Cisco Catalyst 6900 Series Ethernet Interface Module for Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches Data Sheet

Product Overview

The Cisco^® Catalyst^® 6500 Series Switches offer a variety of 10 Gigabit Ethernet modules to serve different needs in the campus and data center for enterprise, commercial, and service provider customers. The Cisco Catalyst 6900 Series 8-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber Module is the first 10 Gigabit Ethernet Module for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch that supports Cisco TrustSec and Layer 2 encryption in hardware to enable IEEE 802.1ae (MACSec) encryption for Role-Based Access Control (RBACL) functionality. The module has two 40 Gbps connections (for a total of 80 Gbps) to the 2Tbps switch fabric of the Supervisor Engine 2T and therefore is able to deliver 10 Gigabit performance on all 8 ports for larger than 128 bytes size packets with no oversubscription. The new Cisco Catalyst 6900 Series 8-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber module supports Virtual Switch Link (VSL) on all 8 ports. The Cisco Catalyst 6900 Series 8-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber Module supports pluggable X2 optics, providing operational distances of up to 80 km over single-mode fiber and 300m over multimode fiber allowing for deployment in various types of networking environments. The Cisco Catalyst 6900 Series 8-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber Module is only compatible with the new Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 2T (VS-S2T-10G or VS-S2T-10G-XL), enabling the system to deliver three times the performance and four times the scalability for Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches in comparison to the previous generation.

The new Cisco Catalyst 6900 Series 8-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber module is designed for deployment in the distribution and core of the campus and data center for traffic aggregation in a network requiring security, manageability, virtualization, application performance, and video. With its large 256 MB packet buffers per port, no oversubscription, and distributed forwarding with high scalability, the new Cisco Catalyst 6900 Series 8-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber module is able to deliver secure and predictable performance for bandwidth-intensive applications such as market data feeds in the financial vertical or video broadcast in campus networks.

The 8-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber Module (Figure 1) provides up to 88 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber ports in a single Cisco Catalyst 6513-E chassis and 176 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a Cisco Catalyst 6500 Virtual Switching System (VSS) 4T.

For more information, see the white paper discussing 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching for enterprises at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_white_paper0900aecd802a648b.shtml.

Main Features and Benefits

Table 1 summarizes the primary features and benefits of the Cisco Catalyst 6900 Series 8-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber Module.

Table 1.       Cisco Catalyst 6900 Series 8-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber Module Primary Features

Table 2 summarizes pluggable optics supported on the Cisco Catalyst 6900 Series 8-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber Module.

Table 2.       Pluggable Optics for Cisco Catalyst 6900 Series 8-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber Module

For more information about most up to date EOS/EOL information on Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches compatible transceivers, visit http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps5455/prod_eol_notices_list.html.

Product Specifications

Table 3 lists product specifications of the Cisco Catalyst 6900 Series 8-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber Module.

Table 3.       Product Specifications

Ordering Information

Table 4 gives ordering information.

Table 4.       Part Numbers for Ordering

Note:     

●   8-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber Module:

◦     WS-X6908-10G-2T ships with WS-X6908-10GE and WS-F6K-DFC4-E.

◦     WS-X6908-10G-2TXL ships with WS-X6908-10GE and WS-F6K-DFC4-EXL.

◦     The front panel of these modules is labeled:

WS-X6908-10GE-2T or

WS-X6908-10GE-2TXL if it is XL version

◦     Cisco IOS^® Software commands will display WS-X6908-10GE with either WS-F6K-DFC4-E or WS-F6K-DFC4-EXL for XL version.

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Warranty Coverage and Technical Service Options

The Cisco Catalyst 6500 System comes with a Cisco 90-day hardware warranty. Adding a contract for a technical service offering such as Cisco SMARTnet^® Service to your device coverage provides access to the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) and can provide a variety of hardware replacement options to meet critical business needs, updates for licensed OS software, and registered access to the extensive Cisco.com knowledge base and support tools.

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For information about Cisco Technical Services, go to http://www.cisco.com/go/ts.

Table 5 shows the Cisco technical services available for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 System.

Table 5.       Cisco Technical Services for Cisco Catalyst 6500 System

For More Information

For more information about Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches, visit http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/index.html or contact your local account representative.