The 9-slot Cisco Catalyst 6509-E Switch provides high port densities that are ideal for many wiring closet distribution and core network as well as data center deployments. The Cisco Catalyst 6509-E supports Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series end-to-end operational consistency benefits.

• Scalable Performance
• Support large numbers of IEEE 802.3af PoE devices
• Ideal for enterprises and service providers seeking to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Clock and VTT Modules: Two replaceable clock modules (CLK-7600=) provide clocking signals to the EOBC channel and the switching bus.
• The Cisco Catalyst 6509-E provides maximum uptime with redundancy and rapid (1 to 3 seconds) stateful failover across supervisor engines.
• The Cisco Catalyst 6509-E supports both Cisco Catalyst OS and Cisco IOS Software
• Provides integrated IP Communications throughout all Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series platforms
• Supports up to eight Catalyst 6500 series modules
• WS-C6500-SFM and WS-X6500-SFM2 Switch Fabric Modules must be installed in slot 5 or slot 6

Backplane Bandwidth:

• 32 GBps shared bus
• 720 GBps switch fabric

Supervisor Engines:

• Supervisor Engine 1 and Supervisor Engine 2 are installed in slot 1 or slot 2
• Supervisor Engine 32 and Supervisor Engine 720 are installed in slot 5 or slot 6

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Modules Supported: Supervisor engines

• Fast Ethernet modules (with IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet [PoE])
• Gigabit Ethernet modules (with IEEE 802.3af PoE)
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet modules
• Flex WAN modules
• Shared Port Adaptors/SPA Interface Processors
• Multi-Gigabit services modules (content services firewall intrusion detection IP Security [IPSec] VPN network analysis and Secure Sockets Layer [SSL] acceleration)