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PREDICTABLE PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITY
The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine V delivers a 96-Gbps switching fabric with a 72-Mpps forwarding rate in hardware for Layer 2–4 traffic.
Switching performance is independent of the number of route entries or Layer 3 and 4 services enabled. Hardware-based Cisco Express Forwarding
routing architecture allows for increased scalability and performance.
The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series is optimized for multimedia applications with its advanced multicast support. The Supervisor Engine V supports
Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM), Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), and Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) to provide end users with
additional scalability to support multimedia applications. Also supported is Internet IGMP snooping in hardware, enhancing performance and
reducing network traffic by allowing a switch to dynamically add and remove hosts from a multicast group.
INTELLIGENT NETWORK SERVICES WITH QOS AND SOPHISTICATED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine V offers superior per-port QoS features to help ensure that network traffic is classified, prioritized,
and scheduled optimally to efficiently handle bandwidth-hungry multimedia, time-sensitive (voice), and mission-critical applications. The Supervisor
Engine V can classify, police, and mark incoming packets, allowing the administrator to differentiate between traffic flows and enforce policies.
Sharing, shaping, and strict priority configurations determine scheduling of egress traffic. The Supervisor Engine V also supports DBL, a congestion-
avoidance feature. For details about the QoS features (including DBL) on the Supervisor Engine V, refer to the QoS on Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series
Cisco IOS Software-Based Supervisor Engines overview at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/hw/switches/ps4324/prod_white_papers_list.html
COMPREHENSIVE MANAGEMENT
The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine V features a single console port and a single IP address to manage all system features. Remote in-
band management is available with SNMP, Telnet client, BOOTP, and Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP). Support for local or remote out-of-
band management is delivered through a terminal or modem attached to the console interface. The Cisco Smartports Macro is a Cisco Catalyst
solution that is also supported, simplifying the configuration of the critical features for the Ethernet networks.
The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine V delivers a comprehensive set of management tools to provide the required visibility and control in the
network. Managed with CiscoWorks solutions, Cisco Catalyst switches can be configured and managed to deliver end-to-end device, VLAN, traffic,
and policy management. The CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS) bundle offers tools such as CiscoWorks Resource Manager Essentials
and CiscoView. These Web-based management tools offer several services, including automated inventory collection, software deployment, easy
tracking of network changes, views into device availability, and quick isolation of error conditions.
ADVANCED SECURITY
The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series offers a rich set of industry-leading, integrated security features to proactively lock down your critical network
infrastructure. It reduces security risks with 802.1x-based user authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA). The security policy enforcement
is uncompromised with the wire-rate, dedicated access control lists (ACLs) to fend off ever-increasing virus and security attacks. The Cisco Catalyst
4500 Series offers powerful, easy-to-use tools to effectively prevent the untraceable man-in-the-middle attacks, IP spoofing, and flooding attacks,
without any change to the end-user or host configurations. Secure remote access and network management is accomplished with the Secure Shell
(SSH versions 1 and 2) Protocol and SNMPv3.