Cisco Catalyst Sup720 V S2T

Scalability

Name

VS-S2T-10G

VS-S2T-10G-XL

VS-S720-10G-3C *

VS-S720-10G-3CXL*

IPv4 routing

In hardware

In hardware

In hardware

In hardware

Up to 720 Mpps**

Up to 720 Mpps**

Up to 450 Mpps**

Up to 450 Mpps**

IPv6 routing

In hardware

In hardware

In hardware

In hardware

Up to 390 Mpps**

Up to 390 Mpps**

Up to 225 Mpps**

Up to 225 Mpps**

L2 bridging

In hardware

In hardware

In hardware

In hardware

Up to 720 Mpps**

Up to 720 Mpps**

Up to 450 Mpps**

Up to 450 Mpps**

MPLS

MPLS in hardware to enable use of Layer 3 VPNs and EoMPLS tunneling. Up to 8192 VRFs with a total of up to 256K* forwarding entries per system.

MPLS in hardware to enable use of Layer 3 VPNs and EoMPLS tunneling. Up to 8192 VRFs with a total of up to 1024K forwarding entries per system.

MPLS in hardware to enable use of layer 3 VPNs and EoMPLS tunneling. Up to 1024 VRFs with a total of up to 256,000 routes per system.

MPLS in hardware to enable use of layer 3 VPNs and EoMPLS tunneling. Up to 1024 VRFs with a total of up to 1,000,000 routes per system.

VLAN

4K

4K

4K

4K

Bridge domains

16k

16k

*

*

VPLS

In hardware (Up to 390 Mpps**)

In hardware (Up to 390 Mpps**)

*

*

GRE

In hardware (Up to 390 Mpps**)

In hardware (Up to 390 Mpps**)

In hardware

In hardware

NAT

Hardware assisted

Hardware assisted

Hardware assisted

Hardware assisted

MAC entries

128k

128k

96,000

96,000

Routes

256K(IPv4)

1024K (IPv4)

256,000 (IPv4);

1,000,000 (IPv4);

128K (IPv6)

512K (IPv6)

128,000 (IPv6)

500,000 (IPv6)

Netflow entries

512K

1024K

128,000

256,000

Multicast routes

128K (IPv4)

128K (IPv4)

*

*

128K (IPv6)

128K (IPv6)

*

*

QoS Features and Scalability

Feature

VS-S2T-10G

VS-S2T-10G-XL

VS-S720-10G-3C*

VS-S720-10G-3CXL*

Layer-3 classification and marking access control entries (ACEs)

64K shared for QOS / Security

256K shared for QOS/Security

32 K dedicated for QoS

32K dedicated for QoS

Aggregate traffic rate-limiting policers

16348

16348

1023

1023

Flow-based rate-limiting method; number of rates

Per source address, destination address, or full flow; 64 rates

Per source address, destination address, or full flow; 64 rates

Per source address, destination address, or full flow; 64 rates

Per source address, destination address, or full flow; 64 rates

Layer 2 rate limiters

20 ingress/6 egress

20 ingress/6 egress

*

*

MAC ACLs featuring per-port/per VLAN granularity

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Distributed policers

Yes

Yes

*

*

Shared uFlow policers

Yes

Yes

*

*

Egress uFlow policers

Yes

Yes

*

*

Packet or byte policers

Yes

Yes

*

*

Per port per VLAN

Yes

Yes

*

*

Security Features and Scalability

Feature

VS-S2T-10G

VS-S2T-10G-XL

VS-S720-10G-3C*

VS-S720-10G-3CXL*

Port security

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1x and 802.1x extensions

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

VLAN and router ACLs and port ACLs

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

1:1 mask ratio to ACE values

Yes

Yes

*

*

Security ACL entries

64K shared for QOS / Security

256K shared for QOS/Security

32K

32 K

CPU rate limiters (DoS protection)

57

57

10 special case rate limiters plus Control Plane Policing

10 special case rate limiters plus Control Plane Policing

uRPF check (IPv4/IPv6)

Up to 16

Up to 16

Up to 6 paths

Up to 6 paths

Number of interfaces with unique ACL

16k

16k

512

4000

RPF interfaces

16

16

*

*

Private VLANs

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

MAC ACLs on IP

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Logical interfaces

128k

128k

*

*

EtherChannel hash

8 bits

8 bits

3 bits

3 bits

Cisco TrustSec support (including L2 encryption)

Yes

Yes

No

No

CPU HW rate limiters by PPS or BPS

Yes

Yes

*

*

CoPP for multicast

L2 and L3 support

L2 and L3 support

*

*

CoPP for exceptions (MTU, TTL)

Yes

Yes

*

*

CoPP exceptions Netflow support

Yes

Yes

*

*

ACL labels

16K

16K

*

*

Port ACL

8K

8K

*

*

ACL dry run

Yes

Yes

*

*

Hitless ACL changes

Yes

Yes

*

*

MPLS and Virtualization Features

Feature

VS-S2T-10G

VS-S2T-10G-XL

VS-S720-10G-3C*

VS-S720-10G-3CXL*

VSS

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Label imposition/disposition (MPLS-PE), swapping (MPLS-P)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

MPLS VPN

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

VRF Lite

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

QoS mechanisms using experimental (EXP) bits

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

MPLS-RSVP-TE

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

MPLS differentiated services (diffserv)-aware traffic engineering (MPLS-DS-TE)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

MPLS traceroute

Yes

Yes

Yes, see release notes for details

Yes, see release notes for details

EoMPLS

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

EoMPLS tunnels

16k

16k

*

*

Native VPLS in HW

Yes

Yes

*

*

Native L2 over multipoint GRE

Yes

Yes

*

*

VRF-aware operational contexts

Yes

Yes

*

*

VPN Netflow support

Yes

Yes

*

*

VPN aware NAT

Yes

Yes

*

*

VRF-lite scalability

VLAN reuse per sub-interface

VLAN reuse per sub-interface

*

*

Per VPN interface statistics

Yes

Yes

*

*