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Catalyst 6500 Series Switch SIP, SSC, and SPA Hardware Installation Guide
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Catalyst 6500 Series Switch SPA Overview
This chapter describes the shared port adapters (SPAs) that are supported on the Catalyst 6500 Series
switch and contains the following sections:
• SPA Support, page 3-2
• Bandwidth Oversubscription, page 3-3
• 2-Port and 4-Port Channelized T3 SPA Overview, page 3-4
• 2-Port and 4-Port Clear Channel T3/E3 SPA Overview, page 3-6
• 8-Port Channelized T1/E1 SPA Overview, page 3-8
• 1-Port Channelized STM-1/OC-3 SPA Overview, page 3-10
• 2-Port and 4-Port OC-3c/STM-1 ATM SPA Overview, page 3-13
• 2-Port and 4-Port OC-3c/STM-1 POS SPA Overview, page 3-14
• 1-Port OC-12c/STM-4 ATM SPA Overview, page 3-18
• 1-Port OC-12c/STM-4 POS SPA Overview, page 3-21
• 1-Port OC-48c/STM-16 ATM SPA Overview, page 3-24
• 2-Port OC-48 POS/RPR SPA Overview, page 3-25
• 1-Port OC-192c/STM-64 POS/RPR SPA Overview, page 3-27
• 1-Port OC-192c/STM-64 POS/RPR XFP SPA Overview, page 3-31
• 1-Port OC-192c/STM-64 POS/RPR VSR Optics SPA Overview, page 3-36
• 4-Port and 8-Port Fast Ethernet SPA Overview, page 3-39
• 1-Port 10-Gigabit Ethernet SPA Overview, page 3-41
• 2-Port Gigabit Ethernet SPA Overview, page 3-43
• 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet SPA Overview, page 3-49
• 10-Port Gigabit Ethernet SPA Overview, page 3-53
• IPSec VPN SPA Overview, page 3-57