Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E: High-Performance Access Supervisor [Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches]

Overview

The Cisco^® Catalyst^® 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E (Figure 1) is a next-generation, high-performance Basic Layer 3 supervisor addition to the Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series product line. It is optimized for enterprise user access.

Figure 1. Basic Layer 3 Supervisor Engine 6L-E with TwinGig Support (Two 10 Gigabit Ethernet or Four Gigabit Ethernet)

Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E Feature Highlights

• Centralized 280-Gbps switching capacity with 225 millions of packets per second (mpps) of throughput

• IPv6 support in hardware, providing linerate forwarding for IPv6 packets

• Flexibility to operate at 6 or 24 Gbps per line-card slot

• Ability to mix and match 6-Gbps classic and 24-Gbps E-Series line cards with no performance degradation

• Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks (X2 optics)

• Cisco TwinGig Converter Modules that enable flexibility for up to four Gigabit Ethernet (Small Form-Factor Pluggable [SFP]) uplinks in the X2 optic slots

• Low latency

• Hardware forwarding entries: 57,000

• Dynamic hardware forwarding table allocations for ease of IPv4-to-IPv6 migration

• Quality of service (QoS) services hardware entries: 16,000 per direction

• Advanced QoS support with up to eight queues per port, dynamic queue sizing, and hierarchical policing to provide flexibility and control

• Security services entries: 16,000 per direction

The Supervisor Engine 6L-E delivers 24 Gbps per slot of switching capacity when deployed with the E-Series line cards in a Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series chassis. You can mix and match classic line cards and E-Series line cards within a Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series chassis with no performance degradation. When you deploy the Cisco Catalyst Supervisor Engine 6L-E with classic line cards, all of the new features except the 24-Gbps per-slot switching capacity are inherited. The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E is also compatible with classic Cisco Catalyst 4500 line cards, chassis (3 slot, 6 slot, and 7 slot), and power supplies, providing full investment protection.

The Cisco Catalyst Supervisor Engine 6L-E also provides flexibility and an easy migration path to 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks with dual-purpose X2 slots that can accommodate wire-speed 10 Gigabit Ethernet optics or Cisco TwinGig Converter Modules, enabling Gigabit Ethernet SFP optics.

The Cisco TwinGig Converter Module, which ships standard with the Supervisor Engine 6L-E (unless you order 10 Gigabit Ethernet optics on the configuration tool), converts a single 10 Gigabit Ethernet X2 interface into two Gigabit Ethernet port slots that can be populated with appropriate SFP optics, providing a total of 4 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks if used in both X2 interface slots. With the flexibility offered by the Cisco TwinGig Converter Module, you can initially use the gigabit uplinks, and then, as your business demands change, you can simply remove the Cisco TwinGig Converter Module and insert 10 Gigabit Ethernet X2 optics to provide full line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks. The ability to support both Gigabit Ethernet uplinks and 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks on a single supervisor engine further demonstrates the flexibility and the investment protection of the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series.

Power consumption on the Supervisor Engine 6L-E is optimized, and when combined with Cisco Catalyst 4500 line cards, the system supports Power over Ethernet (PoE), Cisco enhanced PoE, and ready for PoEP with support for 30W/port.

The capabilities and investment protection provided by the Supervisor Engine 6L-E facilitate not only adequate scalability for today's network access requirements but also future-proofing by providing significant software functionalities for future deployments.

Predictable Performance and Scalability

The Supervisor Engine 6L-E provides a fourfold increase in per-slot switching capacity from previous-generation Basic Layer 3 Cisco Catalyst 4500 supervisor engines: from 6 to 24 Gbps per slot. Table 1 highlights the performance and scalability enhancements of the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E.

