Description The SmartSwitch 6500 is Cabletron's newest entry into the rapidly expanding campus and enterprise ATM backbone market. Designed for the most demanding backbone applications, the SmartSwitch 6500 incorporates several emerging requirements for next-generation enterprise networks, such as high port capacity, redundant design, standards-based routing and superior traffic and congestion management. By focusing on performance, reliability and manageability, the SmartSwitch 6500 is ideally suited for providing the core switching element for campus and enterprise backbone networks, major data aggregation centers, Internet service providers and competitive local carriers. Its high performance, unmatched fault tolerance, broad feature set and fully updated standards compliance make the SmartSwitch 6500 the industry's premier campus backbone ATM switch. The SmartSwitch 6500 is an extension of the industry-leading design of the SmartSwitch 6000. Customers can buy new, complete SmartSwitch 6500 chassis, or may purchase upgrade kits to convert their existing 6000 to SmartSwitch 6500 functionality.
