Cisco Catalyst WS-C4507R-E Full English Product Description

1. Short Sales Title

2. Official Product Overview

1. Adopts CenterFlex ASIC scalable switching fabric, supporting dynamic auto-negotiable 6/24/48 Gbps full-duplex bandwidth per line card slot (classic WS-C4507R locks to fixed 6 Gbps only).
2. Only compatible with modern E-series Supervisor 6-E/7-E/8-E; legacy Supervisor II/IV/V cannot operate in this chassisCisco.
3. Supports high-power E-series line cards with UPOE (60W) / ePoE (90W) alongside backward compatibility with classic 6Gbps PoE/PoE+ copper/fiber modules, protecting existing hardware investments during phased upgrades.
4. Optimized for mission-critical networks requiring full hardware resiliency: dual redundant supervisors deliver SSO Stateful Switchover, NSF Nonstop Forwarding, and ISSU In-Service Software Upgrade to eliminate single supervisor failure points.

Model Suffix Breakdown

• WS-C: Cisco Catalyst LAN Switch Platform Identifier
• 4507: Catalyst 4500 Series, total 7 modular slot chassis
• R: Redundant design with dual dedicated supervisor slots for 1+1 supervisor failover
• -E: Enhanced E-series chassis with CenterFlex scalable fabric, 48Gbps max slot bandwidth, native UPOE/ePoE high-power PoE support, exclusive E-series supervisor compatibility

Chassis Slot Layout Definition (Top to Bottom Slots 1–7)

1. Slot 1, Slot 2, Slot 5, Slot 6, Slot 7: Five independent hot-swappable line card expansion slots, auto-adjust bandwidth (6/24/48 Gbps) based on installed line card generation
2. Slot 3: Primary supervisor engine dedicated slot
3. Slot 4: Secondary redundant supervisor engine dedicated slot (1+1 redundancy, SSO/NSF/ISSU fully supported when matching E-series supervisors deployed)Cisco
4. Rear compartment: Dual independent hot-swappable power supply bays supporting 1+1 N+1 power redundancy
5. Front lower bay: Single integrated variable-speed hot-swappable fan tray

Supported Supervisor Engines

• Supervisor Engine 6-E, 6L-E
• Supervisor Engine 7-E, 7L-E
• Supervisor Engine 8-E, 8L-E
  All E-series supervisors run Cisco IOS 12.2(54)SG+ / IOS XE images with CenterFlex ASICs, hardware-accelerated IPv6 forwarding, full UPOE power scheduling, VSS virtual switching, and redundant supervisor high-availability feature stack.

Supported Line Card Modules (Dual Forward & Backward Compatibility)

1. Classic 6 Gbps legacy line cards: 24/48-port 1G copper non-PoE / IEEE 802.3af PoE / 802.3at PoE+, SFP Gigabit fiber uplink modules
2. E-series high-speed scalable line cards: High-density 1G/10G SFP+ fiber, Cisco UPOE (60W per port), ePoE (90W per port) high-power access modules; maximum 1500W PoE power budget per single line card slotgreencode....

3. Hardware & Physical Specifications

Core Backplane & Switching Fabric

• Total modular slots: 7 (2 dedicated redundant supervisor slots, 5 line card expansion slots)
• Per-line-card slot bandwidth: Dynamic auto-sensing 6 / 24 / 48 Gbps full-duplex per slot (CenterFlex enhancement over fixed 6Gbps classic WS-C4507R)
• Total chassis non-blocking switching capacity: Up to 240 Gbps full-duplex fabric
• Switching architecture: Centralized non-blocking fabric managed by supervisor CenterFlex ASIC
• Maximum port density: Up to 240×1G copper ports via five 48-port line cards; up to 60×1G/10G SFP/SFP+ fiber ports
• MAC address table capacity: Up to 131,072 MAC address entries (E-supervisor upgraded capacity vs classic supervisors)
• TCAM flow table: Up to 128,000 hardware ACL/QoS/security flow entries
• Jumbo frame support: Up to 9198 bytes on all copper and fiber interfaces

Power System

• Power supply bays: 2 hot-swappable redundant slots (1+1 power failover supported)
• Supported PSU variants: AC 1000W data-only, AC 1400W non-PoE, PoE-capable ACV 1300W / 2800W / 4200W / 6000W / 9000W, DC 1400W triple-input telecom PSU
• Input voltage range: AC 100–240V 50/60Hz; DC –48V standard telecom negative power
• Maximum total chassis PoE budget: Up to 5400W with dual 6000W ACV PoE power supplies
• Hot-swap capability: Power supplies can be replaced live without chassis power outage

