Technical Details for Cisco Catalyst 5500 Chassis with Single AC Power Supply

Cisco Catalyst 5500 Chassis with Single AC Power Supply ... wiring closet and backbone applications. It has 13 slots and a gigabit Ethernet-ready architecture that scales to more than 50 Gbps and throughput of tens of millions of packets or cells per second (pps).

The Cisco 5500 complies with Cisco's Investment Protection standards by seamlessly integrating features and interface modules from the Catalyst 5000, 8500, and Cisco Lightstream 1010 products. With its support for hot-swappable modules, power supplies, and fans, the Catalyst 5500 delivers high availability for production networks. Dual redundant switching engines, power supplies, and a passive backplane design ensure full system redundancy for mission-critical environments.