Every month we pick a component to focus on and this month, to start the new year out, we’ve chosen the Cisco WS-F6700-DFC3CXL. Why do we love this product? This distributed forwarding card increases your switching performance considerably and comes with the WS-X6708-10G-3CXL. With a whopping 1,000,000 IPv4 routes and 256,000 NetFlow entries, it will undoubtedly be a significant asset to your system’s scalability. The WS-F6700-DFC3CXL comes with 1 GB DRAM of default memory too!
The WS-F6700-DFC3CXL isn’t the only daughter card option. The Cisco WS-F6700-DFC3A, WS-F6700-DFC3B, WS-F6700-DFC3BXL, and WS-F6700-DFC3C are also available to give that system a boost, but the WS-F6700-DFC3XL is the grand-daddy, or perhaps grand-daughter, of daughter card options as the WS-F6700-DFC3C offers only 128,000 IPv6 routes compared to the WS-F6700-DFC3XL’s 500,000.
As a replacement part for the now obsolete WS-F6700-DFC3A, the Catalyst 6500 Distributed Forwarding Card-3CXL for WS-X67xx is a great investment for the future.