Supervisor Engine is a module that is installed in the used network hardware Chassis-based Catalyst Switches or Routers. Supervisor engine contains nearly all the same components of a fixed Cisco Switches or Routers. These Supervisor engines come in a variety of different types with different functionalities and are installed in the Switches/Router Chassis as per requirements of the network types.
Benefits of Supervisor Engines
• By installing Latest Supervisor Engines in your existing investments (Switches and Routers) you can scale system performance and integrate next-generation services into your Networks.
• Within a single multilayer switch chassis, two supervisor modules with integrated route processors can be used to provide hardware redundancy. If an entire supervisor module fails, the other module can pick up the pieces and continue operating the switch
The supervisor engine contains the following integrated daughter cards that perform forwarding and routing and provide the cisco used equipment protocols supported on the router.
Policy Feature Card (PFC) is the forwarding plane and does the following:
• Performs Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding.
• Enforces access control list (ACL) functions.
• Performs policing and marking for quality of service (QoS) traffic.
Multilayer Switch Feature Card (MSFC) is the control plane and does the following:
• Performs routing for the chassis. The MSFC contains the route processor (RP) and Switch processor (SP) for the router.
• Runs Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols, such as the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and others.
You can View a 3D model of Catalyst 6500 Switch, here you can see how the Catalyst Switch 6500 looks like, Mount/Demount Supervisor engines, and other inserted modules, view short details of them by demounting from Chassis.
The Cisco Supervisor Engine is the heart of many of cisco used equipment 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:
802.1q VLAN
Spanning Tree Protocol
Ether Channel
Jumbo Frames
(E)IGRP, OSPF, RIP (2), Static Routing
BGP, IS-IS
QOS
Some have Layer 3 & 4 Switching
Specifications of Supervisor Engine
Supervisor Engine Mpps[1]
Switching Layer Bandwidth[2]
CPU Frequency Max Ram Max Flash OS Minimum IOS
1 15 2 1.2-32 25 MHz Motorola 68k 128MB 16MB CatOS N/A
2 30 2 18 150 MHz Mips R4700 128MB 16MB CatOS N/A
2+ 48 4 64 266 MHz R4700 256MB 32MB CatOS/IOS
3 15 4 ? 150-300 MHz 256MB ? IOS 12.1(8a)
4 48 4 64 333 MHz 512MB 64MB IOS 12.1(12c)
5 136 4 102 400-800 MHz 512MB ? IOS 12.2(18)
6 250 4 320 1.3 GHz 1GB ? IOS 12.2(40)
720 5 720 400/200 (MHz?) 1GB 64MB CatOS/IOS
32 5 IOS
Supervisor Engine I
68EC040
Chassis: 2900, 2948G, 2980G, 4000, 4500, 5000, 5500, 6000, 6500, 7600
Supervisor Engine II
MIPS R4700
Chassis: 2926, 4000, 4500, 5000, 5500, 6000, 6500, 7600
Supervisor Engine II+
MIPS R4700
Cisco Express Forwarding
Chassis: 2926, 4000, 4500, 5000, 5500, 6000, 6500, 7600
Supervisor Engine III
Cisco Express Forwarding
Max DRAM: 256MB SD
Redundant Capable
Netflow accelerator card
Supervisor Engine IV
Cisco Express Forwarding
Max Flash: 64MB (supplemental Compact Flash optional) Supervisor Engine V
Cisco Express Forwarding
Chassis: 4500
Supervisor Engine 6
Cisco Express Forwarding
Chassis: 4500 "E" Series
Supervisor Engine 32
Cisco Express Forwarding
Chassis: 6000, 6500
A low cost, reduced version of the 720
Policy Feature Card 3b
MSFC 2A?
