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Extensivefeaturesupportsuchas QoS mechanisms, hardware-based generic-routing-encapsulation (GRE) tunneling,
and access control lists (ACLs) enable customers to build high-performance, feature-rich networks capable of
offering services such as MPLS VPNs, metropolitan (metro) aggregation, and various WAN edge services.
Figure 1
Cisco Sup 720-3BXL
Key Features and Benefits
Table 1 Features and Benefits
Feature Benefits
Integrated 720-Gbps switch fabric • Integrated switch fabric saves up to 2 slots, allowing
more slots for line cards
• 40 Gbps per slot supports high-density Gigabit Ethernet
and 10 Gigabit Ethernet
1 million routes for IPv4 FIB table • Scalability for supporting large routing tables
MPLS features • Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs, ATM over MPLS (AToM), traffic
engineering, resiliency
Hardware-based IPv4 and IPv6 features • High performance and scalability
ACLs, ACL counters, and CPU rate limiting • Security, denial-of-service (DoS) attack control, and
enhanced statistics