CISCO WS-F6700-DFC3A

The DFC3A Distributed Forwarding Card is a field-upgradable daughter card for the WS-X67xx interface modules, enabling "pay as you grow" performance and service enhancements. Designed expressly for use with Cisco IOS Software, this daughter card is compatible with the new Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 720 and enables full local-distributed forwarding of packets up to 48 Mpps per interface card, with Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series system throughput of up to 400 Mpps. The DFC3A supports hardware-accelerated IPv6, generic routing encapsulation (GRE), Network Address Translation (NAT), egress policing, and more. This card is ideal for high-performance enterprise distribution-core, data center, and Metro Ethernet deployments.