features and Benefits
Supervisor Engine 2T delivers scalable performance, intelligence, and a broad set of features to address the needs of Borderless Networks, data centers, and service provider networks. Some of the primary features for Supervisor Engine 2T include:
• Platform scalability: Delivering up to 80 Gbps per slot of switching capacity on E-Series chassis; 2-Terabit aggregate bandwidth capacity using the 6513-E chassis, scaling to 4-Terabit capacity with VSS. Support for up to 1056 ports of 1Gbps and 352 ports of 10Gbps systems deployed with VSS. Providing 1Gbps/10Gbps and 40Gbps interface support to address future customer bandwidth growth requirements.
• Security: Support for Cisco TrustSec, CTS, providing MacSec encryption and Role-Based ACL. Providing control plane policing to address denial of service attacks.
• Virtualization: Native support for VPLS, as well as enhancements such as VPN-aware NAT, VPN statistics, and VPN netflow as important features needed for deployment of network virtualization.
• Netflow application monitoring: Supervisor Engine 2T supports enhanced application monitoring such as Flexible and Sampled Netflow for intelligent and scalable application monitoring.
Primary Supervisor Engine 2T Components
Policy Feature Card 4
Supervisor Engine 2T features the integrated Policy Feature Card 4 (PFC4), which improves performance and scalability and provides new and enhanced hardware features. The PFC4 is equipped with a high-performance ASIC complex that enables hardware acceleration for existing and new software features. The PFC4 supports Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding, QoS, Netflow and Access Control List (ACLs) and multicast packet replication and processes security policies such as access control lists (ACLs) operations all simultaneously enabled with no performance impact. The PFC4 supports all of these operations for both IPv4 and IPv6.
PFC4 also provides enhanced performance and scalability and supports many new innovations such as native VPLS, flexible NetFlow, egress NetFlow, Cisco TrustSec, distributed policers, control plane policing, and comprehensive IPv6 features.
Multilayer Switch Feature Card 5
Supervisor Engine 2T features the Multilayer Switch Feature Card 5 (MSFC5), providing high-performance, multilayer switching and routing intelligence. Equipped with a high-performance processor, the MSFC5 runs both Layer 2 protocols and Layer 3 protocols on the dual-core CPU complex. These include routing protocol support, Layer 2 protocols (for example, Spanning Tree Protocol and VLAN Trunking Protocol), and security services.
The MSFC5 builds the Cisco Express Forwarding information base (FIB) table in software and then downloads this table to the hardware application-specific-integrated circuits (ASICs) on the PFC4 and Distributed Forwarding Card 4 (DFC4), if present on a module, which make the forwarding decisions for IP unicast and multicast traffic.
Features and Benefits details
This section provides details of scalability and performance capabilities of Supervisor Engine 2T and functions supported.
Tables 1 through 4 show the scalability, virtualization and security features for Supervisor Engine 2T.
Table 1. Scalability
Name
VS-S2T-10G
VS-S2T-10G-XL
IPv4 routing
In hardware
Up to 720 Mpps**
In hardware
Up to 720 Mpps**
IPv6 routing
In hardware
Up to 390 Mpps**
In hardware
Up to 390 Mpps**
L2 bridging
In hardware
Up to 720 Mpps**
In hardware
Up to 720 Mpps**
MPLS
MPLS in hardware to enable use of Layer 3 VPNs and EoMPLS tunneling. Up to 8192 VRFs with a total of up to 256K* forwarding entries per system.
MPLS in hardware to enable use of Layer 3 VPNs and EoMPLS tunneling. Up to 8192 VRFs with a total of up to 1024K forwarding entries per system.
VLAN
4K
4K
Bridge domains
16k
16k
VPLS
In hardware (Up to 390 Mpps**)
In hardware (Up to 390 Mpps**)
GRE
In hardware (Up to 390 Mpps**)
In hardware (Up to 390 Mpps**)
NAT
Hardware assisted
Hardware assisted
MAC entries
128k
128k
Routes
256K(IPv4)
128K (IPv6)
1024K (IPv4)
512K (IPv6)
Netflow entries
512K
1024K
Multicast routes
128K (IPv4)
128K (IPv6)
128K (IPv4)
128K (IPv6)
* 1K=1024.
