On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 at 20:39, James Bensley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Back in the 7600s it was NPU based, and what we call NPUs today are > sometimes a collection of ASICs that form a "complex of ASICs". That > is what powered the 7600, the NP3C NPU. 7600s used a group of ASICs > working together to perform forwarding lookups, buffering, backplane > sending/receiving etc. NP3C was on ES20+ (not ES20). The ASR9k Trident was the same EZchip NP3C. But of course the vast majority of 7600 linecards were PFC3, clearly not a NPU. -- ++ytti _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
