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The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series
The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine II-Plus is optimized for wiring closets for
medium-sized enterprises, education customers, or small enterprise or branch offices. In scenarios
that require enhanced routing (Interior Gateway Routing Protocol [IGRP], Enhanced IGRP
[EIGRP], Open Shortest Path First [OSPF], Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System [IS-IS],
and Border Gateway Protocol [BGP]), NetFlow services, or higher performance and scalability,
customers should consider other Layer 3-capable supervisor engines. For more information, visit:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/products_data_sheets_list.html.
Table 2 compares the features of the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series supervisor engines specifically
for Layer 2 access.
Table 2. Cisco Catalyst Supervisor Engines for Layer 2 Access Only
Feature Supervisor Engine II-Plus-
TS
Supervisor Engine II-Plus Supervisor Engine II-Plus-
10GE
Layer 2–4 Performance 48 mpps and 64 Gbps 48 mpps and 64 Gbps 81 mpps and 108 Gbps
Multilayer switching Basic Layer 2–4 services Basic Layer 2–4 services Basic Layer 2–4 services
EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, and
BGP
No No No
EIGRP Stub Yes Yes Yes
Redundant-capable No Yes Yes
CPU (MHz) 266 MHz 266 MHz 667 MHz
NetFlow support No No No
IP Forwarding Information
Base (FIB) entries
32,000 32,000 32,000
Chassis support Cisco Catalyst 4503, 4503E
chassis
Cisco Catalyst 4503, 4506,
4507R, 4503E, 4506E, 4507E
chassis
Cisco Catalyst 4503, 4506,
4507R, 4503E, 4506E, 4507E
chassis
QoS sharing Nonblocking Gigabit
Ethernet (GE) only
Nonblocking GE only All ports
Broadcast suppression Software* Software** Hardware
Multicast suppression No No Hardware
802.1Q-in-801.1Q (QinQ) No No In hardware
Active redundant
supervisor engine uplinks
No Two 1-GE uplinks Two 10-GE uplinks and four
1-GE uplinks
Synchronous Dynamic RAM
(SDRAM)
256 MB 256 MB 256 MB (512 MB optional
upgrade)
Onboard Flash memory 32 MB 32 MB 64 MB
Active VLANs 2000 2000 2000
Multicast entries 8000 8000 8000
Spanning Tree Protocol
instances
1500 1500 1500
Switched Virtual Interfaces
(SVIs)
1000 1000 1000
IGMP snooping Yes (16,000) Yes (16,000) Yes (16,000)
Security/QoS hardware
entries
32,000 32,000 32,000
Policers 512 egress; 512 ingress 512 egress; 512 ingress 512 egress; 512 ingress
* Hardware performance for nonblocking Gigabit Ethernet ports, and software performance for all other ports
** Hardware performance for nonblocking Gigabit Ethernet ports, and software performance for all other ports