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Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine Guide
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APPENDIX
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Pluggable Transceivers
Revised: July 2011 
This appendix provides pointers and references for the pluggable optical and copper transceivers that are 
supported on the Catalyst
 6500 series supervisor engine uplink ports. 
Table A-1 lists the supervisor engine models and the transceiver types and quantities that they support.
Ta b l e  A-1 Supervisor Engine Transceiver Support 
Supervisor Engine Number of Ports 
Supporting Transceivers
Transceiver Type Supported
Supervisor Engine 2  
(all models)
2 GBIC
Supervisor Engine 32  
(WS-SUP32-GE-3B and 
WS-S32-GE-PISA only)
8 SFP
Supervisor Engine 32 
(WS-SUP32-10GE-3B and 
WS-S32-10GE-PISA only)
2 XENPAK
Supervisor Engine 720 
(WS-SUP720, WS-SUP720-3B, 
and WS-SUP720-3BXL)
2 SFP
Supervisor Engine 720-10GE 
(VS-S720-10G-3C and 
VS-S720-10G-3CXL)
4 X2 or SFP+ (2 ports)
1
SFP (2 ports)
1. AnOneX Converter Module (CVR-X2-SFP) is required to install an SFP+ tranceiver in an X2 socket.
Supervisor Engine 2T 
(VS-S2T-10G and 
VS-S2T-10GXL)
5 X2 (2 ports)
SFP (3 ports)