Feature

Description

Performance of up to 2 Million Packets per Second (pps) in Cisco Express Forwarding Switching

• Doubles the performance compared to Cisco NPE-G1

• Dramatically increases the performance and scalability of the Cisco 7200VXR Series in WAN and MAN applications for both enterprises and service providers

• Helps enable maximum investment protection through the ability to upgrade processors incrementally

Backward Compatibility with Existing Port Adapters (with a few exceptions)

• Provides investment protection through backward compatibility .

Three Fixed Gigabit Ethernet Ports (10/100/1000-Mbps Copper or Small Form-Factor Pluggable Optics [SFP])

• Maximizes LAN connectivity and performance without taking up bandwidth points or midplane capacity

Built-in I/O Function (Compact Flash Memory, Console Port, Auxiliary Port, and Bootflash Memory)

• Reduces costs (Note: An I/O controller can still be used. The Cisco NPE-G2 is supported with the Cisco 7200VXR Series I/O controllers with the following part numbers: C7200-I/O, C7200-I/O-2FE, and C7200-I/O-GE+E.)

Support for Third Peripheral-Component-Interconnect (PCI) Bus to the I/O Controller Slot

• Frees the current I/O controller ports from bandwidth allocation, allowing two PCI buses to be dedicated to the port adapter slots

• Provides cost-effective way for a slot expansion by using port adapter jacket card

• Provides a dedicated slot for the high-performance VPN services adapter

Double the Speed of the PCI Bus on the I/O slot

• Dramatically increases the performance of Cisco 7200VXR Series VPN Services Adapter (VSA)

1 GB of DRAM Default Memory

Delivers the most amount of memory by default compared to existing Cisco 7200VXR Series network processing engines, offering the following benefits:

• Supports more routes and routing tables

• Supports more Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) virtual routing and forwarding instances (VRFs)

• Supports more sessions for broadband aggregation

• Helps enable higher scalability on features such as NetFlow, Network Address Translation (NAT), access control lists (ACLs), and more

• Offers post-first customer shipment (FCS) support for optional upgrade to 2 GB DRAM

Cisco IOS Software

• Supports a wide range of IP and non-IP network services, including quality of service (QoS), MPLS, broadband aggregation, integrated security, encryption, voice, and more

Dedicated Management for 10/100-Mbps Ethernet

• Reduces costs and protects port density of the chassis

Two USB Ports

• Provides a large, removable storage for files

• Stores security e-tokens for VPN applications

Digital Diagnostics on SFP Interfaces

• Provides a powerful tool that monitors many manageable parameters, including optical transmit and receive power, voltage and temperature measurement, and factory parameters

Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) on Copper Interfaces

• Provides an effective method of isolating fault at the remote end of the copper wire by monitoring reflected pulsed signals