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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 must
use Cisco IOS Release 12.2(37)SG or later. Refer to the release note for software upgrade procedures 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:
Ta b 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 and
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
SPAN
2
Supported, 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)