Cisco Systems CRS-MSC-140G

The Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System offers industry-leading performance, advanced services intelligence, environmentally conscious design, and system longevity. The Cisco CRS-3 is powered by the Cisco QuantumFlow Array - a chipset architecture based on multidimensional engineering and Cisco IOS XR Software, a unique self-healing, distributed operating system.
Packet-based data communications are being replaced by video and rich media traversing the IP Next-Generation Network (NGN) in multiple directions, straining the architectural foundations of both public and private networks serving businesses and consumers. As part of the medianet, a media-aware Cisco IP NGN, the Cisco CRS-3 delivers continuous, always-on operations and scales easily from numerous single-chassis form factors to a massive multi-chassis system. Its design provides an industry-leading efficiency consuming lowest power, cooling and rack-space resources for an intelligent service-rich bandwidth capacity.
The Cisco CRS-3 Series Modular Services Card provides distributed forwarding engine capability for the Cisco CRS family. Optimized for high-speed edge applications, it provides massive VLAN scale and wire-rate hierarchical quality of service (QoS). 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, 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.

• Scales the Cisco CRS per-slot forwarding capacity 3.5 times, from 40 Gbps to 140 Gbps
• Always paired with the 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 high-speed edge applications with enhanced QoS
• Massive interface and VLAN scalability
• Wire-rate hierarchical QoS
• Layer 3 forwarding engine with industry-leading, wire-rate performance
• Additional services such as class of service (CoS) processing, Multicast, Traffic Engineering (TE), and statistics gathering are also performed at line-rate
• Supports up to 64,000 queues and 12,000 interfaces in hardware
• 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 SLA monitoring
• Supports several forwarding protocols, including IPv4, IPv6, and MPLS
• Enhanced performance with hardware-based prefix lookup for IPv4, IPv6, and MPLS
• Industry-leading environmental efficiency with a lower power and weight profile than competition