Cisco Supervisor Engine 8L-E - Control processor - 10GbE - plug-in module - with Cisco mGig Line Card (WS-X4748-12X48U+E)
- Cisco Universal Power over Ethernet (UPOE) for unprecedented convergence to IP network infrastructure
- Campus ready for connectivity to next-generation NBASE-TTM compatible endpoints such as 802.11ac Wave2 multigigabit access points, multigigabit switches, network interface cards (NICs), and adapters
- Application visibility through Flexible NetFlow
- Virtual Switching System (VSS) for operational simplicity and resiliency
- Cisco IOS XE software, which provides the ability to host third-party applications
- Energy efficiency with support for 802.3az Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE)-capable line cards
- Great resiliency through In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU)
- First and only modular switch with 8 bidirectional line-rate Switched Port Analyzer/Remote SPAN (SPAN/RSPAN) sessions
The Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 8L-E is an enterprise-class campus access and price/performance aggregation supervisor engine designed to provide up to 560 Gbps per system with E-Series chassis. The Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 8L-E provides 48 Gbps per slot with optimal features such as Flexible NetFlow (FNF), integrated Wireshark, TrustSec and MACSec security, and APIC-EM orchestration leading to reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and outstanding investment protection. These capabilities, along with four SFP/SFP+ uplinks and up to 240 Gigabit Ethernet Power over Ethernet (PoE), PoE Plus (PoEP), and Cisco Universal PoE (UPoE) ports, make this supervisor engine the leading Cisco Access low-scale supervisor engine in the Cisco Catalyst Family.
The Supervisor Engine 8L-E is also built with price-performance aggregation deployments in mind, helping to enable denser Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet fiber deployments with enterprise-class aggregation functions. The Supervisor Engine 8L-E facilitates user experiences for enterprise, public sector, midmarket, and commercial customer business-critical applications. Cisco leadership in borderless networks is extended with important features: Cisco TrustSec, Cisco MultiGig, Flexible NetFlow, Cisco EnergyWise, Cisco UPoE, and many other feature enhancements offered by the Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 8L-E.
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Cisco Virtual Switching Systems (VSS)
Any two Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Switches with this supervisor engine can be pooled together into a VSS. The two switches are connected with 10/1 Gigabit Ethernet links called Virtual Switch Links (VSLs). These links are enabled through fiber as well as on copper connectivity. After a VSS is created, it acts as a single virtual Cisco Catalyst switch and delivers up to 1 terabit of aggregate bandwidth with 450 Mpps performance. The solution supports up to 480 ports of 1-Gbps and 124 ports of 10-Gbps systems deployed with VSS.
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Simplified operations through automation
As campus switching has grown to support increasing enterprise demands, so has the need to deploy and manage new and evolving technologies. Simplified operations are critical in meeting these challenges and achieving increased operational efficiency through proactive management and reduction in unplanned network downtime.
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Comprehensive security with Cisco TrustSec
The Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 8L-E can be transparently integrated into campus switching environments for a comprehensive security solution based on Cisco TrustSec. The Cisco Catalyst Supervisor Engine 8L-E is a foundational element of the Cisco TrustSec architecture with support for the following functionalities:
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Optimized application visibility with Flexible NetFlow
Cisco IOS Flexible NetFlow is the next generation in flow monitoring technology, allowing optimization of the network infrastructure resources, reducing operation costs, and improving capacity planning and security incident detection with increased flexibility and scalability. The Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 8L-E provides 128,000 Flexible NetFlow entries. Based on a custom-built application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), the Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 8L-E delivers unprecedented flexibility and comprehensive flow visibility extending from Layer 2 to Layer 4 (TCP, UDP flags, and so on). The flow data collected by Flexible NetFlow can be exported to an external collector for analysis and reporting or tracked by EEM. The Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 8L-E enables powerful on-box and customizable event correlation and policy actions with EEM, allowing the switches to trigger customized event alarms or policy actions when the predefined condition is met. With no external appliance required, customers are able to use existing infrastructure to perform traffic monitoring, making traffic analysis economical even on large IP networks.
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IPv6 support
IPv6 is critical for the expansion of IP address space and is being mandated by governments and enterprises worldwide. The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 8L-E supports IPv6 Unicast and Multicast in hardware for full line-rate forwarding performance of up to 110 Mpps. The Supervisor Engine 8L-E efficiently and dynamically allocates hardware table resources between IPv4 and IPv6 routes for optimal IPv4-to-IPv6 migration. The Supervisor Engine 8L-E supports Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) snooping for IPv6, enhancing performance and reducing network traffic by allowing a switch to dynamically add hosts to and remove hosts from a multicast group.
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Simplified and scalable network virtualization with Easy Virtual Network (EVN)
Enterprise networks use single foundational infrastructure to build multiple logical overlay networks for diversified closed usergroups, regulatory, secure IT applications, and so on. On campuses the traditional Multi-VRF solution is widely adopted and deployed to solve such network segmentation challenges. The Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series platform simplifies virtual network operation and maximizes scalability with the Cisco campus end-to-end Easy Virtual Network (EVN) technology.
