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Figure 27: AS MLC Installed in the MX960 Router Chassis
AS MLC Components
Each AS MLC consists of the following components:
AS MLC Modular Carrier Card (AS MCC), which fits vertically in front of the MX960
router, includes two slots for the Application Services Modular Storage Card (AS MSC)
and Application Services Modular Processing Card (AS MXC)
AS MXC with 64 GB RAM for processing
AS MSC with 400 GB NAND Flash capacity for modular storage
NOTE:
The AS MCC, AS MXC, and AS MSC are hot-removable and
hot-insertable.
Switch fabric interfaces to the chassis
XM ASIC chip, which owns and manages the packet data memory built from external
DDR3 memory chips, the fabric queuing system, a portion of the WAN queuing system,
and the host queuing system
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