The NSE-100 is the forwarding engine/route processor for the Cisco 7304. In order to provide both a rich feature set and a forwarding rate of up to 3.5 Mpps, the NSE-100 utilizes PXF technology to deliver hardware-accelerated network services and a RM7000 MIPS microprocessor to leverage various multiprotocol capabilities such as IPX, AppleTalk, DLSw, SNAw, and other features from Cisco IOS.