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Catalyst 4500 E-Series Switches Installation Guide
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Chapter 1 Product Overview
Supervisor Engines
• Supervisor Engine IV (WS-X4515) (Figure 1-8)
• Supervisor Engine V (WS-X4516) (Figure 1-9)
• Supervisor Engine V-10GE (WS-X4516-10GE) (Figure 1-10)
• Supervisor Engine 6-E (WS-X45-Sup6-E) (Figure 1-11)
Note If you move a supervisor engine from a Catalyst 4500 series chassis to a Catalyst 4500-E chassis it m ust
use Cisco IOS Release 12.2(37)SG or later. Refer to the release note for software upgrade p rocedures if
needed:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/prod_release_note09186a0080758ff3.html
#wp305142
The Catalyst 4500 series and Catalyst 4500 E-series supervisor engines have the following features:
Tab l e 1-5 Supervisor Engine Features
Feature Description
Data path and control Available on all network interfaces
Management functions Interface monitoring
Environmental status
SNMP and console/Telnet interface
MAC addresses supported 32,768 per system (Cisco IOS only)
VLANS Up to 4,096 VLANs with IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging on all ports an d
VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)
Port aggregation PAgP 1 for 100-Mbps and 1000-Mbps EtherChannel
SNMP Full implementation, including entity-MIB, all relevant standard MIBs,
and all relevant Cisco MIBs
RMON The first four groups (Ethernet statistics, Alarms, Events, and History)
are on a per-port basis without an optional RMON processing module
SPAN2Supported, which allows you to redirect traffic from any port or VLAN
to a SPAN destination port
Performance management Information provided
Hot-swappable Supported. On non-redundant systems, packets are not forwarded while
the supervisor engine is removed, and a system reboot occurs when a
supervisor engine is reinserted.
Gigabit Ethernet (using a
GBIC or SFP)
Includes two (four on WS-X4516-10GE and WS-X4013+10GE) Gigabit
Ethernet (1000BASE-X) interfaces for backbone interconnection of
high-performance switches and routers
10-Gigabit Ethernet
(WS-X4516-10GE,
WS-X4013+10GE and
WS-X45-Sup6-E)
Includes two 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces for backbone
interconnection of high-performance switches and routers
Forwarding Layer 2, 3, and 4 forwarding (Cisco IOS only)