Cisco Systems ICS-7750 manual Catalyst 4000 Switches

Chapter 7 Features of LAN-Based Switching Technologies

Catalyst 4000 Switches

Catalyst 4000 Switches

Catalyst 4000 series switches provide advanced enterprise switching solutions for wiring closets and data centers that include the following key features:

•Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching and services.

•18 million packets-per-second (Mpps) throughput, with 24-Gbps switching bandwidth.

•10/100 Fast Ethernet ports, Gigabit Ethernet ports.

•Power supply bays support redundant, load-sharing, fault-tolerant AC power supplies.

•Meet requirements for device redundancy, link resiliency, and network availability.

•Dedicated bandwidth to individual users, servers, printers, and high-speed connections to company servers.

•Integrated Layer 3 services engine:

–Scalable 6-Mpps Layer 3 services engine of IP, IPX, and IP multicast protocols.

–Up to 224 ports 10/100 Fast Ethernet plus dual Gigabit Ethernet uplinks (GBIC slot), including previously deployed Catalyst 4000 line cards.

–High-performance CPU with Cisco IOS, system software.

–Quality of service (QoS), multiple queues with weighted round robin (WRR) scheduling.

–Comprehensive management tools based on standard CiscoWorks2000 applications.

–Hardware-based access control list (ACL) support on dual Gigabit Ethernet uplinks.

–Inter-switch link (ISL) and 802.1Q trunking on dual Gigabit Ethernet uplinks.

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