Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 8L-E

Get Industry-Leading Performance for Modular Access

Get maximum investment protection in modular access. The Supervisor 8L-E is based on our best-selling Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 8-E architecture, and delivers the same features for lower scale deployments. It offers twice the number of Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) and SFP Plus (SFP+) uplinks and a more powerful CPU than the Supervisor 7L-E.

Features and Capabilities

Simplicity – includes:

• APIC-EM and Cisco Prime integration
• Plug and play
• Auto-interface templates
• Cisco Service Discovery Gateway
• Campus fabric*

Maximum Resiliency

• Redundant power supplies and fan trays
• Cisco nonstop forwarding (NSF) and stateful switchover (SSO)
• In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) support
• Virtual Switching System (VSS)

Advanced Security

• Includes MACSec
• Cisco TrustSec support on all uplinks and line card ports

Energy Efficiency

• Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
• Cisco EnergyWise technology manages the network, Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+), and PCs

Troubleshooting

• Includes Flexible NetFlow
• Embedded Wireshark on all ports
• Application Visibility and Control*

* Campus fabric and Cisco Application Visibility and Control will be supported in a future IOS XE release.

Specifications at a Glance

• Up to 560 Gbps wired switching capacity; non-blocking 48 Gbps per slot
• 4 non-blocking 10-GE uplinks with Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices to support next-generation protocols
• Support for Universal Power over Ethernet (UPOE; 60 Watts) and PoE Plus (30 Watts) capabilities on all line-card slots
• Quad CPU cores at 1.8 GHz, which offers improved control-plane processing over the Catalyst 4500 Supervisor 7L-E
• Supports up to 10-Gbps speeds and 60-Watt UPOE capability per port with Cisco MultiGigabit Ethernet technology