The Cisco Catalyst 6000 family swicthes, consisting of the Catalyst 6500 series and the Catalyst 6000 series, delivers high-performance, multilayer switching solutions for enterprise and service provider networks.

The Catalyst 6500 Series delivers highly available secure converged network services for Enterprise and Service Provider networks. Designed to address the increased requirements for gigabit scalability, high-availability, rich services, and multilayer switching in backbone, distribution, and wiring closet topologies as well as datacenter environments, the Catalyst 6500 Series delivers exceptional scalability and price/performance, supporting a wide range of interface densities, performance, and integration of powerful services modules.