Supervisor Engine (Cisco)
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The Cisco Supervisor Engine is the brain of many of Cisco's switches. The Supervisor Engine has evolved several times. While it is the management segment of many routers, the power of the switch is often much greater than that of the Supervisor Engine because one of the features of many switches is that dozens of the functions are accelerated by ASIC chips.
Abridged list of features:
- 802.1q VLAN
- Spanning Tree Protocol
- Ether Channel
- Jumbo Frames
- (E)IGRP, OSPF, RIP (2), Static Routing
- BGP, IS-IS
- QOS
- Some have Layer 3 & 4 Switching[clarification needed]
Specifications[]
| Supervisor Engine | Mpps[1] | Switching Layer | Bandwidth[2] | CPU Frequency | Max Ram | Max Flash | OS | Minimum IOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | 2 | 1.2-32 | 25 MHz Motorola 68k | 128MB | 16MB | CatOS | N/A |
| 2 | 30 | 2 | 18 | 150 MHz Mips R4700 | 128MB | 16MB | CatOS | N/A |
| 2+ | 48 | 4 | 64 | 266 MHz R4700 | 256MB | 32MB | CatOS/IOS | |
| 3 | 15 | 4 | ? | 150-300 MHz | 256MB | ? | IOS | 12.1(8a) |
| 4 | 48 | 4 | 64 | 333 MHz | 512MB | 128MB | IOS | 12.1(12c) |
| 5 | 136 | 4 | 102 | 400-800 MHz | 512MB | ? | IOS | 12.2(18) |
| 6 | 250 | 4 | 320 | 1.3 GHz | 1GB | ? | IOS | 12.2(40) |
| 720 | 400-450 | 5 | 720 | 600 MHz | 2GB | 64MB | CatOS/IOS | |
| 32 | 5 | 32 | 300 MHz | IOS | ||||
| 2T[3] | 720 | 5 | 2080 | 4GB | 2GB | IOS |
Details[]
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Supervisor Engine I
Supervisor Engine II
Supervisor Engine II+
Supervisor Engine III
Supervisor Engine IV
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Supervisor Engine V
Supervisor Engine 6
Supervisor Engine 32
Supervisor Engine 720
MSFC1-3
|
See also[]
- Cisco IOS
- Catalyst switch
- Catalyst 6500
- Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches
References[]
- ^ Million 64k Packets switched Per Second
- ^ in gigabits
- ^ "Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 2T Data Sheet".
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- Cisco LAN Switch Configuration Handbook.
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