Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Installation Guide

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Chapter 1 Product Overview
System Architecture
• Cisco Group Management Protocol support standards-based and Cisco
technology-enhanced efficient multimedia networking.
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
• CiscoWorks, which can manage critical network characteristics such as
availability, responsiveness, resilience, and security.
• Cisco NetFlow Services. The Cisco NetFlow Services Card for the
Supervisor Engine IV and V support statistics capture in hardware for
flow-based and VLAN-based statistics monitoring. This data can be
exported, collected, and analyzed for virus detection and mitigation,
network-traffic accounting, usage-based network billing, network planning,
network monitoring, and data-mining capabilities. Cisco NetFlow Services is
integral to the Supervisor Engine V-10GE.
Switching Traffic Flow
Figure 1-23 shows switching traffic flow through the system.

Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Specifications

General

Series	Catalyst 4500 Series
Category	Switch
Layer Support	Layer 2, Layer 3
Form Factor	Modular chassis
Stackable	No
Chassis Slots	3, 6, 7, 10
Power Supply Options	AC, DC
Redundancy	Power supply, Supervisor engine
Network Management	Cisco IOS Software CLI, SNMP, Cisco Prime Infrastructure
Features	Security, QoS
Port Density	Up to 384 ports per chassis
Security Features	802.1X, ACLs, DHCP Snooping, Dynamic ARP Inspection, IP Source Guard
Supervisor Engine	8-E