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Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Chassis
High Performance, Mobile and Secure User Experience
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 experience through Layer 2-4 switching investments. It enables 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 and superior investment protection.
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 PoEP, enabling the 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/4507R-E), and
10-slot (4510R+E/4510R-E). 4503-E, 4506-E, 4507R+E, and 4510R+E chassis are extremely flexible and support
either 6 Gbps, 24 Gbps, or 48Gbps per line-card slot. 4507R-E and 4510R-E chassis are limited to 6 Gbps and 24
Gbps per line-card slot. Integrated resiliency in the Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series includes 1+1 supervisor engine
redundancy (10-slot and 7-slot 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/switching performance
independent of provisioning of services such as QoS and security.

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