** Requires fully populated 6513-E chassis with DFC4/DFC4XL
Table 2. QoS Features and Scalability
Feature
VS-S2T-10G
VS-S2T-10G-XL
Layer-3 classification and marking access control entries (ACEs)
64K shared for QOS / Security
256K shared for QOS/Security
Aggregate traffic rate-limiting policers
16348
16348
Flow-based rate-limiting method; number of rates
Per source address, destination address, or full flow; 64 rates
Per source address, destination address, or full flow; 64 rates
Cisco CAT6000-VS-S2T IOS ADVANCED IP SERVICES FULL ENCRYPT
S2TAIK9N-12250S
Cisco CAT6000-VS-S2T IOS ADVANCED IP SERVICES LAN ONLY NPE
S2TIBK9-12250SY
Cisco CAT6000-VS-S2T IOS IP BASE LAN ONLY FULL ENCRYPT
S2TIBK9N-12250SY
Cisco CAT6000-VS-S2T IOS IP BASE LAN ONLY NPE
S2TISK9-12250SY
Cisco CAT6000-VS-S2T IOS IP SERV LAN ONLY FULL ENCRYPT
S2TISK9N-12250SY
Cisco CAT6000-VS-S2T IOS IP SERV LAN ONLY NPE
S2TIB-12250SY
Cisco CAT6000-VS-S2T IOS IP BASE
S2TIS-12250SY
Cisco CAT6000-VS-S2T IOS IP SERV
Cisco and Partner Services
Enable the innovative, secure, intelligent edge in the Borderless Network Architecture using personalized services from Cisco and our partners. Through a discovery process that begins with understanding your business objectives, we help you integrate the new Cisco Catalyst 6500-C4 System into your architecture and incorporate network services onto that platform. Sharing knowledge and leading practices, we support your success every step of the way as you deploy, absorb, manage, and scale new technology. Choose from a flexible suite of support services designed to meet your business needs and help you maintain high-quality network performance while controlling operational costs. For additional information about Cisco services, visit http://www.cisco.com/go/services.
Warranty Coverage and Technical Service Options
The Cisco Catalyst 6500 C4 System comes with a Cisco 90-day hardware warranty. Adding a contract for a technical service offering such as Cisco SMARTnet® Service to your device coverage provides access to the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) and can provide a variety of hardware replacement options to meet critical business needs, updates for licensed OS software, and registered access to the extensive Cisco.com knowledge base and support tools.
Table 9 shows the Cisco technical services available for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 C4 System.
Table 9. Cisco Technical Services for Cisco Catalyst 6500 C4 System
Technical Services
Cisco SMARTnet Service
• Around-the-clock, global access to the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC)
• Unrestricted access to the extensive Cisco.com resources, communities, and tools
• Next-business-day, 8x5x4, 24x7x4, and 24x7x2 advance hardware replacement2 and onsite parts replacement and installation available
• Ongoing operating system software updates within the licensed feature set1
• Proactive diagnostics and real-time alerts on Smart Call Home enabled devices
Cisco Focused Technical Support Services
Three levels of premium, high-touch services are available:
• Cisco High-Touch Operations Management Service
• Cisco High-Touch Technical Support Service
• Cisco High-Touch Engineering Service
Valid Cisco SMARTnet or SP Base contracts on all network equipment are required.
Footnotes:
1. Cisco operating system updates include the following: maintenance releases, minor updates, and major updates within the licensed feature set.
2. Advance hardware replacement is available in various service-level combinations. For example, 8x5xNBD indicates that shipment will be initiated during the standard 8-hour business day, 5 days a week (the generally accepted business days within the relevant region), with next business day (NBD) delivery. Where NBD is not available, same day ship is provided. Restrictions apply; please review the appropriate service descriptions for details.
