Cisco Nexus 7700 Supervisor 2E Module - control processor

The Cisco Nexus 7700 Supervisor 2E (Supervisor 2 Enhanced) Module scales the control-plane and data-plane services for the Cisco Nexus 7700 switches in scalable data center networks. The enhanced supervisor module is designed to deliver control-plane and management functions. The supervisor controls the Layer 2 and 3 services, redundancy capabilities, configuration management, status monitoring, power and environmental management, and more. It provides centralized arbitration to the system fabric for all line cards.

The fully distributed forwarding architecture allows the supervisor to support transparent upgrades to I/O and fabric modules with greater forwarding capacity. Two supervisors are required for a fully redundant system, with one supervisor module running as the active device and the other in hot-standby mode, providing exceptional high-availability features such as stateful switchover and In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) on mission-critical data center-class products.