Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Overview 
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 Why modular? 
 Investment protection 
 Cisco? The Catalyst? The main components of the 4500 series switches can be upgraded and field replacement, including line cards, supervisor engines, power supply and fan. Catalyst 4000 Series line cards, launched in 1999 as the second layer devices can not only fully compatible with the current Catalyst 4500 Series can be upgraded to the third exchange. 

 Reduce network downtime 
 Redundant power supplies, supervisor engines, the fan and features a transparent line cards to lay a solid foundation for business-critical networks. 

 Network Security 
 Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series can reduce the switching performance, advanced detection capabilities to prevent networks from cyber attacks more than the second layer. 

 Scalability 
 Cisco Catalyst 4500 can be extended to 384 10/100/1000 Power over Ethernet (PoE) ports in a single enclosure. 

 IP Telephony 
 This chassis support the safety of large-scale PoE deployments. 

 Fusion 
 Converged voice, video and data network, enterprises can not only improve productivity and institutional flexibility, but also reduce costs, and thus able to obtain a high competitive advantage. 



 Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series switch product line 
 Highest port number of the chassis, engine-slot line card slot 
 Catalyst 4503 1 2 116 
 Catalyst 4506 1 5 242 
 Catalyst 4507R 2 5 244 
 Catalyst 4510R 2 8 388 


 Cisco Catalyst 4000 and 4500 series switch management engine 
 Supervisor Engine II-Plus - the second layer provides enhanced features, entry-level price applies to a small second-layer wiring and a simple Layer 3 QoS and security. 
 Supervisor Engine II-Plus-TS - on the basis of the Supervisor Engine II-Plus, an increase of 20 line-rate Gigabit Ethernet (GE) ports (12 Gigabit Ethernet PoE copper ports, 8 Gigabit Ethernet SFP optical ports). Support in the Catalyst 4503 chassis. 
 Supervisor Engine IV - middle-wiring and third tier network to provide enhanced security features and Layer 3 routing (EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP), 
 Supervisor Engine V - High performance and advanced features, support up to 242 ports in a Catalyst 4510R chassis. 
 Supervisor Engine V-10GE - on the basis of the Supervisor Engine V, add two 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks link and NetFlow. Catalyst 4510R chassis supports up to 384 ports. 
 Line Card 
 Fast Ethernet copper - Fast Ethernet line cards include 24-port and 48-port connection type, with optional the PoE. 
 Fast Ethernet Fiber - Supports multimode fiber and singlemode fiber, and FX, the LX and BX transceivers. 
 Gigabit Ethernet copper wire - 24-port or 48 port, with or without the PoE. 
 Gigabit Ethernet fiber optic - Gigabit Ethernet fiber card provides high-performance Gigabit Ethernet uplinks and server farm connectivity. Provides a variety of number of ports and optical interface type (Gigabit Interface Converter [GBIC] and SFP optical interface). 
 Centralized architecture 
 Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM) is a feature-rich wire-speed performance, intelligent Ethernet switch vendors. Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series switches use separate TCAM resources, independent way of dealing with wire-speed intelligent services for the third layer routing. Its structure so that each functions and features have a large number of dedicated TCAM space in order to ensure excellent performance. 



 The advantages of Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series 
 Safe and strong - to provide high reliability through redundant components 
 Service upgrade - hot-plug and remove components 
 The price of Gigabit Ethernet - stackable equipment is more cost-effective (greater than 48 ports) 
 Adaptability - without a massive upgrade will be able to provide Gigabit Ethernet uplinks 
 High security - Cisco Catalyst integrated security features to provide the most comprehensive Cisco LAN access protection 
 Strategic Cisco platform - already installed more than 400,000 chassis 
 Centralized architecture - simplicity, scalability, high-performance 
 Support Voice over IP 
 Investment protection 
 Is currently the most widely deployed modular switch