Table 1. Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E Performance and Scalability Features

Feature and Description	Supervisor Engine 6L-E
Centralized Switching Capacity	280 Gbps
Throughput	225 mpps for IPv4 110 mpps for IPv6
IPv4 Routing Entries	57,000
IPv6 Routing Entries	30,000
SDRAM	512MB DRAM upgradable to 1GB
Security and Quality-of-Service (QoS) Hardware Entries	32,000 (16,000 per direction)
Active VLANs	4096
Switched Virtual Interfaces	2048
Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN)	Maximum of 8 sessions: ingress and egress

Chassis and Line-Card Support

Already-installed Cisco Catalyst 4500 chassis with classic line cards can take advantage of the new features and functions of the Supervisor Engine 6L-E on all ports with a simple supervisor-engine upgrade. However, to take advantage of the increased switching capacity of 24 Gbps per slot, the Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series chassis and E-Series line cards are required. You can mix and match Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series line cards and classic line cards in an E-Series chassis with no performance degradation to either line-card type. Table 2 shows the supervisor-engine and line-card slot-assignment options in the Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series chassis.

Table 2. Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Chassis Slot-Assignment Options

Chassis	Single Supervisor Engine 6L-E Slot Assignments	Redundant Supervisor Engine 6L-E Slot Assignments	E-Series Line-Card Slot Options	Classic Line-Card Slot Options
Cisco Catalyst 4503-E	Slot 1	-	Slots 2 and 3	Slots 2 and 3
Cisco Catalyst 4506-E	Slot 1	-	Slots 2 through 6	Slots 2 through 6
Cisco Catalyst 4507R-E	Slot 3 or 4	Slots 3 or 4	Slots 1, 2, and 5 to 7	Slots 1, 2, and 5 to 7

Note: You can mix E-Series and classic line cards within a chassis.

Table 3 summarizes the performance capacities of the Supervisor Engine 6L-E on a per-chassis basis.

Table 3. Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E Performance Capacity per Chassis

	Cisco Catalyst 4503-E Chassis	Cisco Catalyst 4506-E Chassis	Cisco Catalyst 4507R-E Chassis
Supervisor Engine 6L-E (WS-X45-Sup6L-E)	116 Gbps	280 Gbps	280 Gbps

High Availability and Uplinks

The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series was designed for nonstop communications with uninterrupted hardware switching. In addition to redundant power supplies, fans, and clock modules, the Cisco Catalyst 4507R-E chassis model supports 1 + 1 supervisor-engine redundancy, using the Supervisor Engine 6L-E. The primary supervisor engine is active and is responsible for normal system operation. The other supervisor engine serves as a secondary standby, monitoring the operation of the primary supervisor engine.

Alerts are generated to the network-monitoring software if either of the redundant supervisors fails. Hot-swapping of supervisor engines is supported without disrupting system operation. You can configure software to force switchover of supervisor engines, or you can use the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to perform switchover. The resiliency features of the Cisco Catalyst 4500 prevent network outages that could result in lost business and revenue.

Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover (NSF/SSO) offers continuous packet forwarding during supervisor-engine switchover. Information is fully synchronized between supervisor engines to allow the standby supervisor engine to immediately take over in subsecond time if the primary fails. In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) allows you to upgrade or downgrade complete Cisco IOS^® Software images with minimal to no disruption to the network when using a redundant Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series system with dual supervisor engines. Facilitating rapid, nondisruptive software upgrade for new line cards, new power supplies, new features, or bug fixes, ISSU offers continuous packet forwarding during the supervisor-engine switchover running different Cisco IOS Software releases.

NSF/SSO and ISSU dramatically improve the network reliability and availability in a Basic Layer 3 or Enhanced Layer 3 environment. NSF/SSO and ISSU are essential for business-critical applications such as voice over IP (VoIP). These features help ensure that VoIP calls are not dropped.

Table 4 shows the high-availability and uplink options for the Supervisor Engine 6L-E.

