Cisco Catalyst 6503-E Switch

Cisco Catalyst 6503-E Video Datasheet

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Catalyst 6503-E Switch is ideally suited for secure data centers, remote access, e-commerce, and converged network solutions. (4:48 min)

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The new 3-slot Cisco Catalyst 6503-E Switch chassis offers a compact 4 rack-unit height that is ideally suited for multi-Gbps secure data centers, remote access, e-commerce, and converged network solutions. The Cisco Catalyst 6503-E supports Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series end-to-end operational consistency benefits.

Important Features
Supports all Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series modules, including:

• Supervisor engines
• Fast Ethernet modules (with IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet [PoE])
• Gigabit Ethernet modules (with IEEE 802.3af PoE)
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet modules
• Flex WAN modules
• Shared Port Adaptors/SPA Interface Processors
• Multi-Gigabit services modules (wireless, network analysis, and security)

The Cisco Catalyst 6503-E supports both Cisco Catalyst OS and Cisco IOS Software.

The Cisco Catalyst 6503-E provides maximum uptime with redundancy and rapid (1 to 3 seconds) stateful failover across supervisor engines. It provides support for modular Cisco IOS Software to minimize unplanned downtime through self-healing processes and simplifies software changes through subsystem in-service software upgrades.