• Performance and capability
– 848 Gbps switching capacity with 250 Mpps of throughput
– 4 nonblocking 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks (Small Form-Factor
Pluggable Plus [SFP+])
– SFP support on uplinks to offer flexibility for up to 4 Gigabit
Ethernet ports
– 384 ports of nonblocking 10/100/1000
– PoEP (30W) capabilities on all ports in a line card simultaneously
– UPOE (60W) capabilities on all line-card slots
– Energy Efficient Ethernet (IEEE 802.3az)
– 196 ports of nonblocking Gigabit Ethernet SFP
– 100 ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ (4 uplinks ports + 96 line-
card ports)
– 128,000 FNF entries in hardware
– External USB and Secure Digital (SD) card support for flexible
storage options
– 256,000 routing entries for high-end campus access and
aggregation deployments
– IPv6 support in hardware, providing wire-rate forwarding for IPv6
networks
– Dynamic hardware forwarding-table allocations for ease of IPv4-
to-IPv6 migration
– Scalable routing (IPv4, IPv6, and multicast) tables, Layer 2 tables,