Table 4. Supervisor Engine 6L-E High-Availability and Uplink Options

Feature and Description	Supervisor Engine 6L-E
Redundant Capable	Yes with Cisco Catalyst 4507R or 4507R-E model
Active Supervisor Engine Uplinks in Redundant Mode	Two 10 Gigabit Ethernet (Wire-Speed) Or Four Gigabit Ethernet (Cisco TwinGig Converter Module) Or One 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Two Gigabit Ethernet
Active Supervisor Engine Uplinks (Nonredundant Mode)	Two 10 Gigabit Ethernet Or One 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 2 Gigabit Ethernet (Cisco TwinGig Converter Module) Or Four Gigabit Ethernet (Cisco TwinGig Converter Module)
Uplink Optic Types	SFP (Gigabit Ethernet) with Cisco TwinGig Converter Module or X2 optics (10 Gigabit Ethernet ports)

IPv6 Support

IPv6 is important for the future of IP networking and is critical for the expansion of IP address space in the future. IPv6 capability is required by many companies and is being mandated by governments worldwide. This protocol has been supported on the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine II-Plus to V-10GE engines since Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(20)EW with software forwarding. The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E supports IPv6 Unicast and Multicast in hardware for full line-rate forwarding performance of up to 110 mpps. The Supervisor Engine 6L-E also dynamically allocates hardware table space between IPv4 and IPv6 routes to maximize table-space usage for optimal IPv4-to-IPv6 migration.

Table 5 highlights the IPv6 capabilities of the Supervisor Engine 6L-E.

Table 5. Summary of Supervisor Engine 6L-E IPv6 Capabilities

Feature Description	Supervisor Engine 6L-E
IPv6 Support	Unicast and Multicast forwarding done in hardware
IPv6 Performance	110 mpps
IPv6 Routing Entries	30,000
Dynamic Hardware Route Table Allocations	Yes

For more information about IPv6 feature support and configuration, please refer to the Cisco Catalyst 4500 with Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(40)SG release notes at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/prod_release_notes_list.html.

Intelligent Network Services with QoS and Sophisticated Traffic Management

The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E provides enhanced QoS features to help ensure that network traffic is classified, prioritized, and scheduled optimally to efficiently deploy a unified communications network that comprises bandwidth-hungry multimedia, time-sensitive (voice), and mission-critical applications. This type of network allows the administrator to differentiate between traffic flows and enforce policies. QoS capabilities include sharing, shaping, and strict-priority configurations for optimal scheduling of egress traffic as well as Dynamic Buffer Limiting (DBL), a flow-based congestion-avoidance feature. The Supervisor Engine 6L-E extends the capabilities of previous-generation supervisor engines by providing flexible queuing with up to 8 transmit queues per port with dynamic queue sizing for greater flexibility in classifying and prioritizing traffic.

Classification has also been enhanced by providing configurable classification mapping tables applied on a per-port basis, providing greater flexibility in marking traffic. Policing has also been enhanced to include 2-Rate, 3-Color Policing for more granular control and enforcement of traffic policies. Table 6 summarizes the enhanced QoS features of the Supervisor Engine 6L-E.

Table 6. Summary of Supervisor Engine 6L-E Enhanced QoS Features

Feature Description	Supervisor Engine 6L-E
QoS Hardware Entries	16,000 per direction (32,000 total)
Number of Tx Queues	Fixed queues up to 8
Maximum Tx Queue Size	Dynamic 16 to 8184 packets per queue, depending on the number and type of line card and the number of queues configured on the port (refer to documentation for more details)
Dynamic Queue Sizes	Yes
Configurable classification Mapping Tables	Yes
Match IP or MAC header	Yes
Modular QoS compliant	Yes
DBL: Congestion-Avoidance Feature	Yes
QoS Sharing	Supported on all ports
Shaping	Yes, per Tx queue
Broadcast suppression	Supported in hardware for all ports
Multicast Suppression	Supported in hardware for all ports

Comprehensive Centralized Management

The Cisco Catalyst Supervisor Engine 6L-E features a single console port and a single IP address to manage all system features. Remote in-band management is available with SNMP, Telnet client, BOOTP, and Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP). Support for local or remote out-of-band management is delivered through a terminal or modem attached to the console interface. The Cisco Smartports macro for Cisco Catalyst switches is also supported, simplifying the configuration of the critical features for Ethernet networks.

