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Catalyst 4500 Series Installation Guide
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Chapter 1 Product Overview
Switch Features
Table 1-1 Features of the Catalyst 4503 Switch
Feature Description
Ethernet speeds • Ethernet (10BASE-T) interface to workstations and repeaters
• Fast Ethernet (100BASE-T) interface to workstations, servers, switches,
and routers
Note Autonegotiation of link speed on each 10/100 port allows migration to
100BASE-T from a 10BASE-T installed base.
• Gigabit Ethernet (1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-X) interfaces for
backbone interconnection of high-performance switches and routers
Standard equipment • Three-slot modular chassis with one slot reserved for a supervisor engine
and two slots for switching modules
• One hot-swappable fan assembly
Standard management
and support
• Supports Layer 2 forwarding with an aggregate forwarding rate of
18 Mpps
• Supports 32,768 MAC addresses per system
• Supports up to 4,096 VLANs with IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging on all
ports and VTP
1
• Supports port aggregation using PAgP
2
for 100-Mbps and 1000-Mbps
EtherChannel
Embedded
management
• Full SNMP implementation, including entity-MIB, all relevant standard
MIBs, and all relevant Cisco MIBs
• The first four RMON groups (Ethernet statistics, Alarms, Events, and
History) are on a per-port basis without an optional RMON processing
module
• Provides SPAN
3
, which allows you to redirect traffic from any port or
VLAN to a SPAN destination port
• Performance management information
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