Product
Description: Cisco Systems Catalyst 6500 Series, 7600 Series
Switch Fabric Supervisor Engine. The Cisco WS-SUP720-3BXL is
a LAN (Local Area Network) Switch Supervisor Engine 720-3BXL
that is designed for today's data centers. It is also
known as a Control Processor with an integrated Switch Processor.
It delivers up to 720 Gbps Switch Fabric Connection and up to
400 Mpps of switching performance. The throughput supports line
cards with Cisco Express forwarding (CEF720) and distributed
Cisco Express Forwarding (dCEF720). It also supports IPv6 and
MPLS supported in hardware, as well as Layer 3 routing.
The Cisco WS-SUP720-3BXL is a third
generation supervisor card that is utilized in the Cisco Catalyst
6500 Series Switches, and the Cisco 7600 Series Router/Switches.
This Supervisor Engine 720-3BXL (Sup 720-3BXL) correlates the
ever increasing data-plane conditions of service provider and
enterprise customers by providing scalable, superior services
like hardware-accelerated IPv4, IPv6, and Multi-protocol Label
Switching (MPLS). The Cisco Systems Sup 720-3BXL incorporates
a high-competence crossbar switching fabric that can deliver
up to 40-Gbps (Giga Bits Per Second) aptitude per slot for a
system-wide capability of 720-Gbps.
Product
Outline
The Cisco Sup 720-3BXL amalgamates a towering-performance 720-Gbps
switch fabric with an innovative routing and forwarding engine
into a single module, all in one supervisor engine. The included
switch fabric makes available up to 40-Gbps full-duplex faculty
per slot, permitting it to maintain third-generation high-performance,
high-density Gigabit Ethernet and 10-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
as well as all accessible LAN (Local Area Network), WAN (Wide
Area Network), and services modules, comprising the widely installed
Flex WAN and fiber optical services modules to concentrate on
an extensive array of WAN edge aggregation installments from
DS-0 circuits through OC-48/STM-16.
The Cisco WS-SUP720-3BXL manufactures on the proven Cisco Express
Forwarding (CEF) structural design by allowing centralized forwarding
(Cisco Express Forwarding) and distributed forwarding (distributed
Cisco Express Forwarding - DCEF) to supply a extremely scalable
and pocket-book successful podium.
Also, the Cisco WS-SUP720-3BXL distributes a modular, durable,
scalable, and protected Layer 2 or Layer 3 elucidation by:
• (1) Facilitating sophisticated IP (Internet Protocol)
services such as MPLS, IPv6, and quality of service (QoS)
• (2) Holding up elevated-performance, third-generation
Ethernet interface ports
• (3) Conveying conventional and scalable system presentation
up to a continuous 400 Mpps (Million Packets Per Second) by
means of distributed forwarding daughter module cards (DFCs)
• (4) Sizing hardware-capable Forwarding Information Base
(FIB) table entries to 1 million routes
• (5) Bearing all three generations of Ethernet line module
cards, fiber optical services modules, FlexWAN, and services
modules for asset fortification
• (6) Transporting up to 40-Gbps full-duplex capacity
Ethernet per slot
• (7) Bringing 200-Mpps hardware-based IPv6 using DFC
daughter cards
• (8) Affording for 256,000 NetFlow entries
With such extensive services all within a single supervisor
engine module, the WS-SUP720-3BXL allows for expansive routes,
locked security measures, and an impressive maintenance of the
value of Cisco products.
Main
Features and Advantages
With an integrated 720-Gbps (Giga Bit Per Second) switch fabric,
the WS-SUP720-3BXL accumulates up to 2 slots, providing more
slots for module line cards. The 40-Gbps speed per slot gives
superior-density Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, when
your network needs the extra boost.
The WS-SUP720-3BXL has 1 million routes for IPv4 FIB table,
which also provides scalability and future growth for supporting
large route tables. The MPLS benefits are: Layer 2 and Layer
VPNs (Virtual Private Networks), ATM over MPLS (AToM), traffic
engineering and unequalled durability.
For security, the WS-SUP720-3BXL access lists (ACLs, ACL counters,
and CPU) deliver robust safety, denial-of-service (DoS) attack
control to prohibit any user that does not appear on the access
list or at the security level for privileged personnel, with
improved entry-reporting.
Product
Design
The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches that populate with the
WS-SUP720-3BXL are: the Cisco Catalyst 6503, the Cisco Catalyst
6509, the Cisco Catalyst 6509, the Cisco Catalyst 6509-NEB,
the Cisco Catalyst 6509-NEB-A, and the Cisco Catalyst 6513 switches.
For the Cisco 7600 Series Router/Switch Hybrids, the units that
can populate a WS-SUP720-3BXL are: the Cisco 7603, the Cisco
7606, the Cisco 7609, and the Cisco 7613.
