Performance

22 Gbps switching fabric

73,000 (3 packet), 56,000 (6 packet) connections per second setup rate

240,000 concurrent sessions

More than 9 million pps wire-speed forwarding rate for 64-byte packets

MIPs RISC CPU-R5000, 16 MB Flash, 128 MB DRAM

Route Entries: 24,000 maximum

12 MB memory architecture shared by all ports

Packet forwarding rate for 64-byte packets:

• 14,880 pps for 10-Mbps ports

• 148,800 pps for 100BaseT ports

• 1,488,000 pps for 1000BaseX ports

Management

SNMP Management Information Base (MIB) II

Cisco Server Load-Balancing MIB

Standards

IEEE 802.3x full duplex on 10BaseT, 100BaseTX, and 1000BaseX ports

IEEE 802.1D Spanning-Tree Protocol

IEEE 802.1Q VLAN

IEEE 802.3z 1000BaseX specification

1000BaseX (GBIC)

• 1000BaseSX

• 1000BaseLX/LH

• 1000BaseZX

IEEE 802.3u 100BaseTX specification

IEEE 802.3 10BaseT specification

Y2K

Y2K compliant

Connectors and Cabling

10BaseT ports: RJ-45 connectors; two-pair Category 3, 4, or 5 unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cabling

100BaseTX ports: RJ-45 connectors; two-pair Category 5 UTP cabling

1000BaseX GBIC ports: SC fiber connectors, single mode or multimode fiber

Console and auxiliary port: RJ-45 connectors, RS-232 serial cabling

Indicators

Per-port status LEDs