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Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Line Cards

High Performance, Mobile, and Secure User Experience

Product Benefits

The Cisco

Catalyst

4500 Series Switches enable borderless networks, providing high performance, mobile, and

secure user experiences through Layer 2-4 switching. Enabling security, mobility, application performance, video,

and energy savings over your network infrastructure, the Cisco Catalyst 4500 supports resiliency, virtualization, and

automation, further improving the ease of network use. Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches provide borderless

performance, scalability, and services with reduced total cost of ownership and superior investment protection.

The Cisco Catalyst 4500 delivers predictable and scalable high performance, with advanced dynamic quality of

service (QoS) capabilities and configuration flexibility for deploying borderless networks. Integrated resiliency

features in both hardware and software maximize network availability, helping to ensure workforce productivity,

profitability, and customer success. Its centralized, innovative, and flexible system design helps ensure smooth

migration to wire-speed IPv6 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE). The forward and backward compatibility between

generations of the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series extends deployment life, providing exceptional investment protection,

while reducing the total cost of ownership.

The Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series is a high-performance next-generation extension to the Cisco Catalyst 4500

Series. The new E-Series is composed of the Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Supervisor engines, E-Series line cards,

and E-Series chassis, which are designed for a high-performance, mobile, and secure user experience with superior

backward and forward compatibility, delivering exceptional investment protection for organizations of all sizes.

Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series and Classic Line Cards

The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series offers two classes of line cards: classic and E-Series. Classic line cards provide 6

gigabits of switching capacity per slot. E-Series line cards provide increased switching capacity per slot. This

increase in per-slot switching capacity with the E-Series line cards requires the Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series chassis

and the Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Supervisor. There are two types of E-Series line cards based on the per-slot

switching capacity. E-Series line cards numbered 47xx operate at 48 gigabits per slot, while E-Series line cards

numbered 46xx operate at 24 gigabits per slot. Classic line cards may be deployed in both classic and E-Series

chassis with either classic Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series supervisor engines or with the Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series

Supervisor Engine. With the E-Series supervisor engine, the per-slot switching capacity for classic line cards

remains at 6 gigabits per slot. However, because of the centralized switching architecture of the Cisco Catalyst 4500,

the classic line cards will adopt all of the new E-Series supervisor engine features such as eight queues per port,

dynamic QoS, and hardware-based IPv6 routing. For more feature details, refer to the E-Series supervisor engine

data sheet. Classic line cards and E-Series line cards may be mixed and matched within a Cisco Catalyst 4500E

Series chassis with no performance degradation: classic line cards will operate at 6 gigabits per slot, and E-Series

line cards operate at either 48 gigabits per slot or 24 gigabits per slot based on whether they belong to the 47xx or

46xx family of line cards. Table 1 summarizes the chassis and supervisor support for both classic and E-Series line

cards.