[c-nsp] NPE-G1/G2 vs NSE-1

Lamar Owen lowen at pari.edu
Wed May 30 22:15:25 EDT 2007


On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Rodney Dunn wrote:
> Not aimed at Justin but to set the record straight..
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:35:16PM -0400, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 May 2007, Kanagaraj Krishna wrote:
> > >   What is the difference between this engine models on the 7200 series?
> > > From what I've gathered, the NPE supports multiservice requirement like
> > > IPv6 etc. As for the NSE, its more towards hardware based forwarding
> > > resulting in higher packet transmission and throughput. Am i right?
> >
> > The NSE-1 was originally designed to try to improve throughput by using
> > Parallel eXpress Forwarding (PXF),
>
> Ture. We still leverage that technology in other places. 10k, OSM's, NSE's
> for 73xx.

Ok, if I may ask, how does the NSE-1 for 7200 compare with the NSE 
implementation used in the 7401ASR?
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