Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E Feature Highlights
– Centralized 280-Gbps switching capacity with 225 millions of packets per second (Mpps) of throughput
– IP routing protocols: EIGRP, OSPF, Routing Information Protocol (RIP), and RIPv2
– BGP Version 4 (BGPv4) and Multicast Border Gateway Protocol (MBGP)
– Virtual Route Forwarding-Lite (VRF-Lite)
– IPv6 support in hardware, providing line-rate forwarding for IPv6 packets
– Flexibility to operate at 6 or 24 Gbps per line-card slot
– Ability to mix and match 6-Gbps classic and 24-Gbps E-Series line cards with no performance degradation
– Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks (X2 optics)
– Cisco TwinGig Converter Modules that enable flexibility for up to four Gigabit Ethernet (Small Form-Factor Pluggable [SFP]) uplinks in the X2 optic slots
– Low latency
– Hardware forwarding entries: 57,000
– Dynamic hardware forwarding table allocations for ease of IPv4-to-IPv6 migration
– Quality-of-service (QoS) services hardware entries: 16,000 per direction
– Advanced QoS support with up to eight queues per port, dynamic queue sizing, and hierarchical policing to provide flexibility and control
– Security services entries: 16,000 per direction
– Support for the following software packages: LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services (Enterprise Services support introduced with Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(53)SG2)
The Supervisor Engine 6L-E delivers 24 Gbps per slot of switching capacity when deployed with the E-Series line cards in a Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series chassis. You can mix and match classic line cards and E-Series line cards within a Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series chassis with no performance degradation. When you deploy the Cisco Catalyst Supervisor Engine 6L-E with classic line cards, all of the new features except the 24-Gbps per-slot switching capacity are inherited. The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E is also compatible with classic Cisco Catalyst 4500 line cards, chassis (3-, 6-, and 7-slot), and power supplies, providing full investment protection.

The Cisco Catalyst Supervisor Engine 6L-E also provides flexibility and an easy migration path to 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks with dual-purpose X2 slots that can accommodate wire-speed 10 Gigabit Ethernet optics or Cisco TwinGig Converter Modules, enabling Gigabit Ethernet SFP optics.

The capabilities and investment protection provided by the Supervisor Engine 6L-E facilitate not only adequate scalability for today’s network access requirements but also investment protection of your network components by providing significant software functions for future deployments.