
PA-7000 Series Firewall Module and Interface Card Information
PA-7000 20GQXM NPC
The difference between this NPC and the
is that the PA-7000 20GQ
NPC supports up to 4 million sessions and the PA-7000 20GQXM NPC supports up to 8 million
sessions. As of PAN-OS 9.0 and later, the PA-7000-20GQ NPC supports 3.2 million sessions.
The PA-7000 Series firewall must have PAN-OS 7.1 or later installed to use the
PA-7000-20GQXM-NPC.
for details on the components since they are the same as the
PA-7000 20GQXM NPC.
PA-7000 100G NPC
provides 100Gbps Ethernet connectivity. Use the following topics to
learn about requirements, descriptions of the NPC components, and how to interpret the LEDs.
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PA-7000 100G NPC Component Descriptions
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Interpret the PA-7000 100G NPC LEDs
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PA-7000 100G NPC Component Descriptions
The following images show the PA-7000 100G NPCs and the table describes the NPC
components.
Item
Component
Description
1
SFP ports
Eight small form-factor pluggable (SFP/SFP+)
1Gbps/10Gbps Ethernet ports.
2
QSFP ports
Four quad small form-factor pluggable (QSFP+/QSFP28)
40Gbps/100Gbps Ethernet ports as defined by the IEEE
802.3ba standard.
You can configure ports 25, 26, 27, and 28 as 40Gbps
or 100Gbps. As of PAN-OS 10.0, you can breakout four
ports from ports 9-24 at 10Gbps or 25Gbps each.
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