- Up to 7 to 10 years of investment protection through backward and forward compatibility
- 520 Gbps system performance with 48 Gbps per slot to every line-card slot
- Future-proof investment with dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplink or four Gigabit Ethernet uplinks
- Cisco Universal Power over Ethernet (UPOE) for unprecedented convergence to IP network infrastructure
- Application visibility through FNF
- Energy efficiency with support for 802.3az Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE)-capable line cards
- First and only modular switch with 8 bidirectional line-rate SPAN/RSPAN sessions
The Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 7L-E is an enterprise-class borderless campus access and price/performance aggregation supervisor engine designed to provide 520 Gbps per system with E-Series chassis. The Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 7L-E provides unprecedented performance with borderless services such as Flexible NetFlow (FNF) and hosted third-party applications.
The Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 7L-E builds on the widely deployed line of Cisco Catalyst 4500 supervisor engines and enhances its predecessors to provide nonblocking 48 Gbps per slot bandwidth with Flexible NetFlow for optimized application visibility.