Cisco Catalyst 6500 Virtual Switching System 1440

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The Cisco® Catalyst® 6500 Series Virtual Switching Supervisor Engine 720 with 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks and IPv6 in hardware is an industry first. The new supervisor engine combines high-density uplinks, system virtualization, and increased throughput with scalable performance and a rich IP feature set. This supervisor engine is a key component of the Cisco VSS 1440 Virtual Switching System, enabling high availability, operational efficiency, and increased bandwidth with a greater ease of deployment.

• The Cisco VSS 1440 system virtualization technology pools multiple Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches into one virtual switch. This provides several benefits:

– Increases operational efficiency by simplifying the network

– Scales system bandwidth capacity to 1.4 Tbps by using Multichassis EtherChannel (MEC)

– Boosts nonstop communications by way of interchassis failover and an EtherChannel mechanism for link recovery

– Eases deployment by using existing multilayer switching architecture

• Two X2-based 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks are built into the supervisor engine, saving a slot in the chassis for additional integrated services or high-density chassis.

• All Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks of the Cisco Virtual Switching Supervisor Engine 720 can be active simultaneously, even for redundant systems (systems with dual supervisor engines in the chassis).

• The Cisco Virtual Switching Supervisor Engine 720 with 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks has a new policy feature card (PFC) that increases throughput to 82 Mpps. As a result, the system throughput increases to 450 Mpps for IPv4 traffic and 225 Mpps for IPv6 traffic.

• The Cisco Virtual Switching Supervisor Engine 720 offers a deterministic, sub-second failover. This results in faster switchover to a standby supervisor in a redundant configuration.

Table 1.

• Supports system virtualization through Cisco VSS 1440

• Supports all the functions that the DFC3B and DFC3BXL support

• Deployed in CEF720-based line cards such as WS-X6704-10GE, WS-X6724-SFP, WS-X6748-SFP, and WS-X6748-GE-TX.

Table 2 lists the supported combinations for the Distributed Forwarding Cards.

Table 2. Supported Combinations

Table 3 gives specifications of the distributed forwarding card.

Table 3. Specifications of Distributed Forwarding Card

Product Numbers

Table 4. Product Numbers

Minimum Software Requirements

Table 5. Minimum Software Requirements for New Chassis

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