Cisco CRS-3 Forwarding Processor Card - Control processor - remanufactured - plug-in module
- Always paired with interface module through the chassis mid-plane, thus occupying one-half of a slot
- Can be paired with a variety of interface modules, providing deployment flexibility
- Can be mixed with 40-Gbps-per-slot modules occupying other slots in the chassis
- Features two 140-Gbps forwarding ASICs for discreet ingress and egress packet handling
- Single-flow Layer 3 traffic processing at 140 Gbps in each direction
- Enhanced onboard multi-core CPU for accelerated software processing
- Optimized for peering edge and core applications
- Supports up to 8 queues per port
- Built-in hardware acceleration for critical network control traffic
- Built-in support for video monitoring for a rich video quality of experience (QoE)
- Accurate hardware-assisted time-stamping support for service-level agreement (SLA) monitoring
- Supports several forwarding protocols, including IPv4, IPv6 and MPLS
- Enhanced performance with hardware-based prefix lookup for IPv4, IPv6, and MPLS
The Cisco CRS-3 Forwarding Processor Card provides distributed forwarding engine capability for the Cisco CRS family. It is responsible for data-plane processing tasks, handling all network traffic flows through it. The card performs all baseline packet routing operations, including Layer 3 forwarding, Quality-of-Service (QoS) classification, policing and shaping, security access control lists (ACLs), VPNs, load balancing, and NetFlow. The performance highlights of the card include hardware-assisted policing, and jitter- and latency-minimizing multicast packet replication.
