The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series provides scalability in performance and services to meet the needs of today's fast-growing enterprise and service-provider networks. Cisco Catalyst 6500 10 Gigabit Ethernet modules further extend this scalability by increasing the per port bandwidth of the Cisco Catalyst 6500 by an order of magnitude. Building upon the award-winning Cisco Catalyst 6500 architecture, Cisco Catalyst 6500 10 Gigabit Ethernet modules support all the Layer 2, Layer 3, and Layer 4-7 features of the Cisco Catalyst 6500, including 10 Gigabit EtherChannel, traffic classification and marking, traffic policing, content switching, intrusion detection, and jumbo frames.