Enterprise-Class Security and Reliability for the Medium-Sized Business
Overview
Figure 1. Cisco Catalyst 4503 Switch with Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine II-Plus-TS and Two Line Cards
Figure 2. Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine II-Plus-TS
Integrated Reliability and Serviceability
Scalable Performance
Comprehensive Management for Ease of Use
Part of the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Family
Table 1. Cisco Catalyst Supervisor Engines for Layer 2 Access Only
Feature |
Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine II-Plus-TS |
Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine II-Plus |
Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor II-Plus-10GE |
Layer 2-4 Performance |
48 mpps and 64 Gbps |
48 mpps and 64 Gbps |
81 mpps and 108 Gbps |
Multilayer Switching |
Basic Layer 2-4 services |
Basic Layer 2-4 services |
Basic Layer 2-4 services |
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP),Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) |
No |
No |
No |
EIGRP Stub |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Redundant Capable |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
CPU (MHz) |
266 MHz |
266 MHz |
667 MHz |
NetFlow Support |
No |
No |
No |
IP Forwarding Information Base (FIB) Entries |
32,000 |
32,000 |
32,000 |
Chassis Support |
Cisco Catalyst 4503 and 4503-E Switches chassis |
Cisco Catalyst 4503, 4506, 4507R, 4503-E, 4506-E, 4507R-E and 4507R+E Switches chassis |
Cisco Catalyst 4503, 4506, 4507R, 4503-E, 4506-E, 4507R-E and 4507R+E Switches chassis |
Quality-of-Service (QoS) Sharing |
Nonblocking Gigabit |
Nonblocking Gigabit |
All ports |
Broadcast Suppression |
Software1 |
Software2 |
Hardware |
Multicast Suppression |
No |
No |
Hardware |
802.1Q-in-801.1Q (Q-in-Q) |
No |
No |
In hardware |
Active Redundant Supervisor Engine Uplinks |
No |
2 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks |
Two 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks and four Gigabit Ethernet uplinks |
Synchronous Dynamic RAM (SDRAM) |
256 MB |
256 MB |
256 MB (512 MB optional upgrade) |
Onboard Flash Memory |
32 MB |
32 MB |
64 MB |
Active Virtual LANs (VLANs) |
2000 |
2000 |
2000 |
Multicast Entries |
8000 |
8000 |
8000 |
Spanning Tree Protocol Instances |
1500 |
1500 |
1500 |
Switched Virtual Interfaces (SVIs) |
1000 |
1000 |
1000 |
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Snooping |
Yes (16,000) |
Yes (16,000) |
Yes (16,000) |
Security/QoS Hardware Entries |
32,000 |
32,000 |
32,000 |
Policers |
512 egress; 512 ingress |
512 egress; 512 ingress |
512 egress; 512 ingress |
1Hardware performance for nonblocking Gigabit Ethernet ports, and software performance for all other ports.
2Hardware performance for nonblocking Gigabit Ethernet ports, and software performance for all other ports.
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Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine II-Plus-TS Features at a Glance
Layer 2 Features
• Layer 2 hardware forwarding at 48 mpps
• Layer 2 switch ports and VLAN trunks
• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation
• Inter-Switch Link (ISL) VLAN encapsulation (excluding blocking ports on WS-X4418-GB)
• Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP)
• VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) and VTP domains
• Support for 2048 active VLANs and 4096 VLAN IDs per switch
• Spanning-tree PortFast and PortFast guard
• Spanning-tree UplinkFast and BackboneFast
• 802.1s
• 802.1w
• 802.3ad
• Spanning-tree root guard
• Cisco Discovery Protocol
• IGMP snooping Versions 1, 2, and 3
• Cisco EtherChannel® technology, Fast EtherChannel, and Gigabit EtherChannel technology across line cards
• Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP)
• Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
• Unidirectional link detection (UDLD) and aggressive UDLD
• Q-in-Q passthrough
• Jumbo Frames (up to 9216 bytes)
• Baby Giants (up to 1600 bytes)
• Unidirectional Ethernet
• Storm control (formally known as broadcast and multicast suppression)
