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A Catalyst 6500 chassis with a Supervisor Engine 2 has a 32 Gbps shared bus, and installing a WS-C6500-SFM switch fabric module lifts the backplane to 256 Gbps. The WS-C6500-SFM can be mixed with the WS-X6500-SFM2 in the same chassis.
Slot 5 or slot 6 holds the module in a Catalyst 6506, 6506-E, 6509, 6509-E, 6509-NEB or 6509-NEB-A chassis, while a Catalyst 6513 takes it in slot 7 or slot 8. The 6503, 6503-E and 6504-E chassis do not support it.
Supervisor Engine 32 and Supervisor Engine 32 PISA do not support the module. Supervisor Engine 720, 720-10GE and 2T have switching fabric of their own, and a WS-C6500-SFM cannot share a chassis with a Supervisor Engine 720.
A sibling fabric module is the WS-X6500-SFM2 fabric module, and chassis that take either module include the WS-C6509-E 9-slot chassis. Further Catalyst 6500 parts are in Cisco switches.
| Product type | Catalyst 6500 switch fabric module |
| Part number | WS-C6500-SFM |
| Related fabric module | WS-X6500-SFM2 |
| Slot, 6506/6506-E/6509/6509-E/6509-NEB/6509-NEB-A | Slot 5 or slot 6 |
| Slot, 6513 | Slot 7 or slot 8 |
| Backplane with Supervisor Engine 2 | 256 Gbps (32 Gbps shared bus without a fabric module) |
| Not supported with | Supervisor Engine 32, Supervisor Engine 32 PISA, Supervisor Engine 720, Supervisor Engine 720-10GE, Supervisor Engine 2T |
| Not supported in chassis | Catalyst 6503, 6503-E, 6504-E |
| Compatible with | Catalyst 6506, 6506-E, 6509, 6509-E, 6509-NEB, 6509-NEB-A and 6513 chassis with Supervisor Engine 2 |