Cisco Systems C7200 manual Hardware Required, Features, Description/Benefit

Chapter 1 Overview

Hardware Required

1

Host IO Bus and PCI-X Bus

2

Power supply

The VSA provides hardware-accelerated support for multiple encryption functions:

•128/192/256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in hardware

•Data Encryption Standard (DES) standard mode with 56-bit key: Cipher Block Chaining (CBC)

•Performance to 900 Mbps encrypted throughput with 300 byte packets and 1000 tunnels

•5000 tunnels for DES/3DES/AES

•Secure Hash Algorithm1 (SHA-1) and Message Digest 5 (MD5) hash algorithms

•Rivest, Shamir, Adelman (RSA) public-key algorithm

•Diffie-Hellman Groups 1, 2 and 5

Hardware Required

The hardware required to ensure proper operation of the C7200 VSA is as follows:

•The C7200 VSA is compatible with the Cisco NPE-G2 processor on the Cisco 7204VXR or Cisco 7206VXR routers.

•ROMmon requirement—12.4(4r)XD5

•I/O FPGA requirement—0x25 (decimal 0.37)

•VSA FPGA requirement—0x13 (decimal 0.19)

Features

This section describes the VSA features, as listed in Table 1-1.

Table 1-1 VSA Features

Feature	Description/Benefit
Throughput1	Performance to 900 Mbps encrypted throughput using 3DES
	or AES on the Cisco 7204VXR and Cisco 7206VXR routers
Number of IPSec protected tunnels2	Up to 5000 tunnels3
Number of tunnels per second	Note: will update after further testing
Hardware-based encryption	Data protection: IPSec DES, 3DES, and AES
	Authentication: RSA and Diffie-Hellman
	Data integrity: SHA-1 and Message Digest 5 (MD5)
VPN tunneling	IPsec tunnel mode; Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) and
	Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) protected by IPSec
Minimum Cisco IOS software release	12.4(4)XD3 fc2 or later release of 12.4XD
supported	12.4(11)T or later release of 12.4T
Standards supported	IPSec/IKE: RFCs 2401-2411, 2451

1. As measured with IPSec 3DES HMAC-SHA1 on 1400 byte packets.

C7200 VSA (VPN Services Adapter) Installation and Configuration Guide

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