100G Data Center Switch with Redundant Cooling and SDN Support

The CS6500X Series offers high-performance Layer 3 backbone switches that offer a large routing array of up to 128,000 entries shared between IPv4 and IPv6.

RIP, OSPF, and BGP provide dynamic routing by exchanging route information with other Layer 3 switches and routers so they can be deployed at scale.

The CS6500X series is equipped with a wide range of Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) features, including PIM-DM, PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, and MSDP.

The CS6500X series offers up to 32 100 Gigabit ports that can work as a redundant link working with various ring protection features, effectively increasing network scalability and performance.

With the ability to split streams on QSFP and QSFP28 ports, devices in this series allow transmission of 4x 10Gb to each QSFP port or 4x 25Gb each 100Gb port

By using the CS6500X series switches, you can be sure that the equipment you are using has all the available functionalities without the need to purchase additional licenses.

CS6500X series switches feature redundant Hot-Swap power supplies and Hot-Swap fans to ensure continuous, uninterrupted network operation when replacing one

The open OpenFlow standard available in the CS6500X family switches allows you to build networks in Software Defined Networking (SDN) architecture.

OpenFlow is one of the most important projects in software-controlled networks.

In the SDN concept, network management is transferred from the device to the central node — the network controller. CS6500X Series switches using OpenFlow enable you to build efficient and flexibly managed networks.