Summary
This chapter discusses the hardware architecture of the Cisco 7500 series routers. The 7500 router architecture has a 1-Gbps data bus known as the CyBus. The central CPU on the RSP supports fast, optimum, and process switching methods. The VIP architecture distributes the packet switching operations to the VIP CPU scaling the 7500 architecture.
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