1 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. NIX Press Conference Catalyst 6500 Innovation Through Evolution 10GbE Tomáš Kupka, Systems Engineering Manager

222 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Agenda Catalyst 6500 Innovation Through Evolution Benefits of Cisco’s 10GbE solution Applications of 10 Gigabit Ethernet

333 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Catalyst 6500 Technology Strategy Performance Application Delivery Intelligent Services IP Communications Evolutionary Infrastructure Investment Protection Innovation

444 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Catalyst 6500 today Catalyst 6500 delivers innovations in the core, integrated datacenter, and the wiring closet through: Evolutionary Infrastructure – New Modules for Every Catalyst 6500 Generation extending investment protection: New Supervisor 720, non- blocking 10GbE, 16 port 1GbE, 48 port 10/100/1000 Intelligent Services – Accelerated IP Services Delivered: IPv6, MPLS, NAT, GRE, Enhanced Operational Management and more Performance and Application Delivery – 400Mpps over a 720Gbps Switch fabric with higher performance and density 10GbE and GbE, Enables Gigabit Everywhere Enables New Catalyst 6500 deployments for the next 8 to 10 years

555 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Catalyst 6500 Delivers Innovations Core -- Integrated Datacenter -- Wiring closet Innovation: 50+ Patents 11 New ASICs 8 New Modules Proven Distributed Forwarding Architecture Extension using 720Gbps Switch Fabric New S/W Features, Protocols Enabled with more in the Future Compatible with all existing Interfaces and Services Modules

666 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Agenda Catalyst 6500 Innovation Through Evolution Benefits of Cisco’s 10GbE solution Applications of 10 Gigabit Ethernet

777 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Benefits of Cisco’s 10 Gigabit Ethernet Solution Market leader: 81.3% port market share today (Q3CY04, Dell’Oro) Field proven: Over ports shipped to date. Wide deployment: Deployed in National Laboratories, Service Providers, Government, Universities, Financial Institutions, High-Tech Firms, Healthcare Industry, Manufacturing Industry,.com’s Investment Protection: Supported in market leading Catalyst 6500 chassis Intelligent Services: Support IPv6, MPLS, jumbo frames and other L4-7 services Price/Performance Leader: $9000 list per port of LR or LX4, $5600 list per port of CX4 (price includes optics)

888 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Network World Public Tests Proclaim the Catalyst 6500 “Best Product of the Year” March 2004 Cat 6500 delivers World Class Performanc e at Lowest TCO

999 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Network World Public Tests Proclaim “Cisco's Catalyst 6500 Raises The Stakes” Catalyst 6500 Optimized for HPC Deployments Source: March 2004http:// Latency and Jitter Data: 20 Gigabit interfaces and 10GbE backbone for Foundry MG8 and Cisco Cat 6500

10 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Catalyst 6500 Performance Highlights - GbE and 10GbE Performance 407Mpps IPv4 aggregate performance407Mpps IPv4 aggregate performance 230Mpps IPv6 aggregate performance230Mpps IPv6 aggregate performance 10,000 line ACL at line rate performance10,000 line ACL at line rate performance 425,000 S,G mroutes using Bidirectional PIM multicast routing425,000 S,G mroutes using Bidirectional PIM multicast routing 3 generation of interface cards interoperate in the same chassis3 generation of interface cards interoperate in the same chassis “EANTC extensively tested Cisco’s Catalyst 6500 next generation line cards. They showed the expected performance values, confirming Cisco’s claims for switching speed, scalability and investment protection.”

11 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Agenda Catalyst 6500 Innovation Through Evolution Benefits of Cisco’s 10GbE solution Applications of 10 Gigabit Ethernet

12 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. 10 Gigabit Ethernet Moving to Mainstream Applications Higher Density Better Performance 10 GbE Developments: Lower Price/port 10GbE over MMF and Cu Lower Price/port + 10/100/1000 Development: server farm: default NIC desktop: stackable + Market Needs Core Distribution Uplinks Server Farms Intra-Pop IDC Enterprise SP Today’s 10 GbE Applications:

13 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Today’s 10 Gigabit Ethernet Application: Service Provider Core at POPs and COs 10GE 10 GbE core Aggregates OC-12 or faster High-speed Core and Internet Data Center Connects for Service Providers Application: Aggregation of OC-12 and OC-48 POS links Benefits: Bandwidth scalability, lower cost of ownership POP A C6500/7600 POP B 10 GbE core

14 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Today’s 10 Gigabit Ethernet Application: National Research Networks Supervisor 720 enables high performance IPv6, MPLS, and Multicast VPNs– Critical Features for advanced research networks 10 Gbps Long haul and DWDM Interconnection across the country Rich advanced IP Services enabling collaborative development and advanced network deployments

15 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Today’s 10 Gigabit Ethernet Application: High Speed Data Center Connection 10GbE Core Building ACore Building B Data Center A Data Center B 10GbE to provide Gigabit Ethernet aggregation and connection to Server Farms Applications: Video-Conferencing, IP TV, Information Sharing Benefits: Scalable network for efficient communication and quick roll out of future applications. Video conferencing 10GbE GbE

16 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Today’s 10 Gigabit Ethernet Application: 10GbE High Performance Computing Enabling High Performance Clusters of Hundreds of Servers per Catalyst 6500 Cluster of Clusters or ‘GRIDs’ Interconnected by wire-rate 10GbE Long Haul DWDM with Cisco ONS Products for Collaborative Environments 256K Route Support for iBGP Inter-Cluster Connections Supervisor x 10GbE / 4x 10GbE 16 x GbE 48 x 10/100/1000 Long Haul 10GbE DWDM GRID and Cluster Computing

17 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. DWDM 10 Gigabit Ethernet for Inter-campus connection 10 GbE in the MAN (Dark Fiber) ILEC/CLEC/SP IXC WAN Transport Network Cisco End-to-End, Integrated Solutions Enterprise Intelligent Services 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Layer 2/3/4-7 Intelligence Security: Firewall Intrusion detection Access lists QoS: Application recognition Packet classification Traffic marking Traffic policing Congestion management Bandwidth rate limiting Content Switching: Server load balancing SSL encryption Jumbo frames 10 Gigabit Ethernet for Core, Distribution, Data center, and campus uplinks 10 GbE in the Core and for GigE aggregation

18 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Flagship Catalyst 6500 Multilayer Switch Evolution and Innovation – Long Deployment Lifecycles Performance and Application Delivery 400Mpps / 720Gbps System 10GbE and GbE Aggregation Unparalleled Deployment Flexibility 400Mpps / 720Gbps System 10GbE and GbE Aggregation Unparalleled Deployment Flexibility Future Proof Architecture Fully Backwards Compatible Operational Consistency Future Proof Architecture Fully Backwards Compatible Operational Consistency Evolutionary Infrastructure Advanced IP Services Integrated Services Modules Enhanced Manageability Advanced IP Services Integrated Services Modules Enhanced Manageability IP Communications Innovation

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