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Real differences between Cat 6500 and 7600

c.vidal
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I need to know the real difference between the catalyst 6500 and the router 7600.

When should use one or the other?

they possess important features differences?

Thanks

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dathaide
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You normally use the Catalyst 6500 to connect vlans together. Say you have a 30 story building and each floor is on its own vlan which it should. Then those vlans physically terminate on a 6500. Also called a Layer 3 switch.

The 7600 router is a true router and alhough you can do vlan routing on it its primary use is to provide a connection to remote offices. For example it could terminate a DS3 or a frame relay circuits to your remote locations.

Thus in conclusion primary role of 6500 is switching and 7600 is routing.

The cisco website probably has a better explaining and so does the CCNP books. Hope this gets you thinking in the right direction

thanks

thanks for your assitance

The 6500 with MSFC2 and PFC2 can do routing just fine - it's a true router too.

The real difference between 6500 and 7600 is marketing.

(Before Sup720 came along, you could explain it simply as: 7600 equals 6500 with Sup2/MSFC2/PFC2 and at least one OSM.)

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