The
Cisco
Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, ...
Supervisor Engine is the brain of many of Cisco's
switches
In electrical engineering, a switch is an electrical component that can disconnect or connect the conducting path in an electrical circuit, interrupting the electric current or diverting it from one conductor to another. The most common type of ...
. 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
An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC ) is an integrated circuit (IC) chip customized for a particular use, rather than intended for general-purpose use, such as a chip designed to run in a digital voice recorder or a high-efficien ...
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
Specifications
Details
Supervisor Engine I
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68EC040
* Chassis: 2900, 2948G, 2980G, 4000, 4500, 5000, 5500, 6000, 6500, 7600
Supervisor Engine II
* MIPS
R4700
The R4600, code-named "Orion", is a microprocessor developed by Quantum Effect Design (QED) that implemented the MIPS III instruction set architecture (ISA). As QED was a design firm that did not fabricate or sell their designs, the R4600 was f ...
* Chassis: 2926, 4000, 4500, 5000, 5500, 6000, 6500, 7600
Supervisor Engine II+
* MIPS
R4700
The R4600, code-named "Orion", is a microprocessor developed by Quantum Effect Design (QED) that implemented the MIPS III instruction set architecture (ISA). As QED was a design firm that did not fabricate or sell their designs, the R4600 was f ...
* Cisco Express Forwarding
* Chassis: 2926, 4000, 4500, 5000, 5500, 6000, 6500, 7600
Supervisor Engine III
* Cisco Express Forwarding
* Max DRAM: 256MB SD
* Redundant Capable
* Netflow accelerator card
Supervisor Engine IV
* Cisco Express Forwarding
* Max Flash: 64MB (supplemental Compact Flash optional)
Supervisor Engine V
* Cisco Express Forwarding
* Chassis: 4500
Supervisor Engine 6
* Cisco Express Forwarding
* Chassis: 4500 "E" Series
Supervisor Engine 32
* Cisco Express Forwarding
* Chassis: 6000, 6500, 7600
* A low cost, reduced version of the 720
* Policy Feature Card 3b
* MSFC 2A?
Supervisor Engine 720
* Cisco Express Forwarding
* Policy Feature Card 3A, 3B, 3BXL
* Chassis: 6500, 7600
MSFC1-3
* Multi-Layer Switch Feature Card
See also
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Cisco IOS
The Internetworking Operating System (IOS) is a family of proprietary network operating systems used on several router and network switch models manufactured by Cisco Systems. The system is a package of routing, switching, internetworking, and ...
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Catalyst switch
Catalyst is the brand for a variety of network switches, wireless controllers, and wireless access points sold by Cisco Systems. While commonly associated with Ethernet switches, a number of different types of network interfaces have been availa ...
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Catalyst 6500
The Cisco Catalyst 6500 is a modular chassis network switch manufactured by Cisco Systems from 1999 to 2015, capable of delivering speeds of up to "400 million packets per second".
A 6500 comprises a chassis, power supplies, one or two superv ...
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Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches
Catalyst is the brand for a variety of network switches, wireless controllers, and wireless access points sold by Cisco Systems. While commonly associated with Ethernet switches, a number of different types of network interface controller, networ ...
References
*http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps663/products_tech_note09186a00801a5d58.shtml
*http://www.ciscosystems.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps4324/product_data_sheet09186a00801fcaba.pdf
*http://www.cisco.ac/application/pdf/en/us/guest/products/ps4324/c1167/ccmigration_09186a008011b8da.pdf
*http://www.berkcom.com/resources/cisco/C6500_ccmigration_09186a00800887fd.pdf
*http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps663/products_tech_note09186a0080094645.shtml
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