Cisco 7500 SERIES ROUTE SWITCH PROCESSOR 16 Specification Guide

Cisco Systems, Inc.

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Data Sheet

Route Switch Processor 16

for the Cisco

7500

Series Router

The Route Switch Processor 16 (RSP16) is the newest and highest-performance

main system processor for the Cisco 7500 Series Router. The RSP16 supports up to

1 GB of program memory, allowing customers to significantly increase their route

tables. The RSP16 provides significant performance enhancements, increasing

switching performance by 20 percent and 55 percent compared the RSP8 and

RSP4+, respectively.

The RSP16 is available as an upgrade to an

existing RSP and supports the VIP2, VIP4,

and new VIP6-80.The RSP16 does not

support legacy interface processors, except

for the CIP2, GEIP, GEIP+,

FEIP2-DSW-2TX, FEIP2-DSW-2FX, SRPIP,

CX-CIP2-ECA1 and ECA2.

The RSP16 fully supports Cisco 7500 Series

high-availability features, including Single

Line Card Reload, Route Processor

Redundancy, Fast Software Upgrade (FSU),

Nonstop Forward (NSF), and Stateful

Switch Over (SSO). This support allows the

Cisco 7500 Series routers to demonstrate

some of the highest uptime in the industry.

FSU allows customers to upgrade their

existing RSP2, RSP4+, and RSP8 to RSP16

with minimal downtime.

The RSP16 is an ideal platform for

enterprise and service provider networks

that require additional performance and

processing power to support

service-enabled edge and core applications.

Features and Benefits Overview

Table 1 gives features and benefits of the

RSP16.

Table 1

Cisco RSP16 Features and

Benefits

Features

Benefits

Up to 1 GB
configurable
program memory

• Supports large

route tables

Global
Resilience IP

– RPR

– FSU

– NSF

– SSO

• Provides

industry-leading
high system
availability

• Minimizes support

cost and increases
productivity

ECC protected
memory

• Helps maintain

system availability
with parity
protected memory

400-MHz
processor

• Offers

high-performance
features