5520 Series Universal Edge/Aggregation-Switch Platform

5520-VIM-4X

5520-VIM-4XE

5520-VIM-4YE

Software Scaling Values

5520 with Switch Engine

 • MAC Table: 114,688/65,536

 • IPv4 ARP Table: 60,000/41,000*

 • IPv4 Route Table: 81,000/16,000*

 • IP Multicast Entries (S,G,V): 43,000/24,000*

 • IPv6 ND Table: 18,000

 • IPv6 Route Table: 40,000/8,000*

 • ACL (Ingress/Egress): 9,216/1,024

 • QoS Egress Queues/Port: 8

 • VLANs: 4,094

 • Routed VLANS: 2,048

One Policy Scaling  

• Policy Profiles: 63 

 • Unique permit/deny rules per switch: 8,120 

 • Authenticated policy users/switch: 9,216

5520 with Fabric Engine

• MAC Table: 40,960 (81,920 non-Fabric) 

 • IPv4 ARPARP/IP Host Table: 16,000/48,000 

 • IPv4 Route Table: 15,500 

 • IP Multicast Routes: 4,000 

 • IPv6 ND Table: 16,000 

 • IPv6 Route Table: 7,500 

 • IPv4 ACL (Ingress/Egress): 1,024/336 

 • QoS Egress Queues/Port: 8 

 • VLANs: 4,059 

 • Routed VLANS: 500

Fabric Connect Scaling

• Fabric Adjacencies per switch: 128 

 • Fabric nodes per area (BEB + BCB): 800 

 • BEB Nodes per VSN: 500 

 • L2 VSN: 3500 

 • L3 VSN: 256