Cisco is announcing the Cisco® Catalyst® 4500E Supervisor Engine 7L-E (Figure 1), an enterprise-class borderless campus access and price/performance aggregation supervisor engine designed to provide 520Gbps per system with E-Series chassis. Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 7L-E builds on the success of its predecessor Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 6L-E and provides unprecedented performance with borderless services such as Flexible NetFlow and hosted third-party applications.
• Up to 7 to 10 years of investment protection through backward and forward compatibility
• 520Gbps system performance with 48Gbps per slot to every line-card slot
• Future-proof investment with dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks (SFP+ optics) or four Gigabit Ethernet uplinks (SFP optics)
• Cisco Universal Power over Ethernet (UPOE) for unprecedented convergence to IP network infrastructure
• Application visibility through Flexible NetFlow (FNF)
• Cisco IOS® XE Software, which provides the ability to host third-party applications
• Energy efficiency with support of 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)-capable line cards
• Industry-leading resiliency through In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU)
• First and only modular switch with 8 bidirectional line-rate SPAN/RSPAN sessions
Figure 1. Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 7L-E Feature Highlights
• Performance/scalability
– 520Gbps switching capacity with 225 mpps of throughput
– 2 nonblocking 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks (SFP+) or 4 nonblocking 1 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks (SFP)
– Supports 3-, 6-, and 7-slot Cisco Catalyst 4500E chassis
– Supports a maximum of 244 ports of 10/100/1000 in a 7-slot chassis
– Supports up to 124 1GE nonblocking Fiber Ports or 62 10GE Fiber Ports in a 7-slot chassis
– Enables next-generation Universal Power Over Ethernet (UPOE, WS-X4748-UPOE+E) in addition to backward compatible with other POE standards
– Enables Energy Efficient Ethernet (IEEE 802.3az)
– 128K Flexible NetFlow entries in hardware
– External USB and SD card support for flexible storage options
– 10/100/1000 RJ-45 console and management port
– 64K/32K IPv4/IPv6 Routing Entries for campus access and aggregation deployments
– IPv6 support in hardware, providing wire-rate forwarding for IPv6 networks and support for Dual Stack with innovative resource utilization
– Dynamic hardware forwarding-table allocations for ease of IPv4-to-IPv6 migration
– Scalable routing (IPv4, IPv6, and multicast) tables, Layer 2 tables, and ACL and QoS entries to make use of 8 queues per port and comprehensive security policies per port
• Infrastructure services
– Cisco IOS XE Software, the modular open application platform for virtualized borderless services
– Maximum resiliency with redundant components, Nonstop Forwarding/Stateful Switchover (NSF/SSO), and In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) support
– Network virtualization through Multi-VRF technology for Layer 3 segmentation
– Automation through Embedded Event Manager (EEM), Cisco Smart Call Home, AutoQoS, and Auto SmartPorts for fast provisioning, diagnosis, and reporting
• Borderless Network services
– Optimized application performance through deep visibility with Flexible NetFlow supporting rich Layer 2/3/4 information (MAC, VLAN, TCP Flags) and synthetic traffic monitoring with IP SLA
– Medianet capabilities to simplify video quality of service, monitoring, and security. In addition multicast features such as Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) provide enterprise customers the additional scalability to support multimedia applications
– Energy-efficient design with Cisco EnergyWise™ technology to manage network, PoEP, and PC
• Investment protection and reduced TCO
– Full backward compatibility with 6 G, 24 G, and 48 Gbps slot line cards with no performance degradation
Ordering Information
Table 1. Ordering Information for Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 7L-E
For additional information, visit:
• Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series homepage: http://www.cisco.com/go/4500
• Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine 7L-E data sheet: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps4324/data_sheet_c78-686325.html
• Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Line Card data sheet: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/modules/ps2710/ps5494/product_data_sheet0900aecd802109ea_ps4324_Products_Data_Sheet.html
• Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Chassis data sheet: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps4324/product_data_sheet0900aecd801792b1.html
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