Cisco WS-SUP720-3B Catalyst Supervisor 720 Module With Integrated Fabric Switch

Included:

• 1 x Cisco WS-SUP720-3B Catalyst Supervisor 720 Module With Integrated Fabric Switch

Description:

The Cisco Catalyst 6500/Cisco 7600 Series Supervisor Engine 720 is a family of Supervisor

Engine(s) designed to deliver scalable performance and rich set of IP features in hardware. Its

hardware-based feature set enables applications such as traditional IP forwarding, Layer 2 and

Layer 3 Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPNs, Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS) with quality of

service (QoS) and security features. The Supervisor engine 720 integrates a high-performance

720 Gbps crossbar switch fabric with a forwarding engine in a single module, delivering 40 Gbps of

switching capacity per slot (enabling 4-port 10GE and 48-port 10/100/1000 density line cards).

With hardware-enabled forwarding for IPv4, IPv6 and MPLS, the system performance is capable of

400 Mpps for IPv4, 200 Mpps for IPv6 traffic, with features and 1024 VRFs each populated with up

to 700 routes/VRF for MPLS.

The Cisco Supervisor Engine 720 offers a strong set of security features. System security is

hardened with support for features such as Port Security, CPU rate limiting, Multi-Path uRPF and

a long list 802.1x extension. Extensive feature support such as QoS mechanisms, hardware-based

generic-routing-encapsulation (GRE) tunneling, and access control lists (ACLs) enable customers

to build high-performance, feature-rich campus networks, metropolitan (metro) aggregation, and

various WAN edge networks.

With enhanced security, rich QoS and scalable performance for Gigabit and 10gigabit, the Sup720

is ideal for enterprise core and distribution and datacenters.

The Supervisor Engine 720 builds on the proven Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) architecture, by

supporting centralized forwarding (CEF) and distributed forwarding (dCEF). The variants of PFC3

distinguish the various Supervisor 720 families of engines. There are three flavors—PFC3A,

PFC3B and PFC3BXL—correspond to WS-SUP720, WS-SUP720-3B and WS-SUP720-3BXL.

The Supervisor Engine 720 family is supported on both operating systems–Cisco Catalyst OS

and Cisco IOS.

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:

• Delivering scalable forwarding Performance: up to 400 Mpps* IPv4 and 200 Mpps* IPv6 with dCEF
• Multi Protocol Label Switching support (MPLS) in hardware: enabling the use of VPNs and layer 2 tunneling while improving traffic engineering for QoS
• Delivering up to 40 Gbps per slot of switching capacity; 720 Gbps aggregate bandwidth
• Providing support for new high performance next generation gigabit and 10Gigabit interfaces
• Protecting customer’s investment—supporting all three generations of Catalyst 6500 series interfaces and service module configurations
• Supporting all 3 generations of Catalyst 6500 series interfaces, services modules and WAN interfaces
• Enabling an increase in chassis interface port density and services module configurations

* Requires DFC3’s

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