Cisco WS-C4506E-S6L-96V+ Switch

Overview

The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches enable Borderless Networks, providing high performance, mobile, and secure user experiences through Layer 2-4 switching investments. They enable security, mobility, application performance, video, and energy savings over an infrastructure that supports resiliency, virtualization, and automation. Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches provide borderless performance, scalability, and services with reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and superior investment protection.

The Cisco Catalyst 4500 (Figure 1) has a centralized forwarding architecture that enables collaboration, virtualization, and operational manageability through simplified operations. With forward and backward compatibility spanning multiple generations, the new Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series provides exceptional investment protection and deployment flexibility to meet the evolving needs of organizations of all sizes. The Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series platform has 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) uplinks and supports Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) and Universal PoE (UPOE), enabling customers to future proof their network.

E-Series chassis come in four different form factors: 3-slot (4503-E), 6-slot (4506-E), 7-slot (4507R+E), and 10-slot (4510R+E). 4503-E, 4506-E, 4507R+E, and 4510R+E chassis are extremely flexible and support either 24 or 48 Gbps per line-card slot. Integrated resiliency in the Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series includes 1 + 1 supervisor engine redundancy (10-slot and 7-slot chassis only), redundant fans, software-based fault tolerance, and 1 + 1 power supply redundancy. Integrated resiliency in both hardware and software minimizes network downtime, helping to ensure workforce productivity, profitability, and customer success.

The Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series extends control to the network edge with intelligent network services, including sophisticated quality of service (QoS), predictable performance, advanced security, comprehensive management, and integrated resiliency. Scalability of these intelligent network services is made possible with dedicated, specialized resources known as ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM). Ample TCAM resources (up to 384,000 entries) enable “high feature capacity”, which provides wire-speed routing and switching performance independent of provisioning of services such as QoS and security.

Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Chassis

The Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series offers four chassis options and four supervisor engine options (Table 1). It provides a common architecture that can scale up to 388 ports. The Cisco Catalyst redundant R+E chassis offer high availability by supporting 1 + 1 redundant supervisor engines with subsecond failover time and full-image In-Service Software Upgrades (ISSUs). Nonstop forwarding with stateful switchover (NSF/SSO) and ISSU help ensure continuous packet forwarding during supervisor engine switchover to help ensure high availability for collaboration applications and voice over IP (VoIP). Using the same line cards as the widely deployed Cisco Catalyst 4000 Series Switches and classic Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches, the Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series furthers Cisco's commitment to affordable enterprise and branch-office scalability.

Table 1.         Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Chassis Features

Configuration Alternatives

The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series offers a powerful and flexible network solution that can be built with eight supervisor engine alternatives. Each provides a high-performance, centralized, shared-memory switch fabric, protecting your line-card investment by supporting the addition of optional higher layer engines (Table 2).

Table 2.         Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Supervisor Engine Support

The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series has flexible interface types and port densities that allow you to mix and match network configurations to meet the specific needs of campus networks (Table 3).

Table 3.         Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Port Densities

Configuration Flexibility and Modular Superiority

You can mix and match Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Line Cards to suit numerous LAN access, server connectivity, small and medium-sized business (SMB), or branch-office deployments. The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series supports the line cards listed in Table 4 by part number.

Table 4.         Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Line Cards

Table 5 lists the minimum software requirements for the Cisco Catalyst 4500 supervisor engines.

Table 5.         Cisco Catalyst Supervisor Engine Software Minimum Requirements

Managing the Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Switch

Network management applications are instrumental in lowering operating expenditures (OpEx) while improving network availability by simplifying and automating many of the day-to-day tasks associated with managing an end‑to-end network. The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches offer both a superior CLI for detailed configuration and Cisco Prime infrastructure for unified wired plus wireless management. Prime infrastructure provides day 0 and ongoing provisioning, ongoing monitoring and maintenance, configuration templates, and device and user 360‑degree views and serves as the FNF collector for user traffic views using the Prime Assurance Manager module.

