Catalyst 4500 Series: Latest Innovations

• Announcing Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(54)SG for the Catalyst 4500/4900 series platform.
  Delivering Borderless Network services in the campus access and Aggregation, Smart Top of Rack (ToR) services for the data center and additional features for Service Providers.
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• Catalyst 4500-E Supervisor 6L-E enhancements to support full routing protocols BGPv4 , OSPF and EIGRP, Virtualization services , VRF-lite, VRF-Multicast and IPv6 support in hardware providing wire rate forwarding for IPv6 networks.
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• 4500 E-Series 48 port 10/100/1000Mbps data line card to enable high performance Borderless Networks Access
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• 4500 Series added to Smart Business Architecture: Provides higher port densities, extended services, and investment protection at the access layer
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• Cisco Catalyst 4500-E comes with 30-watt PoE+ for new Cisco Unified IP Phones 9900 and 8900 Series
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• 4500-E and 4900 Series Switches obtain IPv6-ready logo phase 2
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Industry's Most Widely Deployed Modular Platform

With more than 500,000 chassis deployed worldwide, Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches provide the foundation for Cisco Borderless Networks as Cisco's leading modular wiring closet and price competitive backbone platform. The Catalyst 4500 E-series delivers key innovations in the areas of security, collaboration, resiliency, virtualization, and green initiatives. Designed for high resiliency, these switches offer maximum investment protection and are compatible with previous and future versions across generations.

Catalyst 4500 Series Video Data Sheet

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The Catalyst 4500 E-Series offers lower total cost of ownership through automation features, power savings, lower entry points, discounted support offers, and limited lifetime warranty. (5:07 min)

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Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches deliver a high-performance, highly secure, and mobile user experience for enterprise wiring closets, access and core layers through innovations in collaboration, security, resiliency, and EnergyWise, with a focus on lowering your total cost of ownership.

Key features include:

• Collaboration:
  • Power over Ethernet (PoE): Comprehensive PoE support, including IEEE 802.3af, 802.11n for wireless access points and PoEP up to 30 watts per port
  • Intelligent services: Hardware-based quality of service, video delivery, multicast, security, Location Service, and IPv6
  • Scalability: Up to 384 PoE ports or 34 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports to support multiple concurrent services
• Operational Efficiency:
  • Automated operations and troubleshooting: Embedded Event Manager, Cisco In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU), Cisco Smart Call Home, Location Services, IP SLA, Smartports, AutoQoS
  • Energy sustainability: Switch-level energy efficiency and full support for Cisco EnergyWise architecture
  • Hot-swappable components: Supervisor, line cards, power supplies, and fan tray are hot-swappable
• Resiliency: Hardware- and software-based resiliency features minimize planned and unplanned network downtime
  • Hardware resiliency: All critical components, such as supervisors, power supplies, and fans, are redundant
  • Software resiliency: Subsecond supervisor switchover (SSO) and Cisco In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) occur without dropping IP calls
  • Extensive security features: Network disruptions from security threats are minimized
• Investment protection:
  
  • Backward and forward compatibility: Mix Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series line cards and classic line cards in the same chassis without performance degradation
  • Investment enhancement: Upgrade currently deployed classic line card features to the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6-E or Supervisor Engine 6L-E
  • IPv4 and IPv6: Optimized for simultaneous IPv4/IPv6 deployment or migration

For centralized management, Cisco Network Assistant simplifies configuration and administration with configuration wizards that greatly simplify implementation of intelligent network services.