Cisco WS-C5500 Catalyst 5500 13-Slot Chassis (Empty)

The award-winning Cisco Catalyst 5500 is the most flexible, feature-rich switch in the industry. With a gigabit architecture that scales throughput to millions of packets per second, the Catalyst 5500 supports up to 528 user ports and is ideal for high-density wiring closets. Advanced multilayer features provide the intelligence needed to support mission-critical applications by delivering end-to-end quality of service (QoS) and multicast support.

The Cisco Catalyst 5500 is the companys modular switching platform for high-density wiring closets or distribution points. As a wiring closet solution, the Catalyst 5500 supports high-density, dedicated Token Ring or 10/100/1000 Ethernet switching. The Catalyst 5500 also supports all advanced Cisco wiring closet features such as automatic protocol broadcast filtering to conserve valuable bandwidth, intelligent multicast forwarding to handle multimedia traffic, and load balancing over redundant links.

The flexible architecture of the Catalyst 5500 supports interface modules from these Cisco campus backbone devices: Catalyst 8510, LightStream� 1010, and 7500 Series routers. This capability means the Catalyst 5500 can support high-performance multilayer switching, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switching, and Wide Area Network (WAN) connectivity. With Catalyst 5500, users can deploy the Catalyst 8510 modules for nonblocking, high-performance IP and IPX� multilayer switching. Users can also deploy
LightStream 1010 interface modules for native ATM switching. Finally, along with the route switch module in a Catalyst 5500, users can deploy interface modules from the Cisco 7500 series routers for WAN connectivity.