The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E is also FAT file system-capable, allowing images to be copied, saved, and so on with Windows-based machines with a Compact Flash. This capability will be available in a future software release. (See Table 7.)

Table 7. Key Supervisor Engine 6L-E Management Features

Feature and Description	Supervisor Engine 6L-E
Compact Flash Support	Yes, 64 and 128 MB options
FAT file system Support	Yes
SPAN	Up to 8 sessions; ingress and/or egress

The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E also delivers a comprehensive set of management tools to provide the required visibility and control in the network. Managed with CiscoWorks solutions, Cisco Catalyst switches can be configured and managed to deliver end-to-end device, VLAN, traffic, and policy management. The CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS) bundle offers tools such as CiscoWorks Resource Manager Essentials and CiscoView. These web-based management tools offer several services, including automated inventory collection, software deployment, easy tracking of network changes, views into device availability, and quick isolation of error conditions.

Advanced Security

The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E also increases network security with a rich set of Cisco NAC capabilities and 802.1X-based user authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA). The security policy enforcement is uncompromised with the wire-rate, dedicated access control lists (ACLs) to fend off ever-increasing virus and security attacks. The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E offers powerful, easy-to-use tools to effectively prevent untraceable man-in-the-middle attacks, control-plane resource exhaustion, IP spoofing, and flooding attacks, without any change to the end-user or host configurations. Secure remote access, file transfers, and network management are accomplished with the Secure Shell (SSH Versions 1 and 2) Protocol, Secure Copy Protocol (SCP), and SNMPv3, respectively. (See Table 8.)

Table 8. Key Supervisor Engine 6L-E Security Features

Feature and Description	Supervisor Engine 6L-E
Security Hardware Entries	16,000 per direction (32,000 total)
Cisco NAC and DHCP Snooping Entries	3072
802.1x	Yes
802.1x extensions	Yes
IP Source Guard, Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI), and DHCP Snooping	Yes
Cisco NAC	Yes

Optimized Power Consumption

Power consumption on the Supervisor Engine 6L-E is optimized, and the supervisor shows a 70 percent decline in power consumed/Gbps when compared with the previous generation Layer 2 Supervisor WS-X4013+. The Supervisor also allows the Cisco Catalyst 4500 chassis to minimize power usage by automatically sensing unused slots and turn off power to the ASICs on unused slots. When combined with Cisco Catalyst 4500 line cards, the system supports PoE, Cisco enhanced PoE and PoEP ready with support for 30W/port.

Features at a Glance - For IP Base Image Basic Layer 3 Features

• Layer 2 hardware forwarding at 225 mpps

• Layer 2 switch ports and VLAN trunks

• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Encapsulation

• Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP)

• VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) and VTP domains

• VTP Pruning

• Port Security on trunk port

• Port Security on Private VLAN

• Port Security on Voice VLAN

• QinQ Passthrough

• Support for 4096 VLANs per switch

• Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVST+) and Per-VLAN Rapid Spanning Tree (PVRST)

• Spanning Tree PortFast and PortFast Guard

• Spanning Tree UplinkFast and BackboneFast

• 802.1s

• 802.1w

• 802.3ad

• 802.3af (PoE)

• Spanning Tree Root Guard

• Cisco Discovery Protocol

• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Snooping v1, v2, and v3

• IPv6 MLD Snooping v1 and v2

• Cisco EtherChannel^® technology, Cisco Fast EtherChannel technology, and Cisco Gigabit EtherChannel technology across line cards

• Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP)

• Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)

• IGMP Querier

• IGMP Fast Leave

• VMPS client

• Unidirectional Link Detection (UDLD) and aggressive UDLD

• Voice VLAN and VLAN ID (VVID)

• Jumbo Frames (up to 9216 bytes)

• Baby Giants (up to 1600 bytes)

• Traffic Storm Control (formally known as Broadcast/Multicast Suppression)

