Figure 6.1: The Catalyst Supervisor Engine I and II.
Media Access Control Addressing and VLANs—Support for 16,000 active MAC addresses for up to
1,024 VLANs allocated dynamically between active ports.
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Management—Support for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) for statistical
management. The SE also supports access and management through the console and Telnet interface.
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The SE II includes a few upgraded features, such as:
Support for redundant supervisor engines• Support for redundant clock modules• Support for core−switching logic•
The Supervisor Engine II G supports additional features, such as:
An optional NetFlow Feature Card II (NFFC II) chipset built in• Route Switch Feature Card (RSFC)• Modular uplink ports•
Supervisor Engine III
The Supervisor Engine III is available in three models:
Supervisor Engine III with Enhanced Address Recognition Logic (EARL) ASIC• Supervisor Engine III with the NFFC• Supervisor Engine III with the NFFC II•
The Supervisor Engine III shown in Figure 6.2 has a few more features than SEs I and II:
Figure 6.2: The Supervisor Engine III.
150MHz RISC 4700 processor• Three switching buses that can simultaneously provide 1.2GB of throughput, resulting in a 3.6Gbps
throughput engine
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Two Flash PC card slots that can be used for memory upgrades or to serve as additional I/O devices•
The Supervisor Engine III G shown in Figure 6.3 provides the following additional features:
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