• Forced 10/100 autonegotiation
• Web Content Communication Protocol Version 2 Layer 2 Redirect
• Private VLAN (PVLAN) Promiscuous Trunk
• Match class of service (CoS) for non-IPv4 traffic
• L2TP
• CoS mutation
• Per VLAN Control Traffic Intercept
Layer 3 Features
• Hardware-based IP Cisco Express Forwarding routing at 48 mpps
• Static IP routing
• Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and RIP2
• Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
• IGMP Versions 1, 2, 3
• IGMP filtering on access and trunk ports
• IP multicast routing protocols (Protocol Independent Multicast [PIM], Source Specific Multicast [SSM], Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol [DVMRP])
• Cisco Group Multicast Protocol server
• Full Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) support
• ICMP Router Discovery Protocol
• IPv6 software switches
• EIGRP stub
• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
Sophisticated QoS and Traffic Management
• Per-port QoS configuration
• Support for four queues per port in hardware
• Strict priority queuing
• IP differentiated service code point (DSCP) and IP Precedence
• Classification and marking based on IP type of service (ToS) or DSCP
• Classification and marking based on full Layer 3 and Layer 4 headers (IP only)
• Input and output policing based on Layer 3 and Layer 4 headers (IP only)
• Support for 512 policers on ingress and 512 policers on egress configured as aggregate or individual
• Shaping and sharing output queue management
• Dynamic Buffer Limiting (DBL): congestion-avoidance feature
• No performance penalty for granular QoS functions
• Auto-QoS CLI for voice-over-IP (VoIP) deployment
• Per-port, per-VLAN QoS
• Selective DBL
Predictable Performance
• 64-Gbps switching fabric
• Layer 2 hardware forwarding at 48 mpps
• Layer 3 hardware-based IP Cisco Express Forwarding routing at 48 mpps
• Layer 4 TCP/User Datagram Protocol (UDP) hardware-based filtering at 48 mpps
• No performance penalty with advanced Layer 3 and Layer 4 services enabled
• Software-based learning at a sustained rate of 500 hosts per second
• Support for 32,000 MAC addresses
• Support for 32,000 entries in routing table (shared between unicast and multicast)
• Bandwidth aggregation up to 16 Gbps through Cisco Gigabit EtherChannel technology
• Hardware-based multicast management
• Hardware-based access control lists (ACLs), router ACLs (RACLs), and VLAN ACLs (VACLs)
Comprehensive Management
• Manageable through Cisco Network Assistant
• Single console port and single IP address to manage all system features
• Software configuration management, including local and remote storage
• 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
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Versions 1, 2, and 3 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
• Support for all nine RMON groups through the use of a Cisco SwitchProbe® analyzer (Switched Port Analyzer [SPAN]) port, which permits traffic monitoring of a single port, a group of ports, or the entire switch from a single network analyzer or RMON probe
• Analysis support, including ingress port, egress port, and VLAN SPAN
• Layer 2 traceroute
• Remote SPAN (RSPAN)
• Cisco Smartports macros
• SPAN ACL filtering
• SPAN CPU port
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client autoconfiguration
• Enhanced SNMP MIB support
• HTTPS
• Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR)
• MAC Address Notification
• Cisco Generic Online Diagnostics (GOLD)
Advanced Network Security
• TACACS+ and RADIUS, which help 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 VLAN assignment, voice VLAN, port security, guest VLAN, private guest VLAN, PVLAN, and RADIUS-supplied session timeout extensions)
• 802.1x accounting
• 802.1x authentication failure
• 802.1x PVLAN assignment
• 802.1x Private Guest VLAN
• 802.1x RADIUS-supplied time out
• NAC Layer 2 802.1x
• NAC Layer 2 IP
• Trusted boundary
• RACLs on all ports (no performance penalty)
• VACLs
• Port ACLs (PACLs)
• PVLANs on access and trunk ports
• DHCP snooping
