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Cisco Catalyst 6509 Enhanced

Catalyst 6509 Chassis, 9-slot, 14RU, Spare

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Cisco introduces the Cisco® Catalyst® 6500 Enhanced Series Chassis (6500-E Series) delivering up to 2 terabits per second of system bandwidth capacity and 80 Gbps of per-slot bandwidth. In a system configured for VSS, this translates to a system capacity of 4 Tbps. The Cisco® Catalyst® 6500 Enhanced Series Chassis will be capable of delivering up to 180 Gbps of per-slot bandwidth with a system capacity of up to 4 terabits per second. A system configured for VSS will be capable of delivering up to 8 Tbps of system bandwidth.

The Cisco Catalyst 6500-E Series Switch offers the broadest range of interface modules with industry-leading performance and advanced feature integration. The Cisco Catalyst 6500-E Series Switch also offers high port densities and comes in 3-, 4-, 6-, 9, 9-Vertical, and 13-slot versions that make it ideal for a range of deployment scenarios.

The Cisco Catalyst 6500-E Series Chassis provides superior investment protection by supporting multiple generations of products in the same chassis, lowering the total cost of ownership. The Cisco Catalyst 6500-E Series Chassis (Figure 1) supports all the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engines up to and including the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 2T, and associated LAN, WAN, and services modules.



The 9- slot Catalyst 6509 chassis provides intermediate port densities, ideal for many wiring closet and core network deployments.



Key Features:



- Supports all Catalyst 6500 modules, including all:

- Supervisor engines

- Switch fabric modules

- Fast Ethernet modules

- Gigabit Ethernet modules

- 10 Gigabit Ethernet modules

- Voice modules

- Flex Wan Modules

- ATM modules

- Multi Gigabit services modules (content services ,firewall, intrusion detection, IPSec/VPN, network analysis, and SSL acceleration)

- Supports both CatOS and IOS software.
Depth462 mm
Height622 mm
Operating temperature (T-T)0 - 40 °C
SafetyUL 60950 Second Edition, CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950 Second Edition, EN 60950 Second Edition, IEC 60950 Second Edition, AS/NZS 60950
Weight27215 g
Width445 mm