– Supports 3-, 6-, and 7-slot Cisco Catalyst 4500E chassis 
– Supports a maximum of 244 ports of 10/100/1000 Base-T and 400 
ports of 1000Base-X (CSFP) in a 7-slot chassis 
– Supports up to 124 1GE nonblocking fiber ports or 62 10GE fiber 
ports in a 7-slot chassis 
– Enables next-generation Universal Power Over Ethernet (UPOE, 
WS-X4748-UPOE+E) in addition to backward compatibility with 
other PoE standards 
– Enables EEE (IEEE 802.3az) 
– 128,000 Flexible NetFlow entries in hardware 
– External USB and SD card support for flexible storage options 
– 10/100/1000 RJ-45 console and management port 
– 64,000/32,000 IPv4/IPv6 routing entries for campus access and 
aggregation deployments 
– IPv6 in hardware, providing wire-rate forwarding for IPv6 
networks and support for dual stack with innovative resource usage 
– Dynamic hardware forwarding-table allocations for ease of IPv4-
to-IPv6 migration 
– Scalable routing (IPv4, IPv6, and multicast) tables, Layer 2 tables, 
and access-control-list (ACL) and quality-of-service (QoS) entries to 
make use of 8 queues per port and comprehensive security policies 
per port 
 
• Infrastructure services: 
– Cisco IOS XE Software, the modular open application platform for 
virtualized borderless services 
– Maximum resiliency with redundant components, Nonstop 
Forwarding/Stateful Switchover (NSF/SSO), and In-Service 
Software Upgrade (ISSU) support 
– Network virtualization through Multi-Virtual Route Forwarding 
(VRF) technology for Layer 3 segmentation 
– Automation through Embedded Event Manager (EEM), Cisco 
Smart Call Home, AutoQoS, and Auto SmartPorts for fast 
provisioning, diagnosis, and reporting 
 
• Borderless network services: 
– Optimized application performance through deep visibility with 
Flexible NetFlow supporting rich Layer 2/3/4 information (MAC, 
VLAN, TCP Flags) and synthetic traffic monitoring with IP service-
level agreement (SLA) 
– Medianet capabilities to simplify video quality of service, 
monitoring, and security. In addition, multicast features such as 
Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) and Source-Specific