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Product Specification	Model	NX-PBPL-1S	NX-PBPL-1SC	NX-PBPL-1S2	NX-PBPL-1M	NX-PBPL-1L	NX-PBPL-2M	NX-PBPL-2L	NX-PBPL-3XL	NX-PBPL-4L
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	Switch Packet Processor	Broadcom Trident 2+ (BCM56864)	Broadcom Trident 3 (BCM56277)	Broadcom Trident 3 (BCM56771)	Broadcom Qumeran MX (BCM88375)	Broadcom Trident 3 (BCM56873)	Broadcom Tomahawk (BCM56960)	Broadcom Trident 3 (BCM56870)	Broadcom Tomahawk III (BCM56980)	Broadcom Jericho2 (BCM88690) & Broadcom OP2 (BCM16K)
	Dimensions (WxHxD)	44.3 x 4.4 x 47.3 cm	44.0 x 4.4 x 35.0 cm	44.3 x 4.4 x 47.3 cm	44.3 x 4.4 x 47.3 cm	43.8 x 4.4 x 53.6 cm	43.8 x 4.4 x 51.5 cm	43.8 x 4.4 x 51.5 cm	43.8 x 4.3 x 53.6 cm	43.6 x 16.2 x 87.7 cm
	Network Interfaces	48x SFP+ 10/100/1000M Copper, or 1/2.5/10 Gbe/GbaseT 6x QSFP 40 Gbe or 24x 1/2.5/10 Gbe	48x RJ45 10/100/1000 Mbps 6x SFP+: 1/10 Gbe	48x SFP+ 1/10 Gbe 6x QSFP28 40/100 Gbe	48x SFP+ 10/100/1000M Copper or 1/2.5/10 Gbe/GbaseT 6x QSFP28 1/10/40/50/100 Gbe, or 12x 50 Gbe, or 24x 1/10/25 Gbe	48x SFP28 1/10 Gbe Copper or 1/10/25 Gbe 8x QSFP28 1/10/25/ 40/50/100 Gbe or 16x 50 Gbe or 32x 1/10/25 Gbe	32x QSFP28 40/100 Gbe or 128x 1/10/25 Gbe	32x QSFP28 40/100 Gbe or 64x 50 Gbe or 128x 1/10/25 Gbe	32x QSFP-DD 10/25/50/ 100/200/400 Gbe or 64x 40 Gbe or 128x 10/25/50/100 Gbe	40x QSFP28 40/100 Gbe, or 80x 10/25 Gbe
Management	User interface full coverage (CLI, Netconf, SNMP, WebUI)	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	Stacking (w/o additional license fees)	✅ Only /w other -1S PacketLion	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌
Ports	MTU	9,400 bytes	9,400 bytes	9,400 bytes	9,216 bytes	9,400 bytes	9,400 bytes	9,400 bytes	9,400 bytes	9,416 bytes
	TX queues	12MB	4MB	32MB	6GB Deep Buffer	32MB	16MB	32MB	64MB	8GB Deep Buffer
	Port Labeling (VLAN tagging)	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	MPLS stripping	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌
	PRBS	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
	Pre emphasis settings	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
	Ignore bad CRC	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
Rules	UDF	2 UDF windows 8/16 and 16 bytes	up to 15 windows of 30 bytes in total	up to 15 windows of 30 bytes in total	2 UDF windows 3/16 and 16 bytes	up to 15 UDF windows of 30 bytes in total	2 UDF windows of 16 bytes	up to 15 UDF windows 30 bytes in total	up to 16 UDF windows 32 bytes in total	16 UDF windows 32 Bytes total
	Number of filters	8,191	3,070	3,070	12,288	3,070	1,023	3,070	1,023	12,287
	HW Exact match IP filters	❌	❌	110,000	❌	110,000	15,000	110,000	40,000	❌
Rules Classifiers	MAC address filtering	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	Ethertype	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	Vlan	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	Inner Vlan	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
	MPLS Labels (4 Labels) and masks	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
	DSCP	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	Protocol Number	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	L3 fragments	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	L3 packet length	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
	IPv4 Filtering	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	IPv6 Filtering	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	L4 ports (source, destination)	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	TCP Flags	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	MPLS Tunnel Filtering	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	GTP Tunnel Filtering	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	L2TP Tunnel Filtering	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	PPPoE Tunnel Filtering	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	GRE Tunnel Filtering	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
VxLAN Tunnel Filtering	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Packet processing	MAC replace	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌<
	Vlan editing	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌<
	Data slicing	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	❌<
	Port timestamping	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌<
	Rule timestamping	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌<
Load-Balancing	Number of groups	99	99	99	99	99	99	99	99	64
	Round robin	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
	Hash based	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
	Random	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
	Hash Keys	Input interface, MPLS, L2, L3, L4, GTP TEID	Input interface, MPLS, L2, L3, L4, GTP TEID	Input interface, MPLS, L2, L3, L4, GTP TEID	MPLS, L2, L3, L4	Input interface, MPLS, L2, L3, L4, GTP TEID	Input interface, MPLS, L2, L3, L4, GTP TEID	Input interface, MPLS, L2, L3, L4, GTP TEID	Input interface, MPLS, L2, L3, L4, GTP TEID	L2, L3, L4
	Dynamic Load Balancing	❌	❌	✅	❌	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌
	Ports redundancy (standby ports)	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Inline Solution	Inline tools and heartbeat	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	Inline tool chains	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	Inline load balancing	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
IP Interfaces	Number of IP interfaces	99	1022	1022	❌	99	99	99	99	❌
GRE Tunneling	Number of GRE interfaces	99	1022	1022	n/a	99	99	99	n/a	n/a
	L2 GRE termination	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌
	L3 GRE termination	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