Supervisor Engine (Cisco)

The Cisco Supervisor Engine is the brain of many of Cisco's switches. The Supervisor Engine has evolved several times. While it is the management segment of many routers, the power of the switch is often much greater than that of the Supervisor Engine because one of the features of many switches is that dozens of the functions are accelerated by ASIC chips.

Abridged list of features:

  • 802.1q VLAN
  • Spanning Tree Protocol
  • Ether Channel
  • Jumbo Frames
  • (E)IGRP, OSPF, RIP (2), Static Routing
  • BGP, IS-IS
  • QOS
  • Some have Layer 3 & 4 Switching

Specifications
Supervisor Engine Mpps[1] Switching Layer Bandwidth[2] CPU Frequency Max Ram Max Flash OS Minimum IOS
1 15 2 1.2-32 25 MHz Motorola 68k 128MB 16MB CatOS N/A
2 30 2 18 150 MHz Mips R4700 128MB 16MB CatOS N/A
2+ 48 4 64 266 MHz R4700 256MB 32MB CatOS/IOS
3 15 4 ? 150-300 MHz 256MB ? IOS 12.1(8a)
4 48 4 64 333 MHz 512MB 128MB IOS 12.1(12c)
5 136 4 102 400-800 MHz 512MB ? IOS 12.2(18)
6 250 4 320 1.3 GHz 1GB ? IOS 12.2(40)
720 400-450 5 720 600 MHz 2GB 64MB CatOS/IOS
32 5 32 300 MHz IOS
2T[3] 720 5 2080 4GB 2GB IOS

Details
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See also

References
  1. Million 64k Packets switched Per Second
  2. in gigabits
  3. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/interfaces-modules/catalyst-6500-series-supervisor-engine-2t/data_sheet_c78-648214.html
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  • Chan, Jason; Arteaga, Frank (2004). Cisco catalyst switch troubleshooting handbook.
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