Chapter 1 Product Overview
System Architecture
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• Cisco Group Management Protocol support standards-based and Cisco
technology-enhanced efficient multimedia networking.
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
• CiscoWorks, which can manage critical network characteristics such as
availability, responsiveness, resilience, and security.
• Cisco NetFlow Services. The Cisco NetFlow Services Card for the Supervisor
Engine IV and V support statistics capture in hardware for flow-based and
VLAN-based statistics monitoring. This data can be exported, collected, and
analyzed for virus detection and mitigation, network-traffic accounting,
usage-based network billing, network planning, network monitoring, and
data-mining capabilities. Cisco NetFlow Services is integral to the Supervisor
Engine V-10GE.
Switching Traffic Flow
Figure 1-23 shows switching traffic flow through the system.
