A router has to make a forwarding decision for every packet: look up the destination, pick an outgoing interface and next hop, rewrite the Layer 2 header and send it. How that decision is made determines how fast the device can forward. Cisco devices have used three generations of switching methods, and ENCOR expects you to know how they differ and which tables are involved.
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