Table 3-1 Features Supported on ML-Series cards
Feature
|
ML100T-12
|
ML100X-8
|
ML1000-2
|
Layer 1 Data
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
• IEEE 802.3z (Gigabit Ethernet) and IEEE 802.3x (Fast Ethernet) Flow Control
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•100BASE-FX full-duplex data transmission with Auto-MDIX (ML100X-8)
|
Y
|
Y
|
N
|
SONET/SDH
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
•High-level data link control (HDLC)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•(GFP-F) framing mechanism for POS
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•POS virtual ports
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•LEX or Point-to-Point
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Cisco HDLC
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Protocol/Bridging Control Protocol (PPP/BCP) encapsulation for POS
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•VCAT with SW-LCAS
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Layer 2 Feature Set
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
•Transparent bridging
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•MAC address learning, aging, and switching by hardware
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Protocol tunneling
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) protocol tunneling
|
N
|
N
|
N
|
•Integrated routing and bridging (IRB)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•IEEE 802.1Q-in-Q VLAN tunneling
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and IEEE 802.1W Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•IEEE 802.1D STP instance per bridge group
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Ethernet over Multiprotocol Label Switching (EoMPLS)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•EoMPLS traffic engineering (EoMPLS-TE) with RSVP
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•VLAN-transparent and VLAN-specific services (Ethernet Relay Multipoint Service [ERMS])
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
IEEE-RPR (802.17b)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
•Bridging as specified in the IEEE 802.17b spatially aware sublayer amendment
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Shortest path forwarding through topology discovery
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Addressing including unicast, multicast, and simple broadcast data transfers.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Bidirectionalmulticast frames flood around the ring using both east and west ringlets.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•The time to live (TTL) of the multicast frames is set to the equidistant span in a closed ring and the failed span in an open ring.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
RPR-IEEE Service Qualities
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
•Per-service-quality flow-control protocols regulate traffic introduced by clients.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Class A allocated or guaranteed bandwidth has low circumference-independent jitter.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Class B allocated or guaranteed bandwidth has bounded circumference-dependent jitter. This class allows for transmissions of excess information rate (EIR) bandwidths (with class C properties).
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Class C provides best-effort services.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
RPR-IEEE Design Strategies Increase Effective Bandwidths Beyond Those of a Broadcast Ring
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
•Clockwise and counterclockwise transmissions can be concurrent.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Bandwidths can be reallocated on nonoverlapping segments.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Bandwidth reclamation. Unused bandwidths can be reclaimed by opportunistic services.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Spatial bandwidth reuse. Opportunistic bandwidths are reused on nonoverlapping segments.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Temporal bandwidth reuse. Unused opportunistic bandwidth can be consumed by others.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
RPR-IEEE Fairness Features Ensure Proper Partitioning of Opportunistic Traffic
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
•Weighted fairness allows a weighted fair access to available ring capacity.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Aggressive fairness is supported.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Single Choke Fairness Supports generation, termination, and processing of Single Choke Fairness frames on both spans.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•RPR-IEEE plug-and-play automatic topology discovery and advertisement of station capabilities allow systems to become operational without manual intervention.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
RPR-IEEE Multiple Robust Frame Transmissions
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
•Service restoration time is less than 60 milliseconds after a station or link failure.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Queue and shaper specifications avoid frame loss in normal operation.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Fully distributed control architecture eliminates single points of failure.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Operations, administration, and maintenance support service provider environments.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•EoMPLS on RPR-IEE
|
N
|
N
|
N
|
•IP forwarding on RPR-IEEE
|
N
|
N
|
N
|
•Wrapping, the optional IEEE 802.17b protection scheme
|
N
|
N
|
N
|
• Steering, the protection scheme
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Layer 3 control path routing
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Cisco Proprietary RPR
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
•Ethernet frame check sequence (FCS) preservation for customers.
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) error alarm generation
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•FCS detection and threshold configuration
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Shortest path determination
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Keep alives
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
EtherChannel Support
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
•Bundling of ports
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Load based on MAC addresses
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Load Sharing based on incoming VLAN
|
N
|
N
|
N
|
•Load sharing based on Port
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•IRB
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•IEEE 802.1Q trunking
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
POS Channel
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
•Bundling the two POS ports
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•LEX encapsulation only
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•IRB
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•IEEE 802.1Q trunking
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Layer 3 Routing, Switching, and Forwarding
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
•Default routes
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•IP unicast and multicast forwarding
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Simple IP access control lists (ACLs) (both Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding path)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Extended IP ACLs in software (control-plane only)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•IP and IP multicast routing and switching between Ethernet ports
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF) multicast (not RPF unicast)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Load balancing among equal cost paths based on source and destination IP addresses
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•IRB routing mode support
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•IP host functionality
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Routing Protocols
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
•Virtual Private Network (VPN) Routing and Forwarding Lite (VRF Lite)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) Protocol
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Routing Information Protocol (RIP and RIP II)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Protocol
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)—Sparse, sparse-dense, and dense modes
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Secondary addressing
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Static routes
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Local proxy ARP
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Classless interdomain routing (CIDR)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Quality of Service (QoS)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
•Multicast priority queuing classes
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Service level agreements (SLAs) with 1-Mbps granularity
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Input policing
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Guaranteed bandwidth (weighted round-robin [WDRR] plus strict priority scheduling)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Low latency queuing support for unicast Voice-over-IP (VoIP)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Class of service (CoS) based on Layer 2 priority, VLAN ID, Layer 3 Type of Service/DiffServ Code Point (TOS/DSCP), and port
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•CoS-based packet statistics
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Metro Ethernet Feature Set: Ethernet Virtual Circuits
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
•Point-to-Point topology (UNI to UNI)
|
N
|
N
|
N
|
•Attribute Discovery Frames (ATD) for VLAN mapping
|
N
|
N
|
N
|
Security Features
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
•Cisco IOS login enhancements
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Secure Shell connection (SSH Version 2)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Disabled console port
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting/Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (AAA/RADIUS) stand alone mode
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•AAA/RADIUS relay mode
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Additional Protocols
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
•Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) support on Ethernet ports
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) relay
|
N
|
N
|
N
|
•Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) over 10/100 Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, FEC, GEC, and Bridge Group Virtual Interface (BVI)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
Management Features
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
•Cisco IOS
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•CTC
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•CTM
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Remote monitoring (RMON)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Transaction Language 1 (TL1)
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Simultaneous performance monitoring (PM) counter clearing in Cisco IOS, CTC, and TL1
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
System Features
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
•Automatic field programmable gate array (FPGA) Upgrade
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Network Equipment Building Systems 3 (NEBS3) compliant
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Version up to independently upgrade individual cards
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
CTC Features
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
Y (R 6.0 and above)
|
•Framing Mode Provisioning
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Standard STS/STM and VCAT circuit provisioning for POS virtual ports
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•SONET/SDH alarm reporting for path alarms and other ML-Series card specific alarms
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Raw port statistics
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Standard inventory and card management functions
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•J1 path trace
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Cisco IOS CLI Telnet sessions from CTC
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
•Cisco IOS startup configuration file management from CTC
|
Y
|
Y
|
Y
|
