Sophisticated QoS and Traffic Management

∙IGMP v1, v2, and v3

∙IGMP filtering on access and trunk ports

∙IP Multicast routing protocols: PIM, SSM, and Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP)

∙Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM)

∙Cisco Group Multicast Protocol server

∙Full Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) support

∙ICMP Router Discovery Protocol

∙Policy-based routing (PBR)

∙Virtual Route Forwarding lite (VRF-lite)

∙IPv6 (software switched)

∙OSPF fast convergence

∙Per-port QoS configuration

∙Support for four queues per port

∙Strict priority queuing

∙IP differentiated services code point (DSCP)

∙Classification and marking based on IP type of service (ToS) or DSCP

∙Classification and marking based on full Layer 3 and Layer 4 headers

∙Input and output policing based on Layer 3 and Layer 4 headers

∙Support for 512 policers on ingress and 512 policers on egress

∙Shaping and sharing output queue management

∙DBL—congestion-avoidance feature

∙No performance penalty for granular QoS functions

∙Per-port, per-vlan QoS

Predictable Performance

∙136 Gbps switching fabric

∙Layer 2 hardware forwarding at 102 mpps

∙Layer 3 hardware-based IP Cisco Express Forwarding routing at 102 mpps

∙Layer 4 TCP/User Datagram Protocol (UDP) hardware-based filtering at 102 mpps

∙No performance penalty with advanced Layer 3 and Layer 4 services enabled

∙Software-based learning at a sustained rate of 3000 hosts per second

∙Support for 55,000 unicast and 16000 multicast MAC addresses

∙Support for 32,000 entries in routing table (shared between unicast and multicast)

∙Scalability to 2000 virtual ports (VLAN port instances)

∙Bandwidth aggregation up to 40 Gbps using Cisco Gigabit Ethernet EtherChannel technology

∙Hardware-based multicast management

∙Hardware-based ACLs, router ACLs (RACLs), VLAN ACLs

∙Manageable through Cisco Network Assistant

∙Single console port and single IP address to manage all system features

∙Software configuration management, including local and remote storage

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