Cisco 7600 Series Route Switch Processor 720

The Cisco 7600 RSP 720 uses the same high-performance 720-Gbps crossbar switch fabric as that used by the Cisco Catalyst® 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 720 and combines it with a new, revised, and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)-based forwarding engine. This single module delivers 40 Gbps of switching fabric capacity per slot, supporting 4-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 48-port 10/100/1000 density line cards. With hardware-enabled forwarding for IPv4, IPv6 Unicast and Multicast, and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), the Cisco RSP 720 can provide high-speed central forwarding with rich packet processing features such as access control lists (ACLs), quality of service (QoS), MPLS VPNs, and more. Combining the Cisco 7600 RSP 720 with distributed forwarding cards (DFCs), the total system performance can scale up to 400 Mpps.