Description
High Availability and Resilience
High Availability (HA) and Resilience refer to the ability of a system to continue functioning even in the event of a component failure or outage. In the context of the C6800-SUP6T Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series SFP+ Supervisor Engine, the following features ensure high availability and resilience:
- Redundant power supplies: The supervisor engine comes with dual power supplies, ensuring that the system can continue functioning even if one power supply fails.
- Redundant supervisor engines: The C6800-SUP6T has two supervisor engines, providing redundancy in case one engine fails. If one engine fails, the other takes over automatically, ensuring seamless operation.
- Stateful Switchover (SSO): The SSO feature enables the active supervisor engine to maintain the state of the network and immediately take over the configuration of the failed engine, minimizing the disruption and downtime.
- Non-Stop Forwarding (NSF): The NSF feature ensures that the forwarding of packets continues uninterrupted in the event of a supervisor engine failure, ensuring high availability of the network.
- Flexible NetFlow (FNF): The FNF feature provides flow statistics and helps in monitoring network traffic, allowing network administrators to detect and respond to network issues before they cause significant downtime.
- Route Processor Redundancy (RPR): The RPR feature provides automatic failover in case of a route processor failure, ensuring high availability of the network.
In conclusion, the C6800-SUP6T Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series SFP+ Supervisor Engine provides a highly available and resilient network infrastructure through its various HA features. These features help ensure that the network continues functioning seamlessly in the event of a component failure, reducing downtime and minimizing the impact on network services.
Network Management and Monitoring
The Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series SFP+ Supervisor Engine (C6800-SUP6T) is a high-performance networking device designed for enterprise and data center networks. The device is equipped with advanced network management and monitoring capabilities that enable network administrators to effectively manage and monitor the performance of their networks.
One of the key features of the C6800-SUP6T is its ability to provide real-time network monitoring and visibility. The device is equipped with various tools and technologies that allow administrators to monitor network performance in real-time and identify any potential issues or bottlenecks. This helps to ensure that the network is running smoothly and that any potential problems are quickly identified and resolved.
Another important feature of the C6800-SUP6T is its ability to perform network management tasks. The device provides a comprehensive set of management tools and technologies that allow administrators to perform tasks such as configuring and managing switches, monitoring network traffic, and performing software upgrades. This helps to simplify the management of large, complex networks, and reduces the risk of human error.
The C6800-SUP6T also supports various network protocols and technologies, including SNMP, Syslog, and NetFlow, which allow administrators to gather network data and monitor network performance. This information can be used to identify trends, diagnose issues, and make informed decisions about network upgrades and reconfigurations.
In conclusion, the C6800-SUP6T is a powerful and advanced networking device that provides advanced network management and monitoring capabilities. These capabilities help to simplify the management of large, complex networks and ensure that the network is running smoothly and efficiently.
Quality of Service (QoS) and Traffic Management
Quality of Service (QoS) refers to the capability of a network to provide better service to certain data over other data. It ensures that critical network traffic is prioritized over less important traffic and prevents network congestion.
The C6800-SUP6T Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series SFP+ Supervisor Engine has a number of QoS features, including:
- Class-Based Weighted Fair Queuing (CBWFQ): This feature allows administrators to allocate bandwidth to different traffic classes, which helps prevent congestion and ensure timely delivery of mission-critical data.
- Low Latency Queuing (LLQ): This feature enables administrators to prioritize specific types of traffic, such as voice or video, over other types of traffic, which helps ensure that these critical applications receive the bandwidth they need to function properly.
- Traffic Shaping: This feature allows administrators to limit the amount of bandwidth that a specific type of traffic can consume, which helps prevent network congestion and ensures that critical applications receive the bandwidth they need to function properly.
- Link Fragmentation and Interleaving (LFI): This feature helps reduce delay for voice and video traffic by breaking up large packets into smaller fragments and interleaving them with other traffic, which helps reduce congestion and ensure timely delivery of critical data.
Traffic Management of C6800-SUP6T Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series SFP+ Supervisor Engine refers to the ability of the network to control and monitor the flow of traffic. The C6800-SUP6T supports the following traffic management features:
- Quality of Service (QoS): As mentioned earlier, the QoS features help prioritize critical network traffic over less important traffic, reducing congestion and ensuring timely delivery of data.
- Access Control Lists (ACLs): These allow administrators to define specific rules for traffic management, such as blocking or allowing specific types of traffic based on IP addresses, port numbers, or protocols.
- Port-based rate limiting: This feature allows administrators to limit the amount of bandwidth that a specific port can consume, which helps prevent congestion and ensure that critical applications receive the bandwidth they need to function properly.
In conclusion, the C6800-SUP6T Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series SFP+ Supervisor Engine provides advanced QoS and traffic management features that help ensure that critical network traffic is prioritized, reducing congestion and ensuring timely delivery of data.
General Information:
- Manufacturer: Cisco Systems, Inc
- Manufacturer Part Number: C6800-SUP6T
- Product Name: Catalyst 6800 Series Supervisor Engine 6T
- Product Type: Supervisor Engine
Technical Information:
- Application/Usage Optical Network
- Application/Usage Data Networking
- Interfaces/Ports
- Interfaces/Ports Details 1 x Type B Console USB
- Interfaces/Ports Details 1 x RJ-45 Management
- Interfaces/Ports Details 1 x RJ-45 Serial
Performance:
- Media Type: Supported Optical Fiber
- Media Type: Supported Twisted Pair
- Ethernet Technology 10 Gigabit Ethernet
- Ethernet Technology 40 Gigabit Ethernet
- Network Technology: 40GBase-X
- Network Technology: 10GBase-X
I/O Expansions
- Number of Total Expansion Slots 11
- Expansion Slot Type QSFP
- Expansion Slot Type SFP+
- Expansion Slot Type SFP
Miscellaneous:
- Compatibility-
- Cisco Catalyst 6500-E Series Chassis
- Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches





