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WS-SUP32-GE-3B Overview
The Cisco ® Catalyst ® 6500 Series/Cisco 7600 Series Supervisor Engine 32 delivers industry-leading security, availability, and manageability services for the networks of small and medium-sized business, enterprises, and service providers. This supervisor engine is ideal for applications requiring maximum uptime and security for small and medium-sized LAN core functions, distribution, and access as well as enterprise LAN/WAN access and service provider edge applications. The Supervisor Engine 32 provides investment protection for current Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco 7600 Series deployments by supporting all existing classic and Cisco Express Forwarding 256-based modules and enabling new applications.
Product Features
- Industry-leading integrated security
- High availability
- Flexible, enhanced manageability
- Slot efficiency
- Investment protection
- Superior traffic management
- Extensive management tools
Product Applications
- Small and Medium-Sized LAN Deployments
The Supervisor Engine 32 provides enhanced services like security, high availability, and manageability and is ideal for small and mid-size core, distribution, and collapsed core/distribution LAN deployments.
- Enterprise LAN Access
The Supervisor Engine 32 provides high levels of security, availability, and manageability for enterprise LAN access. Equipped with the PFC3B, the Supervisor Engine 32 extends the intelligent services of the Supervisor Engine 720 to the access layer, and at the same time provides performance suitable for LAN access. Enhanced uplink density to eight Gigabit Ethernet SFP-based ports and support of Gigabit Cisco EtherChannel technology enables larger uplink and downlink pipes between floors and enhanced resiliency. Enhanced uplink bandwidth to two 10-Gigabit Ethernet XENPAK-based ports further improves network scalability for support of bandwidth-intensive applications such as daily desktop backups, e-learning, and video broadcasting.
- Service Providers or Enterprise Edge Services
The Supervisor Engine 32 is targeted for the WAN edge and Metro Ethernet access layer. Equipped with PFC3B, the Supervisor Engine 32 extends the intelligence of Supervisor Engine 720 to the access layer, providing an end-to-end architecture and features consistency. It offers advanced hardware-accelerated IP services such as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), IPv6, Network Address Translation (NAT), generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunneling, ACLs, rate limiting, and advanced QoS to enable service providers to build feature-rich networks. The uplinks of Supervisor Engine 32 can also support SRR for rate limiting traffic.
- Service Appliance
The Cisco Catalyst 6504 or Cisco 7604 chassis, together with Supervisor Engine 32 and up to three service modules, forms an ideal service appliance. Service modules like the content services module (CSM) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) module can be deployed together for content switching services. The firewall module and intrusion detection services (IDS) module can be deployed together as a security appliance. The wireless services module (WLSM) with GRE tunneling capability on the Supervisor Engine 32 supports mobile IP. These advanced services can then be distributed in the network over the integrated eight-port Gigabit Ethernet uplinks or two-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks from the Supervisor Engine 32.
