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Installation and Configuration Note for the Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine V
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Supervisor Engine V
Figure 1 Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine V (WS-X4516)
The supervisor engine includes interfaces for SNMP, console, and Telnet, and provides management
functions, such as environmental status monitoring.
The Supervisor Engine V provides the following features:
• 512-MB Onboard SDRAM memory
• 512-KB NVRAM
• 64-MB onboard Flash memory (in addition to removable Flash memory)
• 96-Gbps switching capacity, 72 million packets-per-second actual forwarding rate
• Support for up to 32,000 MAC addresses for Layer 2 switching (up to 64,000 entries, 16-way
associative lookup table)
• Support for up to 4,000 VLANs
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802.1Q VLAN tagging on all ports
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Cisco Inter Switch Link (ISL) tagging on all ports
• Up to 64,000 unicast and multicast forwarding entries, expandable to 256, 000 unicast and multicast
IPV4 forwarding information base (FIB) entries
• Support for all Catalyst 4500 series switching modules (except WS-X4232-L3 and WS-X4019)
• Default Layer 2 forwarding at startup (hardware based)
• Broadcast suppression on a per-port basis
• Multicast suppression on a per-port basis
• Unicast suppression on a per-port basis
• EtherChannel at 10/100/1000 Mbps
• Protocol filtering on a per-port basis
• Dynamic protocol filtering
• Support for IEEE 802.3x flow control
• Hardware-based Layer 3 Switching
• Hardware-based multicast
• Hardware-based access lists
• IP telephony
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