Cisco Catalyst 6513-E Switch Getting Started Guide

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series: Optimized for Wiring Closet Deployments

At-A-Glance

The Cisco ® Catalyst ® 6500 Series Switches offer an extremely high level of manageability, security, scalability, and investment protection, resulting in lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for wiring closet deployments.

Leading industry transitions in the wiring closet, the

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switching platform will be the basis for the Cisco Campus Communications Fabric

(CCF) going forward.

Timeline of Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Industry Leading Innovation

10/100/100 IPv6 in

Hardware

Power over

Ethernet

(IEEE 802.3af)

Software

Modularity

Application

Intelligence

Power over

Ethernet Plus*

(IEEE 802.3at)

Operational Manageability

App lic ation Inte m unications lligen ce

Non-Stop Com

Virt ua lizatio n

Integrated Security

Unified Netw ork Ser vices

Operational Manageability

The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series offers tools to help you easily monitor and manage your network: x

Easy configuration: Cisco Smartports, Cisco IOS ® Software x

AutoQoS, and Cisco AutoSecure for simplified autoprovisioning

Embedded Event Manager (EEM) and Smart Call Home for automatic management and service notifications

Right Size Solution at the Right Price

The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series leads innovation: x

Pioneering multigigabit Deep Packet Inspection in hardware x for security and compliance

Performance optimized for next-generation applications x x such as video and Telepresence

Deployment flexibility and backward compatibility

Rich baseline offering with manageability, security, and scalability

The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series protects your investment: x x Price optimized for typical deployments of 96 or more ports

Minimal incremental costs to enable features over base offering x

Low operational expenses, and improved productivity with x automanagement and new services

Long lifecycle, resulting in low price per port per year x x

Bundles are optimized for the wiring closet:

Discounts of up to 28 percent on bundles

Discounts of up to 60 percent on Cisco SMARTnet ® contracts for bundles

service

1.0

0.8

0.6

0.4

0.2

0.0

1.8

1.6

1.4

1.2

Savings with Cisco Catalyst 6500 in the Wiring Closet

Year 1

New Services

Year 2 Year 3

Operational Savings

Year 4 Year 5

Downtime Reduction

Price Comparison at Purchase and over Lifetime

Price per Port

Cisco Catalyst 6500

Price per Port per Year

Low-End Platform

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x

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP): LLDP Media Endpoint

Discovery (LLDP-MED) and Cisco Discovery Protocol for x

intelligent management of media devices

Integrated NetFlow for localized traffic monitoring and security x

Encapsulated Remote Switched Port Analyzer (ERSPAN) for remote network analysis (such as voice traffic recording and monitoring) and troubleshooting

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series: Optimized for Wiring Closet Deployments

At-A-Glance

Application Intelligence and Integrated Security

The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series offers pervasive application intelligence and integrated security on the new Cisco Catalyst

6500 Supervisor Engine 32 PISA, facilitating the following unique capabilities to manage network traffic: x x x

Web application quality of service (QoS)

Peer-to-peer application control

Simple classification of Layer 4 through 7 packets, including x x x rich media applications

Programmability for customized user-defined application filters

Full packet length inspection to filter day-zero attacks

Repository of well-known application and security filters provided by Cisco

Supervisor Engine 32 PISA with 8x1GE OR 2x10GE Uplinks lists (ACLs) with dedicated ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) to protect network infrastructure from x security threats

Cisco Integrated Security Toolkit to mitigate man-in-themiddle attacks

Nonstop Communications

The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series offers high-availability and network-resiliency features to maximize uptime, especially because the wiring closet is the first single point of potential failure for business-critical and media applications: x Maximum redundant components for reduced downtime: x

Cisco IOS Software Modularity for fault containment

Nonstop Forwarding/Stateful Switchover (NSF/SSO) for x stateful subsecond recovery in Layer 2 and 3 environments

Integrated Generic Online Diagnostics (GOLD) for automated system monitoring x x x Per-port buffering to support rich media applications such as x

Cisco TelePresence

Range of dual-voltage power supplies with multiple indepenx dent inputs for scalability

High Power over Ethernet (PoE) scalability with support for

943 Class 2 or 423 Class 3 IEEE802.3af devices, including IP x x phones, access points, and security cameras

Field-upgradable PoE daughter cards (WS-F6K-48-AF) for flexibility

Power monitoring and limiting for efficient use of power

Enhanced PoE support for devices such as Cisco Aironet ®

1250 Series Access Point (IEEE802.11n access point) on all

10/100/1000 line cards

System with components that will be compatible with future versions to support next-generation IEEE802.3at PoE (30W per port) devices

High availability with modular operating system; system redundancy

“We wanted to have a single network for easier management, control, and economies of scale. At the same time, we needed the ability to set up logical walls so we don’t have security concerns. The Cisco solution (Cisco Catalyst 6500

Supervisor Engine 32) lets us do both.”

– Rick Haverty, director of information technology at the University of Rochester Medical Center

“We’ve always been able to be on the cutting edge of

productivity because we have invested wisely in our networking infrastructure ... The Cisco Catalyst 6500-E Switches represent the flagship switching platform for Cisco, where a lot of the innovations begin. And when advancements such as the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 32 PISA are introduced, we can upgrade easily and cost-effectively.”

– Network architect, Biopharma company testing the Cisco

Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 32 PISA

The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series also offers foundational security features for compliance-demanding environments, including: x Comprehensive identity-based services and Cisco Network x

Admission Control (NAC) to enforce access privileges

Hardware-based control-plane rate limiters and policers,

Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (URPF), and access control

Easy configuration; easy automanagement with EEM and Smart Call Home

High security with Deep

Packet Inspection

Modularity for scalability and flexibility

Unified Network Access

The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series platform provides enhanced services to deploy converged networks: x Consistent services and policies for data, voice, video, and x wireless applications

IPv4, IPv6, and IP Multicast in hardware for performance

Virtualization

The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series provides virtualization to

partition the network into independent, secure environments: x

Access control in the wiring closet to provide a complete virtualization solution in the enterprise x x Application- or user-based classification for flexibility in partitioning

Generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnels, Multi-Virtual

Route Forwarding (Multi-VRF), and Multiprotocol Label

Switching (MPLS) VPNs to provide path isolation

In summary, the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switching platform continues to provide technical innovation with operational manageability, application intelligence, integrated security, nonstop communications, unified network access, and virtualization to support evolving enterprise traffic. Novel features of the platform such as innovation protection and upgradability, long lifecycle, and price optimization for high-port-density configurations make it a compelling value proposition for the wiring closet.

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