Collaboration, Resiliency, and Operational Efficiency

The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switch is a premier midrange modular platform for deploying collaboration via medianet, mobility, and Unified Communications applications. It delivers operational efficiency through automation, energy sustainability, and lower total cost of ownership. It is designed for high resiliency and offers maximum investment protection with backward and forward compatibility across generations.

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Cisco 4500 Series Switches help businesses of all sizes deploy secure, resilient, and scalable unified data, voice, and video networks. (5:57 min)

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The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switch extends a comprehensive set of intelligent network services to the network edge. Key features include:

• Collaboration:
  • Power over Ethernet (PoE): Comprehensive PoE support, including IEEE 802.3af, 802.11n for wireless access points and PoEP up to 30watts per port
  • Intelligent services: Hardware-based quality of service, video delivery, multicast, security, Location Service, and IPv6
  • Scalability: Up to 384 PoE ports or 34 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports to support multiple concurrent services
• Operational Efficiency:
  • Automated operations and troubleshooting: Embedded Event Manager, Cisco In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU), Cisco Smart Call Home, Location Services, IP SLA, Smartports, AutoQoS
  • Energy sustainability: Switch-level energy efficiency and full support for Cisco EnergyWise architecture
  • Hot-swappable components: Supervisor, line cards, power supplies, and fan tray are hot-swappable
• Resiliency: Hardware and software based resiliency features minimize planned and unplanned network downtime
  • Hardware resiliency: All critical components, such as supervisors, power supplies, and fans, are redundant
  • Software resiliency: Subsecond supervisor switchover (SSO) and Cisco In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) occur without dropping IP calls
  • Extensive security features: Network disruptions from security threats are minimized
• Investment protection:
  
  • Backward and forward compatibility: Mix Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series line cards and classic line cards in the same chassis without performance degradation.
  • Investment enhancement: Upgrade currently deployed classic line card features to the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6-E or Supervisor Engine 6L-E.
  • IPv4 and IPv6: Optimized for simultaneous IPv4/IPv6 deployment or migration.

For centralized management, Cisco Network Assistant simplifies configuration and administration with configuration wizards that greatly simplify implementation of intelligent network services.