The Catalyst 6000 Family Series is a family of high-performance, multilayer switching solutions for both enterprise and service provider networks. The Catalyst 6000 Family delivers exceptional scalability and price/performance, supporting a wide range of interface densities, performance, and high-availability options. With application intelligence, quality-of-service (QoS) mechanisms and security, customers can more effectively leverage their network for increased client services such as multicast and ERP applications without sacrificing network performance. With CiscoAssure, network policy can be applied end to end based on Layer 2, 3, and 4 information such as specific users, IP addresses, or applications.This model comes with dual 1000BASE-X GBIC uplinks.