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Cisco ME 4924-10GE Ethernet Switch Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter 1 Product Overview
Features
• Serial console management port using an RJ-45 interface
• A removable automatic variable speed fan tray for low noise operation at room temperature
• 256-MB SDRAM (fixed)
• 64-MB embedded Flash memory
• 48 Gbps switching capacity at the ports, 102 million packets-per-second actual forwarding rate
• EtherChannel at 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps
• Hardware-based access lists
• Storm control in hardware
Software Features
This switch uses software developed for Catalyst 4500 series switches. The Cisco ME 4924-10GE
software provides:
• Support for 55,000 MAC addresses for Layer 2 switching
• Support for 4,096 VLANs and 4,096 VLAN IDs
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IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging on all ports
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Cisco Inter Switch Link (ISL) tagging on all ports
• 64,000 multicast forwarding entries and 16,000 unicast forwarding entries
• 1022 ingress policers and 1022 egress policers
• 32,000 ingress Security ACEs and 32,000 egress Security ACEs
• Support for port aggregation using Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP) for Gigabit EtherChannel
• Catalyst 4500 series management software features include the following:
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Command-line interface (CLI) and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) interfaces
consistent with the Catalyst 4500 series switches
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Compatible development of new features with the Catalyst 4500 series switches
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Support for out-of-band management over serial lines through a terminal attached to the console
interface
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Support for in-band management through any switch port through SNMP, Telnet client, and
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
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Remote Monitoring (RMON)
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Support for standard Layer 2 features: 802.1D Spanning Tree, Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP),
VTP version 2 with pruning extensions, and Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP) client
• Embedded management features include the following:
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Full SNMP instrumentation including entity-Management Information Base (MIB), all relevant
standard MIBs, and all relevant Cisco MIBs
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Support for the first four RMON groups (Ethernet Statistics, Alarms, Events, and History) on a
per-port basis without the need for an optional RMON processing module
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Performance management information
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Embedded CiscoView support