• DHCP Option 82
• DHCP Option 82 insertion
• DHCP Option 82 Pass Through
• Port security
• Sticky port security
• Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol Versions 1 and 2
• VLAN Management Policy Server (VMPS) client
• Unicast MAC filtering
• Unicast port flood blocking
• Dynamic Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) inspection
• IP Source Guard
• Community PVLANs
• Trunk Port Security
• 802.1x Inaccessible Authentication Bypass
• MAC Authentication Bypass
• Control Plane Policing
• 802.1x Unidirectional Controlled Port
• Voice VLAN Sticky Port Security
• Secure Copy Protocol (SCP)
• EtherChannel Trunk Port Security
• IP Source Guard for Static Hosts
• IEEE 802.1x Multidomain Authentication
High Availability
• HSRP
• VRRP
• Cisco GOLD
Software Requirements
Hardware Requirements
Technical Specifications
Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine II-Plus-TS Performance and Switching Specifications
• 64-Gbps nonblocking switch fabric
• 48-mpps Layer 2 forwarding (hardware)
• 48-mpps Layer 3 and Layer 4 forwarding based on Cisco Express Forwarding (hardware)
• Layers 2 through 4 hardware-based switch engine (application-specific integrated circuit [ASIC] based)
• Centralized design
• Unicast and multicast routing entries: 32,000
• Layer 2 multicast addresses: 16,384
• MAC addresses: 32,768
• VLANs: 2048 active VLANs
• Per-VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST+) and Per-VLAN Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (PVRST)
Traffic and Congestion Management
• Number of queues: four per port
• Type of buffers: dynamic
Switch Architecture Specifications
• Store-and-forward switching
• Functionally transparent line-card architecture
• Packet buffering: dynamic, 16-MB shared memory
• SDRAM: 256 MB
• Onboard flash memory: 32 MB
• Startup configuration: onboard flash memory
• CPU: 266 MHz
Management
• CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS); includes CiscoWorks Resource Manager Essentials
• Cisco Network Assistant
• CiscoView
• BGP4-MIB.my
• BRIDGE-MIB.my* (RFC 1493)
• CISCO-BULK-FILE-MIB.my
• CISCO-CDP-MIB.my
• CISCO-CLASS-BASED-QOS-MIB.my
• CISCO-CONFIG-COPY-MIB.my
• CISCO-CONFIG-MAN-MIB.my
• CISCO-ENTITY-ASSET-MIB.my
• CISCO-ENTITY-EXT-MIB.my
• CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB.my
• CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB.my
• CISCO-ENTITY-VENDORTYPE-OID-MIB.my
• CISCO-ENVMON-MIB.my
• CISCO-FLASH-MIB.my
• CISCO-FTP-CLIENT-MIB.my
• CISCO-HSRP-MIB.my
• CISCO-IETF-IP-MIB.my
• CISCO-IETF-IP-FORWARD-MIB.my
• CISCO-IETF-ISIS-MIB.my
• CISCO-IF-EXTENSION-MIB.my
• CISCO-IGMP-FILTER-MIB.my
• CISCO-IMAGE-MIB.my
• CISCO-IPMROUTE-MIB.my
• CISCO-L2-TUNNEL-CONFIG-MIB.my
• CISCO-L2L3-INTERFACE-CONFIG-MIB.my
• CISCO-LAG-MIB.my
• CISCO-MEMORY-POOL-MIB.my
• CISCO-NDE-MIB.my
• CISCO-PAGP
• MIB.my
• CISCO-PAE-MIB.my
• CISCO-PING-MIB.my
• CISCO-PORT-SECURITY-MIB.my
• CISCO-PORT-STORM-CONTROL-MIB.my
• CISCO-PRIVATE-VLAN-MIB.my CISCO-PROCESS-MIB.my
• CISCO-PRODUCTS-MIB.my CISCO-RF-MIB.my
• CISCO-RMON-CONFIG-MIB.my CISCO-RTTMON-MIB.my
• CISCO-STP-EXTENSIONS-MIB.my CISCO-SYSLOG-MIB.my
• CISCO-VLAN-IFTABLE-RELATIONSHIP-MIB.my
• CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB.my CISCO-VTP-MIB.my
• DOT3-MAU-MIB.my (RFC 3636) ENTITY-MIB.my
• ETHERLIKE-MIB.my
• EXPRESSION-MIB.my
• HC-RMON-MIB.my
• IEEE8021-PAE-MIB.my
• IEEE8023-LAG-MIB.my (802.3ad)
• IF-MIB.my
• IGMP-MIB.my
• IPMROUTE-MIB.my
• NOVELL-IPX-MIB.my
• NOVELL-RIPSAP-MIB.my
• OLD-CISCO-TS-MIB.my
• PIM-MIB.my
• RFC1213-MIB.my (MIB-II)
• RFC1243-MIB.my (APPLETALK MIB)
• RFC1253-MIB.my (OSPF-MIB)
• RMON-MIB.my (RFC 1757)
• RMON2-MIB.my (RFC 2021)
• SMON-MIB.my (Internet draft)
• SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB.my (RFC 2571)
• SNMP-MPD-MIB.my (RFC 2572)
• SNMP-NOTIFICATION-MIB.my (RFC 2573)
• SNMP-TARGET-MIB.my (RFC 2573)
• SNMP-USM-MIB.my (RFC 2574)
• SNMP-VACM-MIB.my (RFC 2575)
• SNMPv2-MIB.my
• TCP-MIB.my
• UDP-MIB.my
• RIP SNMP MIB
Industry Standards
• Ethernet: IEEE 802.3, 10BASE-T
• Fast Ethernet: IEEE 802.3u, 100BASE-TX, 100BASE-FX
