CISCO WS-X6302-MSM Expansion module Switch Networking

DESCRIPTION THE MULTILAYER SWITCH MODULE (MSM) FOR CATALYST 6000 FAMILY SWITCHES COMBINES SOPHISTICATED CISCO IOS SOFTWARE FEATURES WITH ADVANCED ASIC TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT WIRE-SPEED MULTIPROTOCOL ROUTING IN A COMPACT, MANAGEABLE PLATFORM. THE MSM ENABLES CATALYST 6000 FAMILY CUSTOMERS TO DEPLOY VERY HIGH-PERFORMANCE MULTIPROTOCOL, MULTILAYER SWITCH SERVICES IN THE DISTRIBUTION/BACKBONE OF THEIR NETWORK TO SUPPORT WIRING CLOSET SWITCHES.THE MSM SUPPORTS FEATURE-RICH IP, IPX, AND IP MULTICAST LAYER 3 SWITCHING WITHOUT SACRIFICING THE PERFORMANCE REQUIRED IN A SCALABLE BACKBONE/DISTRIBUTION PLATFORM. THIS UNIQUE COMBINATION OF PERFORMANCE AND FLEXIBILITY ENABLES CUSTOMERS TO INTEGRATE THE CATALYST 6000 FAMILY INTO EXISTING IOS NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS WHILE AT THE SAME TIME SCALING THEIR BACKBONE CAPACITY TO GIGABIT SPEEDS. KEY FEATURES • WIRE SPEED IP, IP MULTICAST, AND IPX ROUTING BETWEEN VLANS • SUPPORT FOR UP TO 64K ENTRIES FOR IP NETWORK PREFIXES, IP UNICAST AND MULTICAST ADDRESSES, IPX NETWORK NUMBERS, AND MAC ADDRESSES • IP PRECEDENCE-BASED IP FORWARDING • FORWARDING INFORMATION BASE (FIB) AND ADJACENCY DATABASE SUPPORT AS DEFINED IN OTHER CISCO ROUTERS • DESTINATION OR DESTINATION/SOURCE-BASED LOAD SHARING AMONG EQUAL COST PATHS • STATIC IP ROUTING •IP ROUTING PROTOCOLS SUCH AS INTERNET GROUP MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL (IGRP), ENHANCED INTERIOR GATEWAY ROUTING PROTOCOL (EIGRP), OPEN SHORTEST PATH FIRST (OSPF), ROUTING INFORMATION PROTOCOL (RIP), AND RIP-2 • IP MULTICAST ROUTING PROTOCOLS SUCH AS PROTOCOL INDEPENDENT MULTICAST (PIM) (SPARSE AND DENSE MODE) AND DISTANCE VECTOR MULTICAST ROUTING PROTOCOL (DVMRP) • IPX ROUTING PROTOCOLS SUCH AS RIP AND EIGRP • IGMP V1 AND V2 • IGMP SNOOPING • CISCO GROUP MULTICAST PROTOCOL (CGMP) SERVER SUPPORT • FULL ICMP SUPPORT • GATEWAY DISCOVERY PROTOCOL (GDP) • INTERNET CONTROL MESSAGE PROTOCOL (ICMP) ROUTER DISCOVERY PROTOCOL (IRDP) • INTEGRATED ROUTING AND BRIDGING (IRB) • STANDARD DOMAIN NAMING SYSTEM (DNS) SUPPORT • DYNAMIC HOST CONFIGURATION PROTOCOL (DHCP) AND BOOT PROTOCOL (BOOTP) RELAY