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[Switch Element] Forwarding Engine [Description] 
This is the chip with TCAM lookup tables and makes the routing and/or switching decisions. In other words, a table of addresses and output ports eg. an Ethernet frame with a destination MAC address 000c:1234:4567 is dispatched to Port 2.
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