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  • 1.  how to understand SPC and NPC

    Posted 01-29-2013 04:15

    I found some defintations ,but still can't get a clear understanding on them

    would u like to give me more detail on this?



  • 2.  RE: how to understand SPC and NPC
    Best Answer

    Posted 01-29-2013 05:07

    In a nutshell:

     

    SPCs process all available services such as IDP, IPSec etc.

     

    NPCs are used to distribute inbound and outbound traffic to the appropriate SPCs and IOCs and responsible for QoS and DoS, DDoS protections, screens etc etc.

     

    Here is the packet flow for high-end devices:

     

    1) Packet enters through IOC.
    2) Packet traverses the switch fabric from the IOC to NPC. NPC performs a flow lookup. If the packet belongs to an existing flow, NPC forwards the packet to the SPC associated with the session. If the flow doesn’t currently exist, NPC install a new session and assigns the flow to an SPC for further processing. NPC also performs CoS, policing and shaping
    3) Packet traversed switch fabric  to its associated SPC in which security processing and forwarding/routing occur.
    4) Packet travers the switch fabric back to an NPC in which packet processing,shaping,CoS occur.
    5) Packet travers the switch fabric to IOC associated with the agress interface and sent to physical medium.

     

     



  • 3.  RE: how to understand SPC and NPC

    Posted 02-23-2013 18:38

    and with services offload the npc takes on some traffic flow and offloads it to the npc. The NPC is basically a pfe for I/O ports. And if you talk with your sales team they will confirm that new IOCs will be created that may not require the use of an NPC module physically.