The Catalyst 6500 family delivers highly available secure converged network services for the Enterprise and Service Provider networks. Designed to address the increased requirements for gigabit scalability, high-availability, rich services, and multilayer switching in backbone, distribution, and wiring closet topologies as well as datacenter environments, the Catalyst 6500 family delivers exceptional scalability and price/performance, supporting a wide range of interface densities, performance, and integration of powerful service modules. The Catalyst family delivers a wide range of intelligent switching solutions, enabling corporate intranets, extranets, and the Internet for multimedia, mission-critical data, and voice applications.