Supervisor Engine (Cisco)


The Cisco Supervisor Engine is the brain of many of Cisco's switches. The Supervisor Engine has evolved several times. While it is the management segment of many routers, the power of the switch is often much greater than that of the Supervisor Engine because one of the features of many switches is that dozens of the functions are accelerated by ASIC chips.
Abridged list of features:
Supervisor EngineMppsSwitching LayerBandwidthCPU FrequencyMax RamMax FlashOSMinimum IOS
11521.2-3225 MHz Motorola 68k128MB16MBCatOSN/A
230218150 MHz Mips R4700128MB16MBCatOSN/A
2+48464266 MHz R4700256MB32MBCatOS/IOS
3154?150-300 MHz256MB?IOS12.1
448464333 MHz512MB128MBIOS12.1
51364102400-800 MHz512MB?IOS12.2
625043201.3 GHz1GB?IOS12.2
720400-4505720600 MHz2GB64MBCatOS/IOS
32532300 MHzIOS
2T720520804GB2GBIOS

Details

Supervisor Engine I
Supervisor Engine II
Supervisor Engine II+
Supervisor Engine III
Supervisor Engine IV
Supervisor Engine V
Supervisor Engine 6
Supervisor Engine 32
Supervisor Engine 720
MSFC1-3