# Marketing Information The Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 2 provides all of the features of the Supervisor 1A Engine and, in addition it provides an interface to the Switch Fabric Module and added features including: Support for Cross-bar fabric-enabled cards that scale bandwidth to 256 Gbps
# Support for Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF)-based architecture that enables distributed forwarding
# Support for video streaming applications via multicast replication in hardware