The Cisco 6500 Series has proven itself time and time again to be a mainstay in the networking industry. Cisco has done a commendable job with continued enhancements to ensure that the industry ...

The 6500 switches have been quite popular with Cisco’s customers. However, back on November 1, 2005, Cisco announced their End-of-Life (EOL) plan for the 6500-series switch chassis.

Cisco's UK & Ireland network systems market manager, Martin Cook, said the upgrade brings hardware-level packet inspection to the Catalyst 6500 Series.

According to Cisco, it also simplifies operation management by allowing multiple Catalyst 6500 Series switches to share a single point of management, single routing instance and single IP address ...

The Catalyst 6500 is one of Cisco’s main chassis-based switch platforms for enterprises and service providers. The security modules also can be deployed in the Cisco 7600 Series router.

Cisco's refresh of its Catalyst 6500 switching line gives VARs a sales opportunity with their Catalyst installed bases that focuses on investment protection and future-proofing.

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The new Catalyst 6503 complements Cisco's existing six, nine and 13-slot Catalyst 6500 series switches, said Kumar Srikantan, senior manager of product marketing for Cisco's Catalyst 6500 series.

The ME 6500 Series switches are available now, starting at US$24,000. The ONS 15310-MA is also available now, with a list price of $18,000 for a model with a basic configuration.