Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Quick Reference Guide

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Flagship modular switches offering the highest levels
of intelligence, operational efficiency, scalability,
investment protection, and performance for
enterprise customers, medium-sized businesses,
and service providers.
The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series continues to be the industry’s most innovative
switching platform, delivering the highest levels of availability, integrated
security, virtualization, enhanced manageability, IP communications,
wireless, and applications support. The feature-richness, flexibility, density,
and scalability of this product line sets the standard for converged data,
voice, and video networks, and enables maximum operational efficiency and
investment protection.
The flagship switch series offers integrated service modules that provide
high-speed advanced services such as integrated wireless, TDM/analog gateway,
firewalling, Web VPN, intrusion detection, application-oriented networking,
content switching, SSL termination, and network analysis services.
With a choice of Modular 3-, 4-, 6-, 9-, and 13-slot chassis, the Cisco Catalyst
6500 Series scales to support the highest port densities for PoE, 10/100 Fast
Ethernet, 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The Cisco
Catalyst 6500 Series platforms also offer the investment protection of backwards
compatibility, enabling new services and functions on older line cards by simply
upgrading a supervisor with up to 720Gpbs of performance.
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series
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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