As businesses depend more and more on the network as a strategic business asset, they continually place higher demands on it. The Cisco® Catalyst® 4500 E-Series Switches are well suited for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and can easily scale to accommodate business and network expansion. These high-capacity modular switches deliver a flexible foundation to support both IT and business objectives, and help ensure business resiliency with high-availability features.
Each Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series chassis offers different numbers of card slots and can accommodate a variety of line cards and supervisor engines. Customers can choose 48-port 10/100, 10/100/1000, and Power over Ethernet (PoE) line cards. These cards can be added to the chassis as needed to customize an access, distribution, server aggregation, or commercial core platform. The 24-Gb-per-slot line cards can be used together with the classic 6-Gb-per-slot line cards in any of the Catalyst 4500 E-Series chassis. Classic and Catalyst 4500 E-Series line cards may be mixed and matched within a Catalyst 4500 E-Series chassis without any performance degradation. Tables 1-5 provide information for various deployment scenarios.
Table 1. User Access
Deployment Specification
Chassis
Line Card Options
Line Card Part Numbers
Supervisor Engine
Up to 108 ports of any access type
Catalyst 4503-E
(WS-C4503-E)
48-port 10/100
WS-X4148-RJ
Supervisor Engine II-Plus-TS
(WS-X4013+TS)
48-port 10/100 PoE
WS-X4248-RJ45V
48-port 10/100/1000
WS-X4548-GB-RJ45
48-port 10/100/1000 PoE
WS-X4548-GB-RJ45V
Up to 240 ports of any access type
Catalyst 4506-E
(WS-C4506-E)
48-port 10/100
WS-X4148-RJ
Supervisor Engine II-Plus (WS-X4013+)
48-port 10/100 PoE
WS-X4248-RJ45V
48-port 10/100/1000
WS-X4548-GB-RJ45
48-port 10/100/1000 PoE
WS-X4548-GB-RJ45V
Up to 240 ports of PoE with dual supervisor engines for enhanced resiliency
Catalyst 4507R-E
(WS-C4507R-E)
48-port 10/100
WS-X4148-RJ
Supervisor Engine II-Plus (WS-X4013+)
48-port 10/100 PoE
WS-X4248-RJ45V
48-port 10/100/1000
WS-X4548-GB-RJ45
48-port 10/100/1000 PoE
WS-X4548-GB-RJ45V
Up to 240 ports of any access type with optional NetFlow capability
Catalyst 4507R-E
(WS-C4507R-E)
48-port 10/100 PoE
WS-X4248-RJ45V
Supervisor Engine IV (WS-X4515)
48-port 10/100/1000 PoE
WS-X4548-GB-RJ45V
Up to 240 ports of any access type with 10 GE uplinks for high-performance user access
Dual supervisor engines with embedded NetFlow for enhanced resiliency with up to 240 ports of any access type with 10 GE uplinks for high-performance user access
Catalyst 4507R-E
(WS-C4507R-E)
48-port 10/100/1000
WS-X4548-GB-RJ45
Supervisor Engine V-10GE (WS-X4516-10GE, L3)
48-port 10/100/1000 PoE
WS-X4548-GB-RJ45V
Up to 240 ports of any access type with 10 GE uplinks and 24-Gb-per-slot line cards for maximum performance
Catalyst 4506-E
(WS-C4506-E)
48-port 10/100/1000
WS-X4548-GB-RJ45
Supervisor Engine 6-E (WS-X45-Sup6-E)
48-port 10/100/1000 PoE
WS-X4648-RJ45V-E
Dual supervisor engines for enhanced resiliency with up to 240 ports of any access type with 10 GE uplinks and 24-Gb-per-slot line cards for maximum performance
Catalyst 4507R-E
(WS-C4507R-E)
48-port 10/100/1000
WS-X4548-GB-RJ45
Supervisor Engine 6-E (WS-X45-Sup6-E)
48-port 10/100/1000 PoE
WS-X4648-RJ45V-E
Table 2. Collapsed Access/Core
Deployment Specification
Chassis
Line Card Options
Line Card Part Numbers
Supervisor Engine
Up to 108 ports of any access type
Catalyst 4503-E
(WS-C4503-E)
48-port 10/100/1000
WS-X4548-GB-RJ45
Supervisor Engine II-Plus-TS
(WS-X4013+TS)
48-port 10/100/1000 PoE
WS-X4648-RJ45V-E
6-Port 10/100/1000 (SFP)
WS-X4506-GB-T
Table 3. Commercial Core
Deployment Specification
Chassis
Line Card Options
Line Card Part Numbers
Supervisor Engine
Up to 32 ports of line-rate gigabit fiber ports with full Layer 3 routing and optional NetFlow
Catalyst 4506-E
(WS-C4506-E)
6-port Gigabit Ethernet (GBIC)
WS-X4306-GB
Supervisor Engine IV (WS-X4515)
6-port 10/100/1000 (SFP)
WS-X4506-GB-T
Up to 48 ports of line-rate gigabit fiber ports with full Layer 3 routing and optional NetFlow
Catalyst 4507R-E
(WS-C4507R-E)
6-port Gigabit Ethernet (GBIC)
WS-X4306-GB
Supervisor Engine V (WS-X4516)
6-port 10/100/1000 (SFP)
WS-X4506-GB-T
Up to 32 ports of 10 Gb with full Layer 3 routing and 24-Gb-per-slot line cards for maximum performance
Catalyst 4506-E
(WS-C4506-E)
6-port 10 GE
(2.5:1 oversubscribed)
WS-X4606-X2-E
Supervisor Engine 6-E (WS-X45-Sup6-E)
Collapsed core with dual supervisor engines for enhanced resiliency and up to 32 ports of 10 Gb with full Layer 3 routing and 24-Gb-per-slot line cards for maximum performance
