Cisco Supervisor Engine 720 - Control processor WS-SUP720= Data Sheet
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Data Sheet
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The Supervisor Engine 720 delivers scalable-performance, intelligence, and a broad set of
features to address the needs of the most demanding service provider and enterprise deployment
requirements for building modular, resilient, scalable, and secure layer 2 or layer 3 solution by:
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Delivering scalable forwarding Performance: up to 400 Mpps
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IPv4 and 200 Mpps
IPv6
with dCEF
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Multi Protocol Label Switching support (MPLS) in hardware: enabling the use of VPNs and
layer 2 tunneling while improving traffic engineering for QoS
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Delivering up to 40 Gbps per slot of switching capacity; 720 Gbps aggregate bandwidth
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Providing support for new high performance next generation gigabit and 10Gigabit
interfaces
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Protecting customer’s investment, supporting all three generations of Catalyst 6500 series
interfaces and service module configurations
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Supporting all 3 generations of Catalyst 6500 series interfaces, services modules and WAN
interfaces
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Enabling an increase in chassis interface port density and services module configurations
The Supervisor Engine 720’s PFC3 and MSFC3 provide the numerous functions:
MSFC3
The MSFC3 is an integral part of the Supervisor Engine 720, providing high performance,
multilayer switching and routing intelligence. Equipped with a high performance processor, the
MSFC runs layer 2 protocols on one CPU and layer 3 protocols on the second CPU. These include
routing protocol support, layer 2 protocols (Spanning Tree Protocol and VLAN Trunking Protocol
for example), and security services.
The MSFC builds the Cisco Express Forwarding information Base (FIB) table in software and then
downloads this table to the hardware Application-specific-integrated circuits (ASICs) on the PFC3
and Distributed forwarding engine (if present) that make the forwarding decisions for IP unicast
and multicast traffic.
PFC3
The Supervisor Engine 720 features the PFC3, which is equipped with a high-performance ASIC
complex supporting a range of hardware-based features. The PFC3 supports routing and bridging,
QoS, and multicast packet replication, and processes security policies such as access control lists
(ACLs).
The Supervisor engine 720 has a field-upgradeable Policy Feature Card3. The PFC3 is equipped
with a high performance ASIC complex supporting a range of hardware based features. The PFC3
supports IPv4, IPv6 routing and bridging functionality, quality of service (QoS) and multicast
forwarded and ACL-based policies.
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Requires DFC3’s
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