Cisco Systems 4500 manual Switching Traffic Flow

Chapter 1 Product Overview

System Architecture

•Cisco Group Management Protocol support standards-based and Cisco technology-enhanced efficient multimedia networking.

•Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

•CiscoWorks, which can manage critical network characteristics such as availability, responsiveness, resilience, and security.

•Cisco NetFlow Services. The Cisco NetFlow Services Card for the Supervisor Engine IV and V support statistics capture in hardware for flow-based and VLAN-based statistics monitoring. This data can be exported, collected, and analyzed for virus detection and mitigation, network-traffic accounting, usage-based network billing, network planning, network monitoring, and data-mining capabilities. Cisco NetFlow Services is integral to the Supervisor Engine V-10GE.

Switching Traffic Flow

Figure 1-23shows switching traffic flow through the system.

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