The Catalyst 6000 family, consisting of the Catalyst 6000 series and 6500 series, delivers a scalable, industry-leading Gigabit Ethernet solution for today's growing enterprise and service-provider networks. The Catalyst 6000 series delivers 32 Gigabits per second (Gbps) of backplane bandwidth, while the Catalyst 6500 series is scalable to 256 Gbps. The Catalyst 6000 family 8- and 16-port Gigabit Ethernet modules are IEEE standards compliant and support full-duplex operation.