• Forced 10/100 Autonegotiation

• Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU) Guard

• Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)

Layer 3 Features

• Hardware-based IP Cisco Express Forwarding routing at 225 mpps

• Static Routing for IP routing protocols: Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) Stub, Routing Information Protocol (RIP), and RIPv2

IPv6 Support in Hardware

• IPv6 Unicast and Multicast Forwarding (done in hardware)

• IPv6 route entries: 30,000

• IPv6 addressing architecture

• IPv6: Cisco Discovery Protocol IPv6 address family

• IPv6: Cisco Express Forwarding in hardware

• IPv6: Extended ACL

• IPv6: ICMP Rate Limiting

• IPv6: ICMPv6

• IPv6: ICMPv6 Redirect

• IPv6 over IEEE 802.1Q

• IPv6: Loopback

• IPv6: Multicast Forwarding Information Base (MFIB) for IPv6

• IPv6: MLDv1 and v2

• IPv6: Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) Path Discovery for IPv6

• IPv6: Ping

• IPv6: Router Alert Option

• IPv6: SSH over an IPv6 Transport

• IPv6: Stateless Autoconfiguration

• IPv6: Static routes within IPv6

• IPv6: AAA

• IPv6: Telnet

• IPv6: TFTP

• IPv6: Traceroute

• IPv6: Duplicate Address Detection

• IPv6: Standard ACL

• IPv6: Hop-by-hop option header: Done in software

• IPv6: uRPF strict mode

• PIMv6 (Sparse Mode)

High-Availability Features

• NSF/SSO

• Full-image ISSU

• NSF capable

QoS Features

• Sophisticated QoS and Traffic Management

• Modular QoS CLI (MQC)

• Per-port, per-VLAN QoS

• Eight queues per port

• Dynamic Tx Queue Sizing

• Strict Priority Queuing

• IP differentiated services code point (DSCP)

• 802.1p: Class of service

• Flexible Classification Marking

• Classification and marking based on full Layer 3 and Layer 4 headers

• Input and output policing based on Layer 3 and Layer 4 headers

• Support for 16,000 policers with flexible assignment for input and output

• 2-Rate, 3-Color Policing

• Shaping and sharing output queue management

• DBL: Congestion-avoidance feature

• Auto-QoS command-line interface (CLI) for VoIP deployments

• Table Map Support

Predictable Performance

• 280 Gbps switching fabric

• Layer 2 hardware forwarding at 225 mpps

• No performance penalty with advanced Layer 3 and Layer 4 services enabled

• Software-based learning at a sustained rate of 8,800 hosts per second

• Support for 55,000 unicast MAC addresses

• Support for 16,000 multicast MAC addresses

• Support for 57,000 entries in routing table (shared between unicast and multicast)

• Scalability to 4,096 virtual ports (VLAN port instances)

• Bandwidth aggregation up to 16 Gbps through Cisco Gigabit EtherChannel technology

• Bandwidth aggregation up to 160 Gbps for 10 Gigabit Ethernet through 10 Gigabit Ethernet Cisco EtherChannel technology

• Hardware-based multicast management

• Hardware-based ACLs

Comprehensive Management

• Single console port and single IP address to manage all system features

• Software configuration management, including local and remote storage

• Optional Compact Flash memory card to store software images for backup and easy software upgrades

• FAT file system support

• Manageable through CiscoWorks Windows network-management software on a per-port and per-switch basis, providing a common management interface for Cisco routers, switches, and hubs

• SNMP v1, v2, and v3 instrumentation, delivering comprehensive in-band management

• CLI-based management console to provide detailed out-of-band management

• Remote Monitoring (RMON) software agent to support four RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events) for enhanced traffic management, monitoring, and analysis

• Analysis support, including ingress port, egress port, and VLAN SPAN

• Layer 2 Traceroute

• Cisco Smartports macros

• SPAN ACL filtering

• Enhanced SNMP MIB support

• Network Timing Protocol (NTP)

