Module Interoperability

All four modules are interoperable with the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Virtual Switching Supervisor Engine 720 with 10GE uplinks and the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 720 and provide 40-Gbps connection to the switch fabric. Building on the award-winning Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series, these 10 Gigabit Ethernet modules are backward compatible with all existing Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series line cards and services modules, enabling enterprises and service providers to offer new Layer 2 through 7 services and network capabilities to increase revenue and user productivity without the need for major equipment upgrades.

The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series 10 Gigabit Ethernet modules are designed for deployment in the distribution and core of the campus and data center for traffic aggregation, or for interbuilding, points of presence (POPs), WAN edge, and metropolitan area network (MAN) connections. These modules support IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation and Cisco^® distributed EtherChannel technology for fault-tolerant connectivity and bandwidth scalability of up to 80 Gbps per EtherChannel connection using any 8 ports in the same chassis. In addition, they support hardware-based multicast replication, quality of service (QoS), access control lists (ACLs), jumbo frames, and low latency to enable secure and predictable performance for bandwidth-intensive applications.