The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series 10 Gigabit Ethernet modules are designed for deployment in the distribution & core of campus & data center for traffic aggregation or for interbuilding, points of presence (POPs), WAN edge, & MAN connections. These modules support IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation & Cisco Ether Channel technology for fault-tolerant connectivity & bandwidth scalability of up to 80 Gbps per Ether Channel connection. In addition, they support hardware based quality of service (Qo S), access control lists (ACLs), & jumbo frames to enable secure & predictable performance for bandwidth-intensive applications. The WS-X6708-10G-3C is equipped with DFC3C for distributed forwarding, supporting 256K routes.