C6800-32P10G Cisco Catalyst 6800 32-Port 10GE Module

The C6800-32P10G is the Cisco Catalyst 6800 32-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet fiber module with dual integrated DFC4. It comes with factory-installed DFC4-E daughter cards (the XL variant uses DFC4-EXL) and works with Supervisor Engine 2T and 2TXL. The 32 ports are numbered TenGigabitEthernet 1 to 32 and split into four banks of eight.

The default mode is oversubscribed and uses every port. Switching a bank of eight ports to performance mode halves the usable ports, provides line rate and doubles their buffers. Port buffers are 250 MB egress and 1.2 MB ingress in oversubscribed mode, and 500 MB egress and 2.5 MB ingress in performance mode.

Backplane bandwidth is 160 Gbps in a 6807-XL and 80 Gbps in a 6500-E chassis, so oversubscription is 2:1 in the 6807-XL and 4:1 in the 6500-E when all 32 ports are active. Throughput is up to 120 Mpps for IPv4 and 60 Mpps for IPv6, from two forwarding engines.

Forwarding tables hold 256K IPv4 and MPLS entries and 128K IPv6 entries, with a 128K MAC table, 64K ACL entries and 1M NetFlow entries. Queues are 1p7q4t by default. Onboard memory is 2 GB, jumbo frames reach 9216 bytes, and the minimum release is Cisco IOS 15.2(1)SY.

The module takes one slot, weighs 14.3 lb (6.5 kg) and draws 587.60 W. It fits any slot in 6503-E, 6504-E, 6506-E, 6509-E and 6509-V-E chassis, slots 1-6 and 9-13 in the 6513-E, and slots 1-2 and 5-7 in the 6807-XL. The C6800-8P10G is a smaller 10G card in the Cisco interface cards range.