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Product Specifications

Chassis Compatibility

● Cisco 6503, 6503-E, 6404-E, 6506, 6506-E, 6509, 6509-E, 6509-NEB, 6509-NEB-A, 6513

● Cisco 7603, 7606, OSR-7609, 7609, 7613

Fan Tray and Power Supply Required

● High speed fan

● 2500W AC or DC

Slot Requirements

Occupies the switch fabric slots in the chassis:

● 3-slot chassis: slots 1 and 2

● 4-slot chassis: slots 1 and 2

● 6-slot chassis: slots 5 and 6

● 9-slot chassis: slots 5 and 6

● 13-slot chassis: slots 7 and 8

Software Compatibility

● Catalyst 6500 Series

WS-Sup720-3B: 8.3(2) and higher

● Native

WS-Sup720-3B: 12.2(17d)SXB1 and higher

● Cisco 7600 Series

WS-SUP720-3B supports Cisco IOS 12.2(17d)SXB1 and later

Protocols

● Layer 3 routing protocols, Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGPv4), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol(EIGRP), Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Distributed FIB Switching, Cisco Discover Protocol (CDP), Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)

● Traditional Protocols such as Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX), Appletalk, DECnet, Virtual Integrated Network Service (VINES), Connectionless Network Service (CLNS)

● Multicast forwarding, Protocol independent Multicast (PIM) (both sparse and dense mode), (S,G), (*,G), Bi-Directional PIM in hardware

● Comprehensive MPLS support

● Cisco Group Management Protocol and Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) snooping

Memory

WS-SUP720-3B supports 512MB of DRAM for the route processor and 512 MB for the switch processor, upgradeable to 1GB

Options

Removable storage: 64MB, 128 MB, 256 MB, 512 MB (Compact Flash)

Uplink Ports

Two Gigabit Ethernet ports, one Small Form-Factor Pl able (SFP), one selectable SFP or 10/100/100 RJ-45

Console Ports

One (RS-232)

Reliability and Availability

● FSU (Fast software upgrade)

● RPR+ (Route Processor Redundancy+)

● SSO+NSF (Stateful Switchover + Nonstop Forwarding)

● OIR (Online insertion and removal) Hot Swap

MIBs

MPLS LDP MIB, MPLS Label Switch Router (LSR) MIB, MPLS-TE MIB, MPLS VPN MIB

Network Management

Cisco Works

Physical Specifications

● (H x W x D): 1.6 x 15.3 x 16.3 in. (4.0 x 37.9 x 40.3 cm)

● Weight: 11.5 lb

Power Consumption

Sup720-3B (includes PFC3B, MSFC3): 6.72A (282W)

Scalability Table

VSS

No

Uplinks

2 Gigabit

IPv4 Routing

In hardware

Up to 400 Mpp

IPv6 Routing

In hardware

Up to 200 Mpps

L2 Bridging

In hardware

Up to 400 Mpps

MPLS

MPLS in hardware to enable use of layer 3 VPNs and EoMPLS tunneling. Up to 1024 VRFs with a total of up to 256,000 routes per system.

GRE

In hardware

NAT

Hardware assisted

MAC Entries

64,000

Routes

256,000 (IPv4);

128,000 (IPv6)

Netflow Entries

128,000

QoS Features

Layer-3 Classification and Marking Access Control Entries (ACEs)

32 K dedicated for QoS

Aggregate Rate-Limiting Location

Ingress port or VLAN and egress VLAN or Layer-3 port

Rate-Limiting Level Types

Committed Information Rate (CIR), Peak Information Rate (PIR)

CIR, PIR

Aggregate Traffic Rate- Limiting Policers

1023

Flow-Based Rate- Limiting Method; Number of Rates

Per source address, destination address, or full flow; 64 rates

MAC ACL’s Featuring per-Port/per VLAN Granularity

Yes

Security Features

ACE Counters

No

Port Security

Yes

IEEE 802.1x and 802.1x Extensions

Yes

VLAN and Router ACLs and Port ACLs

Yes

Security ACL Entries

32K

Reflexive ACLs

128K

uRPF Check in Hardware

Up to 6 paths

CPU Rate Limiters (DoS Protection)

10 special case rate limiters plus Control Plane Policing

Private VLANs

Yes

Number of Interfaces with Unique ACLs

512

MAC ACLs on IP

N0

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Intercept Hardware Acceleration

Yes

MPLS Features

Interface Support

LAN and WAN interface modules, as applicable

Label Imposition/Disposition (MPLS-PE), Swapping (MPLS-P)

Yes

Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)

Yes

Tag Distribution Protocol Support (TDP)

Yes

MPLS VPN

Yes

VRF Lite

Yes

QoS Mechanisms Using Experimental (EXP) Bits

Yes

MPLS-RSVP-TE

Yes

MPLS Differentiated Services (DiffServ)-Aware Traffic Engineering (MPLS-DS-TE)

Yes

MPLS Traceroute

Yes, see release notes for details

EoMPLS

Yes