WS-C4500X-16SFP+

WS-C4500X-16SFP+ is a Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switch. It is a fixed aggregation switch that delivers best-in-class scalability, simplified network virtualization, and integrated network services for space-constrained environments in campus networks.

WS-C4500X-16SFP+ Specification

Expansion Module (Optional) 8×10 GE SFP+/SFP – C4KX-NM-8SFP+
Management Port 10/100/1000 Base-T
USB Port Type A (storage and boot) up-to 4 GB
Dual Power Supply Yes
Field Replaceable Fans Yes (5 fans)
Fan Redundancy No performance impact with single fan failure
System Throughput Up to 800 Gbps
IPv4 Routing in Hardware Up to 250 Mpps
IPv6 Routing in Hardware Up to 125 Mpps
L2 Bridging in Hardware Up to 250 Mpps
Media Access Control (MAC) Entries 55K
Forwarding Entries 16×10 GE Port Base SKU: IPv4: 64K, IPv6: 32K
Flexible Netflow Entries 128K
Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN), Remote Switched Port Analyzer (RSPAN) 8 line rate bidirectional sessions (ingress and egress)
Total VLANs 4094
Total Switched Virtual Interfaces (SVIs) 4094
IGMP groups 32K
Multicast routes 16×10 GE Port Base SKU: IPv4: 24K, IPv6: 12K
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Snooping Entries 12K (DHCP snooping bindings)
ARP Entries 47K
Spanning Tree Protocol Instances 10K
Jumbo Frame Support for Bridged and Routed Packets Up to 9216 bytes
High Availability Solution Virtual Switching System (VSS)
Number of stackable switches in VSS Up to 2
VSS Throughput Up to 1.6 Tbps
Virtual Switch Link 1GE or 10GE
Max number of Virtual Switch Links 8
In-Service Software Upgrade Across the switches
Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover Across the switches
Onboard Memory (SRAM DDR-II) 4 GB
Port Buffers 32-MB Shared Memory
CPU Dual Core 1.5 GHz
NVRAM 2 GB
Optional External Memory (SD Card) 2 GB
Port Queues 8 Queues/Port
CPU Queues 64
QoS Entries 128K (64K ingress and 64K in egress) Shared with ACL
Aggregate Rate-Limiting Ingress port or VLAN and egress VLAN or Layer 3 port
Rate-Limiting Level Types Committed Information Rate (CIR), Peak Information Rate (PIR)
Aggregate Traffic Rate-Limiting Policers (1K=1024) 16K
Flow-Based Rate-Limiting Method; Number of Rates Supported using flow-records in the classification criteria and policing action
Qos Policy Enforcement Per Port or Per Vlan or Per Port, Per VLAN Granularity
Class of Service (CoS) Yes
Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) Yes
Port Security Yes
IEEE 802.1x and 802.1x Extensions Yes
VLAN, Router, and Port ACLs Yes
Security ACL Entries (1K=1024) 128K (64K ingress and 64K in egress) Shared with QoS
Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) Check in Hardware Yes
CPU Rate Limiters (DoS Protection) Includes Control Plane Policing Yes
Private VLANs Yes
Micro Flow Policer Yes. Supported using flow records in the class-map
CPU HW Rate Limiters by Packet Per Second (pps) and Bit Rate Policers (bps) Supported in hardware control-plane policing (CoPP)
Control Plane Policing (CoPP) for Multicast Yes
ACL Labels Yes