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 is a key component of the Cisco VSS 1440 Virtual Switching System and enables high availability, operational efficiency, and increased bandwidth with great ease of deployment. The Cisco 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. While introducing new features, the Cisco Virtual Switching Supervisor Engine 720 with 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks also continues to provide investment protection to Cisco customers by supporting all three generations of Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series interfaces and services modules. In addition, the Cisco Virtual Switching Supervisor Engine 720 with 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks continues to offer a hardware-based feature set that enables applications such as traditional IP forwarding, Layer 2 and Layer 3 Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPNs, and Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS) with quality of service (QoS) and security features.
• Two X2-based 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, ideal for high-density access and aggregation areas such as data center, LAN campus, and backbone areas.
• Two Gigabit Ethernet Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) ports and one 10/100/1000 gigabit port for additional flexibility. All the links in the Cisco Virtual Switching Supervisor Engine 720 can be active simultaneously even in the redundant configurations, thereby increasing the supervisor throughput from 48 to 82 Mpps. This improves total system performance to 450 Mpps for IPv4 traffic and 225 Mpps for IPv6 traffic.
• Additional fabric capabilities offering subsecond failover rates, allowing faster switchover to a standby supervisor. The Cisco Virtual Switching Supervisor Engine 720 with 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks is supported on Cisco IOS® Software.
• Chassis Compatibility- Cisco 6503, 6503-E, 6404-E, 6506, 6506-E, 6509, 6509-E, 6509-NEB, 6509-NEB-A, 6513 and Cisco 7603, 7606, OSR-7609, 7609, 7613Uplinks - 2-SFP based gigabit, 1-10/100/100 and 2-10Gb
• Supports 1GB DRAM for route the processor and 1GB DRAM for the switch processor
• Layer 3 routing protocols, Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGPv4), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol(EIGRP), Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Distributed FIB Switching, Cisco Discovery Protocol, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
• Multicast forwarding, Protocol independent Multicast (PIM) (both sparse and dense mode), (S,G), (*,G), Bidirectional PIM in hardware
• Comprehensive MPLS support
• Cisco Group Management Protocol and Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) snooping
• MPLS-MPLS enables use of layer 3 VPNs and EoMPLS tunneling. Up to 1024 VRFs with total of up to 1,000,000 routes per systemIPv4 Routing -Up to 450 Mpps (in hardware)
• IPv6 Routing-Up to 225 Mpps (in hardware)
• L2 Bridging-Up to 450 Mpps (in hardware)
• Routes IPv4/IPv6-1,000,000/500,000
• MAC entries-96,000
• Ingress port or VLAN and egress VLAN or Layer-3 port
• Netflow Entries-256,000
• 32K dedicated for QoS
• CIR, PIR
• IEEE 802.1x and 802.1x
• ACL Entries-32 K
• Reflexive ACLs-128K
• Virtual Switching System (VSS)
• Fast software upgrade
• Route Processor Redundancy+ (RPR+)
• Stateful Switchover + Nonstop Forwarding (SSO + NSF)
• Online insertion and removal (OIR) hot swap
• Fast fabric switchover
• E and Non-E Chassis Requires 2500W AC or DC Power Supply
• Non E Chassis Requires High speed fan
• Power Consumption (includes PFC3BXL, MSFC3): 7.82A (328W)
• Operating/ Storage temp: 32° to 104°F (0° to 40°C)/-40° to 167°F (-40° to 75°C)
• Operating/Storage relative humidity-10% - 90%, noncondensing/ 10% - 95%, noncondensing
• 1.6 x 15.3 x 16.3 in. (4.0 x 37.9 x 40.3 cm)
• 11.5 lb