Advanced Security

• TACACS+ and RADIUS, which enable centralized control of the switch and restrict unauthorized users from altering the configuration

• Standard and extended ACLs on all ports

• 802.1x user authentication (with port security)

• 802.1x with VLAN assignment, voice VLAN

• Router ACLs (RACLs) on all ports (no performance penalty)

• VLAN ACLs (VACLs)

• Port ACLs (PACLs)

• Private VLANs (PVLANs) on access and trunk ports

• DHCP Snooping and Option 82 insertion

• Port Security

• Sticky Port Security on Voice VLAN

• SSHv1 and v2

• Unicast Port Flood Blocking

• DAI

• IP Source Guard

• VLAN Management Policy Server (VMPS) client

• Cisco NAC Layer 2 802.1X

• Cisco NAC LAN Port IP

• 802.1X Inaccessible Authentication Bypass

• Voice VLAN Sticky Port Security

• SCP

• uRPF Strict Mode (in hardware)

Management

• SNMP v1, v2, and v3

• RMON I and II

• RFC 1213-MIB (MIB II)

• UDP-MIB

• TCP-MIB

• CISCO-FLASH-MIB

• CISCO-IMAGE-MIB

• RFC 2233 (IF-MIB)

• CISCO-CONFIG-MAN-MIB

• CISCO-MEMORY-POOL

• CISCO-CDP-MIB

• RMON-MIB lite (RFC 1757)

• RMON2-MIB lite (RFC 2021)

• HC-RMON-MIB

• SMON-MIB

• ENTITY-MIB (V1-RFC 2037) (V2-RFC 2737)

• CISCO-PROCESS-MIB

• CISCO-CONFIG-COPY-MIB

• CISCO-ENTITY-EXT-MIB

• CISCO-ENTITY-ASSET-MIB

• CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB

• CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB

• CISCO-ENVMON-MIB

• BRIDGE-MIB (RFC 1493)

• CISCO-PAGP-MIB

• CISCO-PRIVATE-VLAN-MIB

• CISCO-STP-EXTENSIONS-MIB

• CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB

• CISCO-VLAN-IFTABLE-RELATIONSHIP-MIB

• IGMP-MIB

• PIM-MIB

• CISCO-ENTITY-VENDORTYPE-OID-MIB

• CISCO-SYSLOG-MIB

• CISCO-BULK-FILE-MIB

• CISCO-CLASS-BASED-QOS-MIB

• CISCO-FTP-CLIENT-MIB

• CISCO-IGMP-FILTER-MIB

• CISCO-IPMROUTE-MIB

• CISCO-PORT-SECURITY-MIB

• CISCO-RMON-CONFIG-MIB

• CISCO-VTP-MIB

• ETHERLIKE-MIB

• EXPRESSION-MIB

• CISCO-PORT-STORM-CONTROL-MIB

Industry Standards

• Ethernet: IEEE 802.3 and 10BASE-T

• Fast Ethernet: IEEE 802.3u, 100BASE-TX, and 100BASE-FX

• Gigabit Ethernet: IEEE 802.3z and 802.3ab

• 10 Gigabit Ethernet: IEEE 802.3ae

• IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol

• IEEE 802.1w Rapid Reconfiguration of Spanning Tree

• IEEE 802.1s Multiple VLAN Instances of Spanning Tree

• IEEE 802.3 ad LACP

• IEEE 802.1p CoS Prioritization

• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN

• IEEE 802.1X User Authentication

• 1000BASE-X (GBIC)

• 1000BASE-X (SFP)

• 1000BASE-SX

• 1000BASE-LX/LH

• 1000BASE-ZX

• RMON I and II standards

LAN Base Image

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(53)SG also has a LAN Base Software image with an IP Base image upgrade option. These will complement the existing IP Base and Enterprise Services images. The LAN base image is supported on the Supervisor6L-E bundles (WS-C4506E-S6L-96V+, WS-C4503E-S6L-48V+). It is primarily focused on customers Layer 2 requirements and therefore many of the IP Base features have been removed. If at a later date some of the features are required, the IP upgrade image is recommended.