For detailed information about Cisco Prime infrastructure, go to http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12239/index.html.

Unified Access One Management

Cisco Prime Infrastructure combines the wireless functionality of Cisco Prime Network Control System  (NCS) and the wired functionality of Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution  (LMS) with rich application performance monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities of Cisco Prime Assurance Manager.

This single solution can enable IT organizations to consolidate tools and converge workflows, reducing operational overhead and increasing productivity. It provides a new operational model based on lifecycle processes aligned with the way network operators do their jobs.

Cisco Prime Infrastructure provides:

●    Converged wired and wireless management of access, branch, and wide area networks

●    Comprehensive network lifecycle management, including user access visibility, inventory, configuration management, plug and play, radio frequency planning, and best practices reporting

●    End-to-end application and service assurance visibility to quickly isolate and troubleshoot performance issues, using technologies such as flexible NetFlow, Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR), and Medianet Performance Agent

●    Prime 360 Experience providing a relational, multidimensional view of users, applications, and network to simplify the diagnostics and remediation of network and service affecting issues

Cisco Prime Infrastructure is built with scalability and extensibility in mind. It has the ability to manage global enterprise networks with thousands of network devices and hundreds of thousands of access devices, or smaller commercial networks with the same level of control and resiliency. It also provides powerful REST-based APIs enabling IT and service organizations to gather and distribute network information for operations, capacity planning, automation, and business intelligence.

Physical Specifications

Table 6 lists physical specifications.

Table 6.         Physical Specifications of Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Chassis

Power Supply Indicators and Interfaces

●    Output Fail LED (per unit): RED

●    Input OK LED(per input): Green

●    Fan OK LED(per input): Green

Tables 7 and 8 describe power supply specification.

Table 7.         Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Power Supply Specifications (Data Only)

Table 8.         Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Power Supply Specifications (Data and PoE)

Additional notes for Tables 7 and 8:

●    Output power is per power supply unless otherwise stated.

●    Heat-dissipation numbers represent the power-conversion losses of the power supply in operation.

●    The number of power devices supported depends on customer configuration.

Fan Trays

Each Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series uses a single fan tray for cooling. All fan trays are composed of independent fans. If one fan fails, the system will continue to operate without a significant degradation in cooling. The system will detect and notify the user (through LED, CLI, and Simple Network Management Protocol [SNMP]) that a fan has failed and the tray needs to be replaced.

Environmental Conditions

The Cisco Catalyst 4500 and 4500E Series require the following 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 3000 meters (m)

Regulatory Standards Compliance

Table 9 lists the regulatory standards compliance of the Cisco Catalyst 4500 and 4500E Series.

Table 9.         Regulatory Standards Compliance

Power and MTBF Information

Table 10 gives power and mean-time-between-failures (MTBF) information for different chassis.

Table 10.       Power and MTBF Information

Note:    All power numbers shown in Table 10 are maximum values recommended for facility power and cooling capacity planning. These figures are not indicative of the actual power draw during operation. Typical power draw is about 20 percent lower than the maximum value shown.

Ordering Information

Table 11 lists the ordering information for chassis, power supplies, supervisor engines, and memory that are commonly used with the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series.

Table 11.       Ordering Information

Licensing for Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series

The three feature sets available with Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Switches are:

●    Cisco IOS XE Software LAN Base: This feature set on the bundles provides Layer 2 features for access.

●    Cisco IOS XE Software IP Base: This feature set is upgradable with a software activation license (SAL). It includes all Layer 2 features and some basic Layer 3 features. ISSU and SSO are supported in this package.

●    Cisco IOS XE Software Enterprise Services: This feature set is upgradable with a SAL; it supports full Layer 3 protocols and advanced features such as complete routing scalability, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF), Policy-Based Routing (PBR), and so on.

These features can be enabled using the software-licensing mechanism. For details about software licensing, refer to http://www.cisco.com/go/sa.