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Review: Cisco’s Catalyst 6500 raises the stakes
By David Newman, Network World Global Test Alliance
Network World, 10/20/03
Cisco might be a relative latecomer to 10G Ethernet switching, but it’s hardly playing catch-up. Our exclusive lab tests show that new line cards and management modules for Cisco’s Catalyst 6500 switches push the performance envelope in a number of ways:
* Line-rate throughput with low delay and jitter. The Catalyst becomes only the second product tested to fill a 10G pipe.
* Fast failover. The Catalyst set records for recovery times.
* Perfect prioritization. The Catalyst is the only product that can protect high-priority traffic while simultaneously rate-limiting low-priority traffic.
* IPv6 routing. In the first-ever public test of IPv6 routing, the Catalyst moved traffic at line rate even when handling 250 million flows.
The Catalyst’s stellar performance in our tests, along with its rich feature set, earned it a World Class Award. Simply put, this is the highest-performing 10G Ethernet product we’ve tested to date.
To read this story in full, please go to:
https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2003/1020cisco10gbe.html
Cisco review: How we did it, 10/20/03
We asked vendors to supply two switch chassis, up to four 10G Ethernet interfaces, and a total of 24 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces.
https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2003/1020cisco10gbehow.html
