| silicon switching engine
A
routing and switching mechanism that compares the data link or network layer
header of an incoming packet to a silicon-switching cache, determines the
appropriate action (routing or bridging), and forwards the packet to the proper
interface. The SSE is directly encoded in the hardware of the SSP (Silicon
Switch Processor) of a Cisco 7000 series router. It can therefore perform
switching independently of the system processor, making the execution of
routing decisions much quicker than if they were encoded in software. See also
silicon switching and SSP (Silicon Switch
Processor).
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