Cisco Systems ME 4924-10GE manual Software Features

Chapter 1 Product Overview

Features

•Serial console management port using an RJ-45 interface

•A removable automatic variable speed fan tray for low noise operation at room temperature

•256-MB SDRAM (fixed)

•64-MB embedded Flash memory

•48 Gbps switching capacity at the ports, 102 million packets-per-second actual forwarding rate

•EtherChannel at 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps

•Hardware-based access lists

•Storm control in hardware

Software Features

This switch uses software developed for Catalyst 4500 series switches. The Cisco ME 4924-10GE software provides:

•Support for 55,000 MAC addresses for Layer 2 switching

•Support for 4,096 VLANs and 4,096 VLAN IDs

–IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging on all ports

–Cisco Inter Switch Link (ISL) tagging on all ports

•64,000 multicast forwarding entries and 16,000 unicast forwarding entries

•1022 ingress policers and 1022 egress policers

•32,000 ingress Security ACEs and 32,000 egress Security ACEs

•Support for port aggregation using Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP) for Gigabit EtherChannel

•Catalyst 4500 series management software features include the following:

–Command-line interface (CLI) and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) interfaces consistent with the Catalyst 4500 series switches

–Compatible development of new features with the Catalyst 4500 series switches

–Support for out-of-band management over serial lines through a terminal attached to the console interface

–Support for in-band management through any switch port through SNMP, Telnet client, and Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)

–Remote Monitoring (RMON)

–Support for standard Layer 2 features: 802.1D Spanning Tree, Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP), VTP version 2 with pruning extensions, and Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP) client

•Embedded management features include the following:

–Full SNMP instrumentation including entity-Management Information Base (MIB), all relevant standard MIBs, and all relevant Cisco MIBs

–Support for the first four RMON groups (Ethernet Statistics, Alarms, Events, and History) on a per-port basis without the need for an optional RMON processing module

–Performance management information

–Embedded CiscoView support

Cisco ME 4924-10GE Ethernet Switch Hardware Installation Guide

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