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Data Sheet
Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switch
Overview
The Cisco
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Catalyst
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4500 Series Switches enable Borderless Networks, providing high performance, mobile, and
secure user experiences through Layer 2-4 switching investments. They enable security, mobility, application
performance, video, and energy savings over an infrastructure that supports resiliency, virtualization, and
automation. Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches provide borderless performance, scalability, and services with
reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and superior investment protection.
The Cisco Catalyst 4500 (Figure 1) has a centralized forwarding architecture that enables collaboration,
virtualization, and operational manageability through simplified operations. With forward and backward
compatibility spanning multiple generations, the new Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series provides exceptional investment
protection and deployment flexibility to meet the evolving needs of organizations of all sizes. The Cisco Catalyst
4500E Series platform has 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) uplinks and supports Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) and
Universal PoE (UPOE), enabling customers to future proof their network.
E-Series chassis come in four different form factors: 3-slot (4503-E), 6-slot (4506-E), 7-slot (4507R+E), and 10-
slot (4510R+E). 4503-E, 4506-E, 4507R+E, and 4510R+E chassis are extremely flexible and support either 24 or
48 Gbps per line-card slot. Integrated resiliency in the Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series includes 1 + 1 supervisor
engine redundancy (10-slot and 7-slot chassis only), redundant fans, software-based fault tolerance, and 1 + 1
power supply redundancy. Integrated resiliency in both hardware and software minimizes network downtime,
helping to ensure workforce productivity, profitability, and customer success.
Figure 1. Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series
The Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series extends control to the network edge with intelligent network services, including
sophisticated quality of service (QoS), predictable performance, advanced security, comprehensive management,
and integrated resiliency. Scalability of these intelligent network services is made possible with dedicated,
specialized resources known as ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM). Ample TCAM resources (up to
384,000 entries) enable “high feature capacity”, which provides wire-speed routing and switching performance
independent of provisioning of services such as QoS and security.
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