Cisco Catalyst 6800ia Series Switches Data Sheet

 

Cisco^® Catalyst^® Instant Access is a solution to dramatically simplify the campus network operations, a game changer for business transformation creating opportunities for innovation in the campus. It simplifies operation through a single point of operation and management for campus access and backbone. The solution is composed of a Cisco Catalyst 6500 or 6800 core switch and Cisco Catalyst 6800ia Series Switches (Figure 1). The Cisco Catalyst 6800ia access switches are connected to the Cisco Catalyst 6500 or 6800, and the entire configuration works as a single extended switch with a single management domain. This allows Catalyst 6500/6800 features to be extended to network access e.g. MPLS/EVN in access. This solution is optimized for wired devices with centralized wireless. The access switches can support Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+), and the access switches can be stacked together for higher port density and resiliency. IT has flexibility to deploy the Cisco Catalyst Instant Access solution on all or a subset of the campus network. IT can reuse existing network cabling infrastructure to deploy this solution.

Cisco Catalyst 6800ia Series Switches

Product Overview

The Cisco Catalyst 6800ia solution offers network administrators the ability to look at buildings in a campus network as a single switch. The entire building can be viewed as a single management entity. The Cisco Catalyst 6800ia solution is managed by the parent Cisco Catalyst 6500/6800^* switch. The Cisco Catalyst 6800ia solution offers feature consistency across the access and distribution layers of the campus Ethernet network. The Cisco Catalyst 6800ia is an extension of the Cisco Catalyst 6500/6800 parent switch. The Cisco Catalyst 6800ia solution is very resilient with its support of multichassis EtherChannel and stacking. The Cisco Catalyst 6800ia solution does not use Spanning Tree Protocol in the links between the Cisco Catalyst 6800ia switch and the Cisco Catalyst 6500/6800 parent switch. The Cisco Catalyst 6800ia solution supports Virtual Switching System Cisco Catalyst 6800ia switches do not perform any local packet forwarding. All traffic originating from host ports (downlink ports) of a Cisco Catalyst 6800ia switch will be sent to an Instant Access parent, which makes all the switching and forwarding decisions for the traffic to be forwarded to the destination.

The Cisco Catalyst 6800ia switch inherits the features and capabilities of its parent in an Instant Access solution. Consider the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 2T as an Instant Access parent switch. In this case the Cisco Catalyst 6800ia client switch will inherit all the features of the Supervisor Engine 2T, which includes Security Group Tags (SGT), Security Group Access Control List (SGACL), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), IPv6, mediatrace, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), and so on:

●     48 Gigabit Ethernet ports

●     Integrated FlexStack-Plus capability, which provides up to 80 Gbps stack bandwidth

●     Support of up to five members in a stack

●     Two 10G Small Form-Factor Pluggable Plus (SFP+) uplinks

●     External RPS power redundancy for Cisco Catalyst 6800ia

●     Mini USB and Ethernet ports for versatile console management

●     All ports in Cisco Catalyst 6800ia series are MACsec hardware ready

●     IEEE 802.3at-compliant PoE+ for up to 30W of power per port

●     Up to 740W of combined PoE/PoE+ budget

●     IEEE 802.3az Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) enables dynamic power savings on all switch ports

●     Dynamic power mapping to scale up to 740W PoE+ power

●     Limited Lifetime Warranty

●     Removable redundant power supply available with C6800IA-48FPDR

Switch Configurations

The Cisco Catalyst 6800ia families of switches have two power configurations. The first two models, C6800IA-48TD, and C6800IA-48FPD, support a single built-in power supply and fan. The power redundancy for these two models is supported by an external RPS. The third model is C6800IA-48FPDR, which supports two redundant removable power supplies, each power supply with a power budget of 1025W of total system power. The 1025W power supply has an inline power budget of 740W.

