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Catalyst 6500 Series Switches Installation Guide

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Chapter 1 Product Overview

Catalyst 6504-E Switch

The Catalyst 6504-E switch is a 4-slot horizontal chassis. Table 1-5 lists the features of the

Catalyst 6504-E switch chassis. Table 1-6 lists the specifications of the Catalyst 6504-E switch chassis.

Figure 1-5 shows the front view and Figure 1-6 shows the rear view of the Catalyst 6504-E switch.

Table 1-5 Catalyst 6504-E Switch Features

Feature Description

Chassis

• Four horizontal slots. Slots are numbered from 1 (top) to 4 (bottom).

Supervisor Engine

• Supports Supervisor Engine 32 and Supervisor Engine 720.

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Supervisor engines are installed in slot 1 and slot 2.

• The uplink ports are fully functional on the redundant supervisor engine

in standby mode.

Note Redundant supervisor engines must be configured identically.

Modules

• Supports up to three Catalyst 6500 series modules.

• Does not support the WS-C6500-SFM and WS-X6500-SFM2 Switch

Fabric Modules.

• Some Catalyst 6500 series modules may:

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Not be supported

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Require that you install a Supervisor Engine 720

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Have chassis slot restrictions

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Require a specific software release level

Check your software release notes for specific information.

Backplane Bandwidth

• 32 GBps shared bus.

• 720 GBps switch fabric.

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.

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