Supervisor Engine 720
Cisco product Express Forwarding
Policy Feature Card 3A, 3B, 3BXL
Chassis: 6500, 7600
MSFC1-3
Multi-Layer Switch Feature Card
- U.S. technology giant Cisco Nov. 14 unveiled the second generation of its platform for telemedicine, known as Healthpresence, focusing its efforts on India where at least 175 million rural dwellers lack access to any health care services.
Healthpresence allows physicians in several countries to remotely conduct consultations with patients who may be hundreds of miles away. In India, private hospitals, the defense sector and state governments in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh have signed on to use Healthpresence; the service is already available in 11 districts and can be accessed by up to one million people.
“In India, there’s a huge mismatch between the availability of doctors and where they’re needed,” Vishal Gupta, vice president and general manager of wholesale Cisco Global Healthcare Solutions, told India-West by teleconference from Bangalore, where he is based. Patients must often travel hundreds of miles to see a physician, he said, noting that the need for doctors and specialists is most acute in rural India.
“We want to be the ATM of healthcare services,” said Gupta, envisioning Healthpresence kiosks in a variety of rural and semi-urban settings, such as malls.
An earlier version of the product, which was released two years ago, required Cisco’s Telepresence, a high bandwidth platform. But the version of Healthpresence rolled out buy Cisco last week can be used on low bandwidth platforms, including desktop computers.
Healthpresence 2.0 features the flexibility to be used across several platforms, from a high-end Telepresence-based system, to a low bandwidth version which is portable and can be used in a mobile medicine van, said Gupta, noting that bandwidth is still an issue in many remote parts of India.
The new version of Healthpresence can be maintained on a server by a service provider who provides repairs and updates to the system, eliminating the need for an in-house IT specialist and lowering the overall cost, said Gupta.
Healthpresence patients sit in a special consulting room – known as a primary health care center - which has a screen allowing them to see their doctor, and specialized diagnostic equipment including a digitized stethoscope which allows a doctor to listen to his patient’s heart and lungs remotely.
A digitized torch and otoscope allow the physician to remotely examine a patient’s ears, nose and throat.
Healthpresence can also be used by specialists.
Sunita Maheshwari, a Bangalore-based pediatric cardiologist and founder of RxDx, which uses Healthpresence to connect to patients in the low-income district of Raichur in northen Karnataka, said Cisco’s product works very well in telemedicine.
“We were skeptical at first, wondering will rural India’s villages accept such technology. But they’re really thrilled because they have a doctor out there for the first time,” the Indian American Maheshwari, who was trained at Yale, told India-West.
RxDx remote clinics provide primary care doctors from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on a walk-in basis, and appointments can be made for consultations with specialists. The clinic has a staff of 70 physicians, with a mix of specialties, including pediatrics, and serves about 600 patients a month in Raichur, which is an overnight train journey from Bangalore.
Maheshwari – dubbed the “Queen of Hearts” by India Today magazine – said she hopes to next hook up with practices in remote states such as Bihar to provide Healthpresence services there. She estimated that one-quarter of India’s 700 million village dwellers – 175 million people – currently lack access to any healthcare services.
The Osmania University alumnus said the desktop version of Healthpresence was very scalable and could be used anywhere. “I could be sitting anywhere and treating patients not just in Raichur, but also in Tanzania,” she asserted.
The need for access to healthcare in India has gone up phenomenally with the advent of chronic diseases in the population. The country accounts for 60 percent of the world’s heart disease patients, according to data released last year by the World Health Organization, and is home to 35 million diabetics, the largest number on the globe.
Cancer is also on the rise with almost 400,000 people in India dying each year from various types of the disease. The overall oncology market is growing at about 20 percent per annum, Pradeep Jaisingh, founder and CEO of New Delhi-based International Oncology, told India-West in June.
Gupta stated that the Indian government has shown its commitment to telemedicine, promising to increase funding to public health care.
And in September, Sachin Pilot, India’s young Minister of Communications and Information Technology, unveiled a plan that would lay out 500,000 miles of optical fibre throughout the country, bringing high-speed connectivity to every remote area of India within the next two years.
