Brochure
Software at a Glance
LAYER 3 PACKAGE
Model
name
Management
1
Usability
Enhancements
IPv4/IPv6
ACL and
QoS,
DiServ
IPv4/IPv6 Multicast Filtering
Spanning
Tree
VLANs
Trunking
Port Channel
IPv4/IPv6
Authentication
Security
IPv4/IPv6
Static
Routing
IPv4/IPv6
Dynamic Routing
Datacenter
Features
Model
number
M4500
series
Out-of-band;
CLI; Telnet;
SSH
SNMP, MIBs
RSPAN
Radius Users,
TACACS+
Link Dependency
(Enable or Disable one or more ports based
on the link state of one or more dierent
ports)
CLI scheduler
(Schedule fully-qualified EXEC mode CLI
commands to run once, at specified inter
-
vals, at specified calendar dates and times,
or upon system startup)
Ingress/
egress
1 Kbps
shaping
rate limit
IGMP Plus for automatic
IGMP
IGMPv3 MLDv2 Snooping,
Proxy
SSM
IGMPv1,v2 Querier
(compatible v3)
Control Packet Flooding
STP, MTP,
RSTP
IEEE
802.1Q-
2005
BPDU Guard
Static,
Dynamic
Double
VLAN
mod
(QinQ)
Static or Dynamic LACP
(LACP automatically
reverts to and from Static
LAG)
Seven (7) L2/L3/L4
hashing algorithms
Multi Chassis Link Aggre
-
gation Group (MLAG)
Successive Tiering
(DOT1X; MAB)
DHCP Snooping
Dynamic ARP
Inspection
IP Source Guard
Port,
Subnet,
VLAN
routing
DHCP
Relay
Multicast
static
routes
IP
Multinetting/CIDR
PBR
VRRPv2, OSPFv3
PIM-SM/SSM
BGP4,
VRF-Lite
PFC
DCBX
CoS
Queuing
and ETS
VXLAN
Gateway
All
models
1
CLI only
Performance at a Glance
TABLE SIZE
Model name
MAC ARP/
NDP
Routing /
Switching
Capacity
Through
-
put
Application
Route
Scaling
Packet
Buer
Latency
IP Multicast
Forwarding
Entries
CPU
Multicast
IGMP Group
membership
VLANs
Link
Aggregation
Port Channel
sFlow
Model
number
M4500-32C 32K MAC
8K ARP
2.5K NDP
6.4 Tbps
Line-rate
2 Bpps Static routes: 128
IPv4 routes: 32K
IPv6 routes: 24K
IP IGMP/MLD: 2,048
PIM-SM: 1536
PIM-SMv6: 512
256 Mb 64-byte frames
<0.13µs 100G QSFP28
<0.417µs 50G QSFP28
<0.15µs 40G QSFP+
<0.125µs 4x25G breakout
<0.766µs 4x10G breakout
2,048 IPv4
2.048 IPv6
x86 Intel
Atom®
Processor
C3558
8GB
DDR3/
ECC RAM
128GB
SSD
storage
4K IPv4 / IPv6
4K
VLANs
64 groups (LAG)
802.3ad
with LACP
32
members/LAG
63 groups
(MLAG)
Multichassis LAG
32
members/MLAG
sFlow v5
8 sessions
416
samplers
416
pollers
8
receivers
CSM4532
M4500-48XF8C 32K MAC
8K ARP
2.5K NDP
4 Tbps
Line-rate
2 Bpps Static routes: 128
IPv4 routes: 32K
IPv6 routes: 24K
IP IGMP/MLD: 2,048
PIM-SM: 1536
PIM-SMv6: 512
256 Mb 64-byte frames
<0.117µs 25G SFP28
<0.119µs 10G SFP+
<0.129µs 100G QSFP28
<0.129µs 50G QSFP28
<0.144µs 40G QSFP+
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