The NSE-100 is the forwarding engine/route processor for the Cisco 7300. In order to provide both a rich feature set and provide a forwarding rate of up to 3.5 Mpps, the NSE-100 utilizes Parallel eXpress Forwarding (PXF) technology to deliver hardware-accelerated network services and a RM7000 MIPS microprocessor to leverage various multi-protocol capabilities such as IPX, Appletalk, DLSw, SNAw, and other features from Cisco IOS.