Chapter 1 Product Overview
Supervisor Engines
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Supervisor Engines
The following supervisor engines are available for the Catalyst 4500 series
switches:
• Supervisor Engine II (WS-X4013) (Figure 1-5)
• Supervisor Engine II-Plus (WS-X4013+) (Figure 1-6)
• Supervisor Engine II-Plus TS (WS-X4013+TS) (Figure 1-7)
• Supervisor Engine II-Plus 10GE (WS-X4013+10GE) (Figure 1-8)
• Supervisor Engine III (WS-X4014) (Figure 1-9)
• Supervisor Engine IV (WS-X4515) (Figure 1-10)
• Supervisor Engine V (WS-X4516) (Figure 1-11)
• Supervisor Engine V-10GE (WS-X4516-10GE) (Figure 1-12)
The Catalyst 4500 series supervisor engines have the following features:
Table 1-5 Supervisor Engine Features
Feature Description
Data path and control Available on all network interfaces
Management functions Interface monitoring
Environmental status
SNMP and console/Telnet interface
MAC addresses supported 32,768 per system (Cisco IOS only)
VLANS Up to 4,096 VLANs with IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging on all ports and
VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)
Port aggregation PAgP
1
for 100-Mbps and 1000-Mbps EtherChannel
SNMP Full implementation, including entity-MIB, all relevant standard MIBs,
and all relevant Cisco MIBs
RMON The first four groups (Ethernet statistics, Alarms, Events, and History)
are on a per-port basis without an optional RMON processing module
SPAN
2
Supported, which allows you to redirect traffic from any port or VLAN
to a SPAN destination port
Performance management Information provided
