NPE-G1 Cisco 7200 Series Network Processing Engine G1

NPE-G1 is the Cisco 7200 Series Network Processing Engine G1, the processor module for the 7204VXR and 7206VXR routers. It is built around a 700 MHz Broadcom BCM1250 processor and carries three fixed 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet ports on the card itself, in RJ-45 copper or GBIC fibre form. Those ports do not use up port adapter bandwidth points or midplane capacity, and all three support IEEE 802.1Q.

Switching performance reaches up to 1 million packets per second with Cisco Express Forwarding. The GBIC types supported are SX, LX/LH and ZX, so fibre runs of different lengths can be served from the processor card. The card also carries a console port and an auxiliary port and takes over the work of the I/O controller, so a separate I/O controller is not required, although one can still be fitted.

Memory comes as two SODIMMs: 256 MB (2 x 128 MB) is the default, with 512 MB (2 x 256 MB) and 1 GB (2 x 512 MB) as the larger choices. Compact Flash is 64 MB by default, with 128 MB and 256 MB available. NPE-G1 also has 512 KB of NVRAM, a 512 KB Layer 2 cache, ECC on the SDRAM and the Layer 2 cache, and 16 MB of packet memory with 256 MB of DRAM or 32 MB with 512 MB or 1 GB.

NPE-G1 is supported in the 7204VXR and 7206VXR chassis, and with all port adapters orderable for the 7200VXR as of August 1, 2002 except PA-A2-4T1C-OC3SM, PA-A2-4T1C-T3ATM, PA-A2-4E1XC-OC3SM and PA-A2-4E1XC-E3ATM. The spare number is NPE-G1=, memory modules are MEM-NPE-G1-256MB, MEM-NPE-G1-512MB and MEM-NPE-G1-1GB, and the Compact Flash disks are MEM-NPE-G1-FLD64, MEM-NPE-G1-FLD128 and MEM-NPE-G1-FLD256.

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