Increasing Efficiency – Overview of the Cisco 4500E Series switches

June 2014

Overview of the Cisco 4500E Series switches – Increasing Efficiency

Cisco’s catalyst range of switches offers unmatched performance besides providing a feature-rich backbone network for medium and large sized campuses. The 4500E switch will help your business grow as well as boost efficiency. In fact, the 4500E Series switches are the most preferred switches for distribution deployments.

Catalyst 4500 Series Switches

4500E switches with Supervisor 8-E is known to offer excellent scalability and a wide array of features to meet any level of requirements. 4500E is capable of delivering up to 928 Gbps of bandwidth. It can also scale 384 GB copper ports and 200 GB fiber ports. These switches offer 116 Universal Power of Ethernet, 240 PoE+ in addition to 384 PoE with a 9000W power supply. Virtualization is taken care of by the Virtual Switching System on board.

Other features

4500E Series Switches can extend wired features to wireless that include infrastructure, quality of service, scalability and resiliency. These boast of support for up to 20 Gbps wireless throughput, 2000 wireless clients and 50 access points on a single system. Some of the distributed intelligent services provided by the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches are the WireShark and Flexible NetFlow at all ports. It also features Energy-Efficient Ethernet and Cisco’s EnergyWise technology to manage multiple networks, Personal Computers as well as PoE+.

The heart of Supervisor 8-E is the new Unified Access Data Plan ASIC which can be programmed to accommodate next generation features. It also gives converged APIs across wired and wireless. This provides ample support for software-defined networking operations.  For more information, pricing, and availability, feel free to contact Greentec Systems in the upper right hand corner.