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Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series 16-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet
Module

PB451702

Cisco

announces a new 16-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet module (Figure 1) for the Cisco

Catalyst

6500 Series. The 16-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet module doubles the 10 Gigabit

Ethernet density on the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series, providing up to 130 ports of 10

Gigabit Ethernet in a single Cisco Catalyst 6500 chassis. It is ideal for deployment in the

LAN campus aggregation or data center access, where fanout and port density are

important. The new 16-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet module complements the existing

integrated services on the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series, enabling customers to build a

scalable, resilient, and manageable data center to meet their growing business needs to

consolidate and virtualize servers and storage to maximize resource utilization and

reduce capital expenses.

Figure 1. Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series 16-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Module

Product Overview

There are two versions of the Cisco Catalyst 6500 16-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet module:

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16-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet module with Distributed Forwarding Card 3C (DFC3C)

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16-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet module with Distributed Forwarding Card 3CXL (DFC3CXL)

Both modules contain the WS-X6716-10GE base board and a distributed forwarding card. See

Table 1 for the differences between the DFC3C version and the DFC3CXL version. The base

module supports up to 16 pluggable X2 optics and has a 40-Gbps connection to the fabric and is

therefore 4:1 oversubscribed. The distributed forwarding card provides hardware-based multicast

replication, NetFlow, and MAC learning and forwards traffic at 48 Mpps. Besides increased port

density, the 16-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet module has reduced power consumption. It uses half the

power consumption per port compared to the 8-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet module, providing

substantial power savings to the customer. The 16-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet module can operate in

a mix of oversubscription mode and performance mode, providing maximum flexibility for the

customer to connect some ports to servers and some ports to wiring closet uplinks. When