Cisco Catalyst 6504-E Switch Chassis

The Cisco Catalyst WS-C6504-E Chassis is a 320-Gbps, small form factor, high-performance chassis switch. With the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 720, it can deliver up to 80 Gbps of switching capacity per slot. The 6504-E Catalyst switch offers the broadest range of interface modules with industry-leading performance and advanced feature integration.

• 64 chassis MAC addresses
• Supports up to three Catalyst 6500 series modules
• Backplane Bandwidth: 32 GBps shared bus
• 720 GBps switch fabric
• Mean time between failure (MTBF): 7 years for system configuration
• The Catalyst 6504-E Chassis Switch can be configured two ways-with a single supervisor engine and up to three line cards, or with dual supervisor engines and up to two line cards.
• Supervisor Engines Supported: Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 720, 720-3B, 720-3BXL, 32-GE-3B, and 32-10GE-3BXL

Clock and VTT module:

• One replaceable clock module (CLK-7600=) provides clocking signals to the EOBC channel and the switching bus
• Non-replaceable voltage termination (VTT) module provides reference voltage for bus signals

Minimum Software Release:

• Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2.18SXE
• Cisco Catalyst OS 8.4.2