There is a specific placement for the WS-SUP720-3BXL supervisor
engine depending on which Cisco chassis you will be utilizing
in your network. For all 3 slot chassis mentioned above (the
Cisco Catalyst 6503 and the Cisco 7603), the WSSUP7203BXL can
either run in slots one or two, which are hard-wired on the
backplane for management blades.
When deploying 6-slot chassis with a WS-SUP720-3BXL, slots 5
and 6 are the standard and exclusive slots to use, again because
of backplane placement of the PIN readout. So, if you are a
network administrator, or if you are in circuit provisioning,
verification of the backplane PIN readout is essential to successful
deployment.
For the 9-slot chassis (either switch or router), also slots
5 and 6 are used for management purposes and programming. This,
then, appears in the exact middle of the router or switch, allowing
for services network modules to be placed in the slots above
or below the supervisor engine or engines. NOTE: It is important
to remember that Cisco Systems designed these cards to be placed
in the switch fabric slots.
On the 13-slot switch (The Cisco Catalyst 6513) or the 13-slot
router (The Cisco 7613), the placement of the supervisory engines
moves to slots 7 and 8. This also appears in the center of the
switch or router, but look inside the switch or router to view
the backplane and one can match up the pins on the back of the
WS-SUP720-3BXL with the pins of the Cisco backplane, and ease
the supervisor module in slowly, pressing on both silver handles
slowly when installing. Also, a wise precaution is to use a
grounded static-guard on your wrist to ground yourself to the
frame or the relay rack. Static electricity from the user and
hand oils can make computer electronics cease to function.
The IOS (Internetworking Operating System) software that comes
standard with the WS-SUP720-3BXL is 12.2(17a) SXA.
For Memory, the Sup720 3BXL arrives standard with 1GB (Giga
Byte) DRAM for the route processor, 1GB DRAM for the switch
processor, and 64-MB of boot Flash memory (512 MB maximum) –
all on the supervisor engine. Flash Memory options include:
128 MB CF (Card Flash), 256 MB CF, and 512 MB CF – which
is removable flash memory.
The maximum number of connectivity ports on the WS-SUP720-3BXL
are:
- 2 Giga Bit Ethernet Ports
- 1 Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) Port
- 1 selectable SFP or auto-switching 10/100/1000 RJ-45 Port
When ordering the WS-SUP720-3BXL, it is vital to the operation
of the unit that you use a Cisco high speed fan tray. The normal
fan tray for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 series will not operate
in the unit. So, remember the high-speed fan tray for normal
output and unit operation.
The WS-SUP720-3BXL is very reliable making use of fast software
upgrades, Route Processor Redundancy + (RPR+), Online insertion
and removal (OIR), Cisco Nonstop Forwarding (NSF), and Cisco
Stateful Switchover (SSO).
Network management of the WS-SUP720-3BXL is accomplished via
Cisco IOS® Software command-line interface (simply console
into the WS-SUP720-3BXL at 9600 bauds per second, parity = none,
and your stop bit is 1). Other managing of the network module
is made possible through the CiscoWorks Application Suite, including
Resource Manager Essentials (RME) and CiscoWorks; Cisco 7600
Internet Router Manager (Element Management System) Internet
Solution Center (ISC).
The physical measurements of the WS-SUP720-3BXL are (H x W x
D): 1.6 x 15.3 x 16.3 in. (4.0 x 37.9 x 40.3 cm).
The power consumption and utilization for the WS-SUP720-3BXL
are AC (Alternating Current) = 394 watts; and DC (Direct Current)
= 315 watts of energy. The heat dissipation of the WS-SUP720-3BXL
is 1345 BTU (Body Temperature Units).
The environmental conditions for the WS-SUP720-3BXL are:
- Operating temperature: 32 to 104° F (0 to 40° Celsius)
- Storage temperature: -40 to 167° F (-40 to 75° Celsius)
- Relative humidity: 10 to 90%, non-condensing
- Regulatory compliance
Widespread element maintenance like QoS (Quality of Service)
apparatus, hardware-based generic-routing-encapsulation (GRE)
route tunneling, and easy-to-find access control lists (ACLs)
make possible customers to build superior-performance, characteristic-rich
networks proficient of offering services such as MPLS VPNs (Virtual
Private Networks), metropolitan (metro) aggregation, and various
other WAN edge services.
In
Summary, the WS-SUP720-3BXL provides an extensive array of network
features and benefits that can be exercised by any mid-size
to enterprise class network environment. The WS-SUP720-3BXL
has also withstood the test of time by utilizing switch fabric
services on a supervisor engine with successful network operability
for years.
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