Table 1.             Cisco Catalyst 6800ia Family Switches Configurations

Cisco FlexStack-Plus

Cisco FlexStack-Plus provides stacking of up to five Cisco Catalyst 6800ia switches through an integrated module. The Cisco Catalyst 6800ia switches only stack with other Cisco Catalyst 6800ia switches.

Cisco FlexStack-Plus and Cisco IOS^® Software provide true stacking, with all switches in a stack acting as a single switch unit. FlexStack-Plus provides a unified data plane for all Ethernet traffic for all members of the stack.

Power over Ethernet Plus

Cisco Catalyst 6800ia switches support both IEEE 802.3af PoE and IEEE 802.3at PoE+ (up to 30W per port) to deliver lower total cost of ownership for deployments that incorporate Cisco IP phones, Cisco Aironet^® wireless access points, or other standards-compliant PoE/PoE+ end devices. PoE removes the need to supply wall power to PoE-enabled devices and eliminates the cost of adding electrical cabling and circuits that would otherwise be necessary in IP phone and WLAN deployments.

Table 2 shows the total PoE/PoE+ power available in Cisco Catalyst 6800ia models.

Table 2.             PoE and PoE+ Power Capacity for Cisco Catalyst 6800IA

Table 3 shows power supplies supported with C6800IA-48FPDR SKU.

Table 3.             Power Supply Capacity for Cisco Catalyst C6800IA-48FPDR

Power Management

IEEE 802.3az EEE is implemented in all Cisco Catalyst 6800ia Series Switches. The EEE enables all the Ethernet ports to dynamically sense idle periods between traffic bursts and quickly switch the interfaces into “low power idle” mode, reducing port power consumption. It automatically brings back full power to the port with resumption of the traffic. The EEE technology maintains the link health using “link refresh” during the “idle” periods, making sure that there is no link-status change.

Technical Specifications

Tables 4 through 9 describe Cisco Catalyst 6800ia Series hardware, mechanical specifications, connectors and interfaces, and safety and compliance, respectively.

Table 4.             Cisco Catalyst 6800ia Series Hardware

Table 5.             Cisco Catalyst 6800ia Series Mechanical Specifications

Table 6.            Predicted Reliability

Table 7.             Voltage and Power Ratings

 

Table 8.            Connectors and Interfaces

Table 9.            Safety and Compliance

Cisco Limited Lifetime Hardware Warranty

Cisco Catalyst 6800ia Series Switches come with a Limited Lifetime Warranty (LLW). The LLW includes 10-day advance hardware replacement for as long as the original end user owns the product. Table 10 describes the Cisco limited lifetime hardware warranty.

Your formal warranty statement, including the warranty applicable to Cisco software, appears in the Cisco information packet that accompanies your Cisco product. We encourage you to review carefully the warranty statement shipped with your specific product before use.

Cisco reserves the right to refund the purchase price as its exclusive warranty remedy. For further information about warranty terms, visit cisco.com/go/warranty.

Table 10.          Warranty Terms

Technical Support and Services

Table 11 describes available technical services.

Table 11.          Technical Services Available for Cisco Catalyst 6800ia Series Switches

Ordering Information

This section describes ordering information for products, accessories, redundant power supply options, power supplies, SFP+ modules, and power cords, respectively.

Table 12.          Cisco Catalyst 6800ia Series Switches Ordering Information

Table 13.          Cisco Catalyst 6800ia Accessories

Table 14.          Redundant Power Supply Options for Cisco Catalyst C6800IA-48TD and C6800IA-48FPD

For more information about the RPS-2300, visit cisco.com/en/US/products/ps7130/index.html.

Table 15.          Power Supply Options for C6800IA-48FPDR

Table 16.         Cisco Catalyst 6800ia SFP and SFP+ Modules

Table 17.          Power Cords for Cisco Catalyst C6800IA-48TD and C6800IA-48FPD

Table 18.         Power Cords for Cisco Catalyst C6800IA-48FPDR

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