DESCRIPTION

The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 2T is the addition to the family of supervisor engines. The Supervisor Engine 2T is designed to deliver higher performance, better scalability, and enhanced hardware-enabled features. Supervisor Engine 2T integrates a high-performance 2-Terabit crossbar switch fabric that enables 80 Gbps switching capacity per slot on all Cisco Catalyst 6500 E-series chassis. The forwarding engine on Supervisor Engine 2T is capable of delivering high-performance forwarding for Layer 2 and Layer 3 services. Supervisor Engine 2T delivers more in the areas of security, quality of service (QoS), virtualization, and manageability. The rich feature set of Supervisor Engine 2T enhances applications such as traditional IP forwarding, Layer 2 and Layer 3 Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPNs, and VPLS.

PRODUCT FEATURES

• Security
  Support for Cisco TrustSec, CTS, providing MacSec encryption and role-based ACL. Providing control plane policing to address denial of service attacks.
• Virtualization
  Native support for VPLS, as well as enhancements such as VPN-aware NAT, VPN statistics, and VPN netflow as important features needed for deployment of network virtualization.
• Netflow application monitoring
  Supervisor Engine 2T supports enhanced application monitoring such as flexible and sampled netflow for intelligent and scalable application monitoring.