The Cisco Distributed Forwarding Card (DFC) 3B, part number WS-F6K-DFC3B=, is a high-performance switching accelerator designed for enhanced processing capability in Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches. Providing improved scalability, this module is engineered for demanding network tasks and helps boost overall throughput by offloading certain packet forwarding responsibilities from the supervisor engine to the line cards.
This device is particularly well-suited for large-scale enterprise, data centre, or service provider environments, enabling line-speed forwarding for both Layer 2 and Layer 3 traffic. It features a hardware-based packet forwarding mechanism that improves the speed of operations, especially for environments with high volumes of traffic. It supports various forwarding technologies such as IP switching, MPLS, and QoS classifications, ensuring versatility across multiple physical and logical environments.
The DFC 3B ensures high availability and reliability through redundancy features that can provide a backup in case of failure in one forwarding engine. Additionally, this card allows for higher distributed forwarding performance, resulting in an increase of the total forwarding capacity. It operates with devices using compatible Cisco supervisor engines and line cards.
The design of the Cisco DFC 3B supports a wide range of advanced switching functionalities, such as handling large routing tables, thereby enhancing routing decisions significantly. It is optimised for maximal efficiency, allowing network administrators to maintain leading-edge performance in mission-critical networks.
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