The LAN Base image will not support the following features currently offered in the IP Base image - 10Gig Uplinks (10G uplinks can be enabled via license WS-C4500-10G-LIC or an upgrade to IP Base Image), FHRP(HSRP/VRRP), GLBP, L2PT & QinQ, Auto QoS,EIGRP Stub, PIM SM/DM, MLD Snooping, Flex Link, PVST+, RPVST+, EPoE/PoEP, EEM, TDR, SSO,ISSU, CTS and Smartports (Role based Macros).

Note: The minimum IOS for Supervisor6L-E and related bundles is IOS12.2(52)XO. IOS12.2(53)SG is expected in May 2009.

Table 9 shows supported Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series line cards and modules.

Table 9. Supported Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series Line Cards and Modules

Line-Card PID	Description
WS-X4648-RJ45V-E	Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series, 48-port 802.3af PoE 10/100/1000 (RJ-45)
WS-X4648-RJ45V+E	Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series 48-Port PoEP ready 10/100/1000 (RJ-45)
WS-X4624-SFP-E	Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series 24-Port GE (SFP
WS-X4606-X2-E	Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series 6-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet (X2)
CVR-X2-SFP	Cisco TwinGig Converter Module

Table 10 shows supported Cisco Catalyst 4500 classic line cards and modules.

Table 10. Supported Cisco Catalyst 4500 Classic Line Cards and Modules

Line-Card PID	Description
WS-X4548-GB-RJ45V+	Cisco Catalyst 4500 PoEP ready 10/100/1000, 48-Port (RJ-45)
WS-X4548-GB-RJ45V	Cisco Catalyst 4500 PoE 802.3af 10/100/1000, 48 ports (RJ-45)
WS-X4148-FE-BD-LC	Cisco Catalyst 4500 Fast Ethernet Switching Module, 48-port 100BASE-BX-D SMF (LC)
WS-X4124-FX-MT	Cisco Catalyst 4000 Fast Ethernet Switching Module, 24-port 100BASE-FX (MT-RJ)
WS-X4148-FX-MT	Cisco Catalyst 4500 Fast Ethernet Switching Module, 48-port 100BASE-FX multimode fiber (MMF)
WS-X4124-RJ45	Cisco Catalyst 4500 10/100 Module, 24 ports (RJ-45)
WS-X4148-RJ	Cisco Catalyst 4500 10/100 Module, 48 ports (RJ-45)
WS-X4148-RJ21	Cisco Catalyst 4500 10/100 Module, 48-port telco (4 x RJ-21)
WS-X4248-RJ21V	Cisco Catalyst 4500 PoE 802.3af 10/100, 48 ports (RJ-21)
WS-X4224-RJ45V	Cisco Catalyst 4500 PoE 803.3af 10/100, 24 ports (RJ-45)
WS-X4248-RJ45V	Cisco Catalyst 4500 PoE 802.3af 10/100, 48 ports (RJ-45)
WS-X4248-FE-SFP	Cisco Catalyst 4500 Fast Ethernet Switching Module, 48-port 100BASE-X (SFP)
WS-X4232-GB-RJ	Cisco Catalyst 4500 32-Port 10/100 (RJ-45), 2 Gigabit Ethernet (GBIC) modules
WS-X4302-GB	Cisco Catalyst 4500 Gigabit Ethernet Module, 2 ports (GBIC)
WS-X4306-GB	Cisco Catalyst 4500 Gigabit Ethernet Module, 6 ports (GBIC)
WS-X4506-GB-T	Cisco Catalyst 4500 Gigabit Ethernet Module, 6 ports 10/100/1000 802.3af PoE or 1000BASE-X (SFP)
WS-X4418-GB	Cisco Catalyst 4500 Gigabit Ethernet Module, server switching 18 ports (GBIC)
WS-X4448-GB-SFP	Cisco Catalyst 4500 Gigabit Ethernet Module, 48 ports 1000BASE-X (optional SFPs)
WS-X4424-GB-RJ45	Cisco Catalyst 4500 24-Port 10/100/1000 Module (RJ-45)
WS-X4548-GB-RJ45	Cisco Catalyst 4500 Enhanced 48-Port 10/100/1000 Module (RJ-45)
WS-X4524-GB-RJ45V	Cisco Catalyst 4500 PoE 802.3af 10/100/1000, 24 ports (RJ-45)