• Gigabit Ethernet: IEEE 802.3z, 802.3ab
• IEEE 802.3af PoE
• IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol
• IEEE 802.1w rapid reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol
• IEEE 802.1s multiple VLAN instances of Spanning Tree Protocol
• IEEE 802.3 ad LACP
• IEEE 802.1p CoS prioritization
• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN
• IEEE 802.1x user authentication
• 1000BASE-SX
• 1000BASE-LX/LH
• 1000BASE-ZX
• RMON I and II standards
Supported Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Classic Line Cards
• WS-X4148-FE-BD-LC: Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Fast Ethernet Switching Module, 48-port 100BASE-BX-D SMF (LC)
• WS-X4124-FX-MT: Cisco Catalyst 4000 Series Fast Ethernet Switching Module, 24-port 100BASE-FX (MT-RJ)
• WS-X4148-FX-MT: Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Fast Ethernet Switching Module, 48-port 100BASE-FX multimode fiber (MMF) (MT-RJ)
• WS-X4124-RJ45: Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series 10/100 Module, 24 ports (RJ-45)
• WS-X4148-RJ: Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series 10/100 Module, 48 ports (RJ-45)
• WS-X4148-RJ21: Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series 10/100 Module, 48-port telco (4 x RJ-21)
• WS-X4248-RJ21V: Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series PoE 802.3af 10/100, 48 ports (RJ-21)
• WS-X4224-RJ45V: Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series PoE 803.3af 10/100, 24 ports (RJ-45)
• WS-X4248-RJ45V: Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series PoE 802.3af 10/100, 48 ports (RJ-45)
• WS-X4248-FE-SFP-Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Fast Ethernet Switching Module, 48-port 100BASE-X (SFP)
• WS-X4232-GB-RJ: Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series 32-Port 10/100 (RJ-45), 2-Gigabit Ethernet (GBIC) module
• WS-X4302-GB: Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Gigabit Ethernet Module, 2 ports (GBIC)
• WS-X4306-GB: Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Gigabit Ethernet Module, 6 ports (GBIC)
• WS-X4506-GB-T: Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Gigabit Ethernet Module, 6 ports 10/100/1000 802.3af PoE or 1000BASE-X (SFP)
• WS-X4418-GB: Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Gigabit Ethernet Module, server switching 18 ports (GBIC)
• WS-X4448-GB-SFP: Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Gigabit Ethernet Module, 48 ports 1000BASE-X (optional SFPs)
• WS-X4424-GB-RJ45: Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series 24-Port 10/100/1000 Module (RJ-45)
• WS-X4448-GB-RJ45: Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series 48-Port 10/100/1000 Module (RJ-45)
• WS-X4548-GB-RJ45: Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Enhanced 48-Port 10/100/1000 Module (RJ-45)
• WS-X4524-GB-RJ45V: Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series PoE 802.3af 10/100/1000, 24 ports (RJ-45)
• WS-X4548-GB-RJ45V: Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series PoE 802.3af 10/100/1000, 48 ports (RJ45)
Optics Support
• GLC-T-1000BASE-T SFP
• GLC-SC-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) SFP
• Cisco dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) SFP
• GLC-FE-100BX-U: FE SFP, LC connector BX-U transceiver, 10 kilometers
Indicator and Port Specifications
• System status: green (operational), red (faulty)
• Switch utilization load: 1 to 100 percent aggregate switching usage
• Console: RJ-45
• Reset (switch recessed protected)
• SFP and 10/100/1000 PoE ports: link and active
• Image management port: 10/100BASE-TX (RJ-45 female) data terminal equipment (DTE); green (good), orange (disabled), off (not connected)
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 2000 meters (m) Regulatory Standards Compliance
Table 2. Regulatory Standards Compliance Details
Table 3. Ordering Information
Warranty
Note: If you purchased the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine II-Plus-TS 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.
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