Cisco Route Switch Processor 4 Enhanced XL scale - Control processor - plug-in module - for P/N: N560-4-E, N560-4-SYS-E-BUN1, N560-4-SYS-E-V

The Cisco Route Switch Processor 4 is the powerful centralized engine that is designed to accommodate programmable deployment models and convergence of advanced Layer 2 and Layer 3 services. It addresses the evolving requirements for converged service provider networks, delivering a variety of advanced technologies for Mobile xHaul, Radio Access network Aggregation (RAN), Carrier Ethernet and Data-Center-Interconnect (DCI), such as MPLS, Segment Routing, Segment Routing Traffic Engineering, advanced Ethernet VPN technologies. The RSP4 helps service providers add innovative traffic management, packet switching, intelligent routing and service creation features.

• Delivers essential Carrier Ethernet technologies such as Hierarchical Quality of Service (H-QoS), IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, Segment Routing, Segment Routing Traffic Engineering (SR-TE), On demand Next Hop (ODN), Topology Independent Loop Free Alternate (TI-LFA), Layer 2 VPN (VPLS/H-VPLS), Ethernet VPN (EVPN-VPWS) and Layer 3 VPN services
• Provides advanced per-traffic-class metering and offers bidirectional packet-count and byte-count statistics
• Provides flexible and high service scalability in a small footprint, delivering high performance and scale for point-to-point and multipoint services, accommodating the requirements from the most demanding wireline and wireless applications
• Offers integrated support for the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Building Integrated Timing Supply (BITS), 10 MHz, 1 Pulse Per Second (1 PPS), and Time Of Day (TOD) interfaces, crucial functions required in a modern unified network
• Contains the Out-Of-Band (OOB) management interfaces for the system