Benefits of Migrating to Cisco® Catalyst®
4500-E Switches with Supervisors 8-LE and 8-E
Trends
Scale/
performance
BYOD
mobility
Advanced
security
Features
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Benefits
Supervisor
Engine 6-LE
Supervisor
Engine 7-E
Supervisor
Engine 7-LE
Supervisor
Engine 8-LE
Supervisor
Engine 8-E
Supervisor capacity
320 Gbps
280 Gbps
848 Gbps
520 Gbps
560 Gbps
928 Gbps
Per-slot throughput
24 Gbps
24 Gbps
48 Gbps
48 Gbps
48 Gbps
48 Gbps
10 Gigabit uplinks
2x10 GE
2x10 GE
4x10 GE
2x10GE
4x10GE
8x10GE
Integrated wireless controller
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Common wired-wireless features
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UADP1 ASIC for wired-wireless
convergence
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Application visibility across
wired-wireless
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Hierarchical wireless QoS
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Easy virtual networking
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Cisco MultiGig Support
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Campus Fabric capability
N/A
N/A
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Native Flexible NetFlow
N/A
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Cisco TrustSec/SGT for wireless
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Native MACsec encryption
N/A
N/A
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Embedded Event Manager
N/A
N/A
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SDN3/programmability
• OpenFlow ready
N/A
N/A
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Cost savings from automated energy
management
UPOE5 Support
N/A
N/A
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Double the power per port to 60W
VSS
N/A
N/A
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Deliver superior resiliency
Cisco TrustSec/SGT2 for wired
Cisco EnergyWise
Other
Latest Unified Access
Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Series
Supervisor
Engine 6-E
Smart Operations
Simplicity
and SDN
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Cisco Catalyst 4500
Feature Comparison
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Ready for gigabit access, BYOD,
pervasive mobility, and Internet of
Things
Enable converged wired-wireless
access for operational simplicity and
scale
Easily segment corporate and personal
device traffic for secure BYOD
Gain deeper visibility into network
usage for better user experience
Orchestrate role-based access to
corporate resources by any user, with
any device, from any location at any
time
Encrypt to meet regulatory and
security requirements
Simplicity and business agility
UADP - Unified Access Data Plane ASIC 2 SGT - Security Group Tag 3 SDN - Software Defined Networking
OnePK - Open Network Environment Platform Kit 5 Universal Power over Ethernet 6 VSS – Virtual Switching System
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