Cisco Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 32 Guía De Información
Q&A
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Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 32 Programmable
Intelligent Services Accelerator
Intelligent Services Accelerator
Product and Architecture Overview
Q.
What is the Cisco
®
Catalyst
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6500 Supervisor Engine 32 Programmable Intelligent
Services Accelerator (PISA)?
A.
The Supervisor Engine 32 PISA is an intelligent services supervisor for the Cisco Catalyst
6500 Series modular switches, delivering superior deep packet inspection, application
awareness, security, availability, and manageability services for the networks of small and
medium-sized business, enterprises, and service providers.
The PISA on the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 32 PISA provides hardware
acceleration of intelligent services such as network-based application (NBAR) and flexible
packet matching (FPM) at multigigabit speeds, in addition to the management and control
plane functions traditionally provided by the multilayer switch feature card (MSFC). The
Supervisor Engine 32 PISA is offered with the Policy Feature Card 3B (PFC3B), to ensure
feature and performance compatibility with the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 32.
Q.
Where can I deploy the Supervisor Engine 32 PISA?
A.
This supervisor engine is ideal for securing campus access networks, converged services
MAN/WAN applications and small/medium backbone functions.
Q.
What are the different uplink options available on the Supervisor Engine 32 PISA?
A.
The Supervisor Engine 32 PISA is available in two options:
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Supervisor Engine 32 PISA with eight Gigabit Ethernet uplinks plus one 10/100/1000 port
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Supervisor Engine 32 PISA with two 10 Gigabit Ethernet Uplinks plus one 10/100/1000 port
Q.
Is the PISA available as a daughter card upgrade on the Supervisor Engine 32?
A.
No. The PISA is only available in the form of two new supervisor engine options on the Cisco
Catalyst 6500.
Q.
What is the difference between the MSFC2A and the PISA?
A.
The PISA is a superset of the MSFC2A. The PISA provides all the management and control
plane functions traditionally provided by the MSFC2A. In addition, it provides hardware
acceleration of intelligent services such as NBAR and FPM at multigigabit speeds.
Q.
Does the Supervisor Engine 32 PISA support all the hardware features supported on the
Supervisor Engines 32?
A.
Yes. The Supervisor Engine 32 PISA is offered with the PFC3B, delivering the same features
and services available on the Supervisor Engines 32.