Cisco Supervisor Engine 7L-E network switch module

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 builds on the success of its predecessor, the Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 6L-E, and provides unprecedented performance with borderless services such as Flexible NetFlow (FNF) and hosted third-party applications.

The Supervisor Engine 7L-E offers key innovations including

- 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 uplinks (Small Form-Factor Pluggable Plus [SFP+] optics) or four Gigabit Ethernet uplinks (SFP optics)
- Cisco Universal Power over Ethernet (UPOE) for unprecedented convergence to IP network infrastructure
- Application visibility through FNF
- Cisco IOS® XE Software, which provides the ability to host third-party applications
- Energy efficiency with support for 802.3az Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE)-capable line cards
- Industry-leading resiliency through In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU)
- First and only modular switch with 8 bidirectional line-rate Switched Port Analyzer/Remote SPAN (SPAN/RSPAN) sessions