WS-C6503-E-FWM-K9

• Supervisor engines are installed in slot 1 and slot 2
• Supports up to two Catalyst 6500 series modules
• Does not support the WS-C6500-SFM and WS-X6500-SFM2 Switch Fabric Modules
• The Cisco Catalyst 6503-E supports both Cisco Catalyst OS and Cisco IOS Software
• The Cisco Catalyst 6503-E provides maximum uptime with redundancy and rapid (1 to 3 seconds) stateful failover across supervisor engines.
• Supports one or two power supplies

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

Firewall Services Module feature:

• Intelligent Network Services
• Core Stateful Firewall Services
• Service Virtualization (Multiple Security Context Mode)
• Inspection Engines
• Application Inspection Control
• System Management
• Logging/Monitoring

Firewall Services Module Platform Performance and Capacities:

• Performance:

• 5.5 Gbps of throughput per FWSM
• Up to 4 FWSMs (20 Gbps) per Cisco Catalyst 6500 chassis
• 2.8 Mpps
• 1 million concurrent connections
• 100,000 connection setups and teardowns per second
• 256,000 concurrent NAT and 256,000 concurrent PAT translations
• Jumbo Ethernet packets (8500 bytes) supported

• VLAN Interfaces:

• 1000 total per FWSM
• 256 VLANs per security context in routed mode
• 8 VLAN pairs per security context in transparent mode

• ACLs:

• Up to 80,000 ACLs

• Virtual Firewalls (security contexts):

• 20, 50, 100, and 250 virtual firewall licenses
• 2 virtual firewalls and 1 administrative context are provided for testing purposes

Supervisor Engine 720 Features:

• Enables new applications and services with h/w accelerated IPv6, MPLS, GRE and NAT
• 720 Gbps switch fabric backplane with a new routing and forwarding engine, including a third generation policy feature card (PFC3)
• centralized forwarding (CEF) at 48Mpps/720Gbps, accelerated CEF at 400Mpps (peak) /720Gbps and, distributed forwarding (dCEF) 400Mpps (sustained)/720Gbps