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Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Virtual Switching Supervisor
Engine 720 with 10 Gigabit Ethernet Uplinks and New
Distributed Forwarding Card

PB423326

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 Catalyst 6500 Series Virtual Switching Supervisor Engine 720 with 10 Gigabit Ethernet

uplinks has a new forwarding engine that combines all the capabilities of its predecessor, the

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 720, with system virtualization and increased

throughput.

The Cisco Virtual Switching Supervisor Engine 720 with 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks includes the

following new features:

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The Cisco VSS 1440 system virtualization technology pools multiple Cisco Catalyst 6500

Series Switches into one virtual switch. This provides several benefits:

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Increases operational efficiency by simplifying the network

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Scales system bandwidth capacity to 1.4 Tbps by using Multichassis EtherChannel

(MEC)

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Boosts nonstop communications by way of interchassis failover and an EtherChannel

mechanism for link recovery

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Eases deployment by using existing multilayer switching architecture

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.