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Cisco Expands Modular Switch Portfolio
and announces the Catalyst 4500 Series.
The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series has been introduced to
deliver redundancy, enhanced network control, integrated inline
power, and investment protection to customers through a new
family of modular mid-range intelligent switches.
The Catalyst 4500 Series enables you to deploy converged networks
with higher levels of performance, resilience, security and
management. You can then more easily converge and control
Internet Protocol (IP) data, streaming video, telephony, and
Internet-based business applications for enhanced workforce
productivity and profitability.
Catalyst 4500 Features and Benefits:
Building upon the proven, scalable architecture of the Catalyst
4000 Series, the Catalyst 4500 Series is most useful where
intelligent services are required and its added levels of
resiliency provide incremental benefits. The Catalyst 4500
Series can also be deployed as an integrated branch-office
solution supporting data, voice and video along with integrated
WAN access.
The Catalyst 4500 Series comprises three chassis:
The Cisco Catalyst 4507R with seven modular slots
and integrated supervisor redundancy.
The Cisco Catalyst 4506 with six modular slots.
The Cisco Catalyst 4503 with three modular slots.
All three share a common architecture that scales up to 240
ports of 10/100, 100BASE-FX Fast Ethernet, 1000BASE-LX, or
10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet.
The Catalyst 4500 Series includes a new Catalyst 4000 Series
Supervisor Engine IV, the control module that defines
and delivers all operational capabilities of the Catalyst
4000 platforms, offering greater scalability and performance.
This Supervisor Engine, when paired with the Catalyst 4507R
chassis, gives customers redundant configurations for
resilient network operation. All chassis support 1+1 redundant
power supplies and can deliver integrated inline Power-for-Power
over Ethernet applications such as IP communications and wireless
access point deployments.
The Catalyst 4500 Series enables customers to extend network
control from the backbone to the edge through intelligent
network services that deliver:
- Predictable, sustainable performance and network services:
Wire-speed Layer 2/3/4 switching at 48 Million packets per
second (Mpps). Sustained wire-speed routing performance
regardless of the number of intelligent services that are
turned on. Policy-based Layer 2/3/4, Quality of Service
(QoS) and traffic management capabilities provide the ability
to classify and prioritize mission-critical and time-sensitive
traffic.
- Integrated resilience: A combination of integrated supervisor
redundancy, power redundancy and integral fault tolerance.
All modules are hot swappable. Integrated resilience across
hardware and software minimizes network downtime, increasing
workforce productivity, enhancing profitability, and improving
customer success.
- Advanced security: Uses IEEE 802.1x for user-level authentication,
Access Control Lists for access control, DHCP (Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol) Interface Tracker (option 82) to
locate a user on a network and protect against spoofing,
and MAC (Media Access Control) Address Notification to inform
administrators of new users.
- Comprehensive management: Through CiscoWorks, customers
have secure, Web-based access to control and manage all
ports, users and services including QoS deployments.
Investment Protection:
The Catalyst 4500 Series utilizes the same line cards and
supervisor engines as the current Catalyst 4000 Series providing
investment protection as customers integrate the new switches
into their existing networks. While the new redundant Catalyst
4507R can only be deployed with Supervisor Engine IV, all
existing Catalyst 4000 family line cards can be used in this
chassis.
The new Catalyst 4000 Supervisor Engine IV is backward compatible
with the widely deployed Catalyst 4006, and existing Catalyst
4000 Series switching line cards. The module also provides
support for the optional NetFlow Services Module, with flow-based
VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) statistics to track and
evaluate network performance.
For more information about Cisco's 4500 series and what the
AVVID Architecture can do for your business, email technical@cisilion.com
or phone us on +44 (0)870 15 25 750
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