Supported Pluggables

• GLC-T: 1000BASE-T SFP

• GLC-SX-MM: Gigabit Ethernet SFP, LC connector, SX transceiver

• GLC-LH-SM: Gigabit Ethernet SFP, LC connector, LX/LH transceiver

• GLC-ZX-SM: 1000BASE-ZX SFP

• Cisco Coarse Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (CWDM) Gigabit Interface Converter (GBIC) solution

• Cisco CWDM SFP solution

• X2-10GE-LR: 10GBASE-LR X2 module

• X2-10GE-CX4: 10GBASE-CX4 X2 module

• X2-10GE-LX4: 10GBASE-LX4 X2 module

• X2-10GE-SR: 10GBASE-SR X2 module

• X2-10GE-ER: 10GBASE-ER X2 module

• X2-10GE-LRM: 10GBASE-LRM X2 module

• X2-10GB-DWDM: 10GBASE-DWDM X2 module

• X2-10GB-ZR: 10GBASE-ZR X2 module

Indicator and Port Specifications

• System status: Green (operational); red (faulty)

• Switch usage load: 1 to 100 percent aggregate switching usage

• Console: RJ-45 female

• Reset (switch recessed protected)

• Uplinks: Link and active

• Image management port: 10/100/1000 BASE-TX (RJ-45 female) data terminal equipment (DTE); green (good); orange (disabled); off (not connected)

Software Requirements

The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine 6L-E is supported only in Cisco IOS Software and is not supported in the Cisco Catalyst Operating System Software. The minimum software versions are as follows:

• Supervisor Engine 6L-E, Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(53)SG or later

Environmental Conditions

• Operating temperature: 32 to 104ºF (0 to 40ºC)

• Storage temperature: -40 to 167ºF (-40 to 75ºC)

• Relative humidity: 10 to 90 percent, noncondensing

• Operating altitude: -60 to 2000m

Table 11 provides ordering information.

Table 11. Ordering Information

Product Number	Description
WS-X45-Sup6L-E (=)	Cisco Catalyst 4500 E Series Supervisor Engine 6L-E, 2x10GE (X2) or 4x1GE (SFP), Console RJ-45
S45EIPB-12252SG (=)	Cisco CAT4500E IOS IP BASE W/O CRYPTO
S45EIPBK9-12252SG (=)	Cisco CAT4500E IOS IP BASE SSH

Warranty

Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series and Catalyst 4500 switches are covered by the Cisco Limited Lifetime Hardware Warranty. For more information, see this document on Cisco.com: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/warranty/English/LH2DEN__.html.

Note: If you purchased the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E before May 1, 2009, it is covered by the Cisco 90-Day Limited Hardware Warranty. For more information, see this document on Cisco.com: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/warranty/English/901DEN__.html.

Cisco Technical Support Services

Cisco Technical Support Services help to ensure that your products from Cisco operate efficiently, remain highly available, and benefit from current system software to assist you in effectively managing your network service while controlling operational costs.

Cisco Technical Support Services provide significant benefits that go beyond what is offered under the Cisco warranty policy. Services available under a Cisco SMARTnet^® service contract that are not covered under a warranty include the following:

• Latest software updates

• Rapid replacement of hardware in next-day, 4-hour, or 2-hour dispatch options

• Ongoing technical support through the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC)

• Registered access to www.cisco.com

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To learn more about how you can take advantage of Cisco Technical Support Services, talk to your Cisco representative or visit Cisco Technical Support Services at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/svcs/ps3034/ps2827/serv_category_home.html.

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