WS-C6506-E Cisco Catalyst 6506-E 6-Slot Enhanced Chassis

The WS-C6506-E is the 6-slot Cisco Catalyst 6506-E enhanced chassis. With one supervisor engine installed it carries up to five more Catalyst 6500 modules, delivering 80 Gbps to every slot. Slots 5 and 6 are the ones that accept a WS-C6500-SFM or WS-X6500-SFM2 fabric module, and the two types may be mixed. The spare form is WS-C6506-E=.

Supervisor Engine 32, 720-3B, 720-3BXL, 720-10G-3C, 720-10G-3CXL and 2T are the supported supervisors. Backplane figures are a 32 GBps shared bus plus a 256 GBps or 720 GBps fabric, depending on the supervisor. Supervisor Engine 32 and 720 have fabric of their own and do not use the fabric modules. The 2T needs a power supply of 3000 W or more.

Two power bays are provided, left bay first and right bay second. Supported units are WS-CAC-2500W, WS-CDC-2500W, WS-CAC-3000W, WS-CAC-4000W-US, WS-CAC-4000W-INT, PWR-4000-DC, WS-CAC-6000W, PWR-6000-DC and WS-CAC-8700W-E. The single fan tray is WS-C6506-E-FAN at 564 CFM with six fans, and it needs a 2500 W or larger supply. Two replaceable CLK-7600= clock modules and three WS-C6K-VTT-E= modules serve the bus.

An empty chassis weighs 50 lb (22.7 kg), and calculated MTBF is 441,418 hours. Its fan tray is a separate part, and the nine-slot chassis tray is the WS-C6509-E-FAN fan tray. A 9-slot alternative is the WS-C6509-E 9-slot chassis, and more chassis are in the Cisco switch category.

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