Performance and capability
- Up to 928 Gbps wired switching capacity with 250 Mpps of throughput
- Up to 20 Gigabits of wireless termination capacity for a wireless controller-less design. Support for up to 50 access points and 2000 wireless clients on each switching entity (software roadmap)
- Support of 250 access points and 4000 wireless clients in wireless controller-less deployments with multiple Catalyst 4500E systems forming a wireless domain (software roadmap)
- Up to eight nonblocking 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks (Small Form-Factor Pluggable Plus [SFP+])
- SFP support on uplinks to offer flexibility for up to eight Gigabit Ethernet ports
- 384 ports of nonblocking 10/100/1000
- Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+; 30 W) capabilities on all ports in a line card simultaneously
- Cisco Universal PoE (UPOE; 60 W) capabilities on all line card slots
- Energy Efficient Ethernet (IEEE 802.3az)
- 200 ports of nonblocking Gigabit Ethernet SFP (eight uplinks ports plus 192 line card ports)
- 104 ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ (eight uplinks ports plus 96 line card ports)
- Up to 128,000 Flexible Netflow (FNF) entries in hardware
- Hardware ready to support flexible storage options using USB port
- Secure Digital (SD) card support for flexible storage options
- 256,000 routing entries for high-end campus access and aggregation deployments
- IPv6 support in hardware, providing wire-rate forwarding for IPv6 networks
- Dual stack support for IPv4/IPv6 and Dynamic hardware forwarding-table allocations for ease of IPv4-to-IPv6 migration
- Scalable routing (IPv4, IPv6, and multicast) tables and Layer 2 tables.
- Scalable and dynamic allocation of access-control-list (ACL) and quality-of-service (QoS) entries to use eight queues per port and comprehensive security policies per port
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