Cooling System

• Fan tray: Single integrated variable-speed hot-swappable fan assembly factory pre-installed
• Airflow direction: Right-to-left airflow across supervisor/line card modules; front-to-back airflow through power suppliesCisco
• Real-time monitoring: Fan speed, internal temperature, and hardware fault alerts via front panel LEDs, console logging, and SNMP traps

Physical & Environmental Parameters

• Rack form factor: 11 RU standard 19-inch rack mount; optional 23-inch rack mounting brackets included
• Dimensions (H × W × D): 48.74 cm × 43.97 cm × 31.70 cm (19.19 × 17.31 × 12.50 inches)Cisco
• Weight: 20.19 kg (44.5 lbs) bare chassis with fan tray; maximum fully loaded weight 45.4 kg (100 lbs) with dual PSUs, dual supervisors and full line card slots populated
• Operating temperature: 0°C to 40°C (32°F–104°F); operating altitude -60m up to 3000m
• Storage temperature: -40°C to 75°C (-40°F–167°F)
• Relative humidity: 10%–90% non-condensing
• Compliance Certifications: FCC Class A, UL 60950, CE, VCCI Class A, NEBS Level 3, RoHS compliant
• MTBF: 1,052,187 hours under standard enterprise operating environments

Supervisor Out-of-Band Management Interfaces (Dual Supervisors Feature Identical Ports)

• RJ45 RS232 serial console port
• Mini USB console port on Supervisor 7-E / 8-E models
• Dedicated out-of-band 10/100BASE-T Ethernet management port
• Dual SFP / SFP+ uplink slots (1G / 10GE uplinks dependent on supervisor generation)
• Front panel LED bank: System, fan, power, module, uplink, fault, UID beacon status indicators

4. Full Layer 2 & Layer 3 IOS Feature Set

Layer 2 Switching Features

• IEEE 802.1D STP, 802.1w Rapid STP, 802.1s MSTP
• Maximum 4096 VLANs, 802.1Q trunking + legacy ISL trunk encapsulation
• Private VLAN, Q-in-Q VLAN stacking for multi-tenant service segmentation
• Port security, static/dynamic secure MAC address learning, MAC filtering
• 802.3ad LACP static EtherChannel link aggregation (max 8 physical ports per bundle)
• Broadcast/multicast/unicast storm suppression
• IGMPv1/v2/v3 snooping, CGMP for VoIP and IPTV multicast traffic optimization
• Voice VLAN auto-detection for Cisco IP phones
• 802.3x full-duplex flow control
• SPAN local port mirroring, RSPAN remote traffic analysis for monitoring

Layer 3 Routing & Multicast Features (IP Base / IP Services IOS Images)

• Static IP routing, RIP v1/v2, full multi-area OSPF, full EIGRP, BGPv4/BGPv6 inter-domain routing
• Wire-speed hardware SVI inter-VLAN routing
• Native hardware-accelerated IPv4 / IPv6 dual-stack forwarding
• Full PIM-SM / PIM-DM / PIM-SSM multicast routing, MSDP support
• ECMP equal-cost multi-path load balancing across multiple uplinks
• Policy-Based Routing (PBR) available with IP Services license
• VRF-Lite multi-tenancy segmentation (Supervisor 7-E / 8-E only)

Advanced MQC QoS & Traffic Prioritization

• Hierarchical Modular QoS Command-Line (MQC) policy framework
• 8 hardware priority queues per physical port, bidirectional 802.1p CoS / DSCP mapping
• Ingress traffic policing, egress shaping, packet marking and remarking
• Pre-built Auto-QoS templates optimized for VoIP, video conferencing, IP surveillance and unified communications
• Dedicated expedite voice priority queue for PoE IP phone traffic

Enterprise Security Suite

• IEEE 802.1X port-based NAC authentication, integrated RADIUS/TACACS+ AAA identity management
• DHCP Snooping, Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI), IP Source Guard, uRPF anti-spoofing protection
• Hardware accelerated Port ACL, VLAN ACL (VACL), Route ACL traffic filtering
• IEEE 802.1AE MACsec link encryption on 10GE supervisor uplink ports
• SSHv2 encrypted CLI management, SNMPv3 secure monitoring, encrypted configuration files
• Control Plane Policing (CoPP) to protect supervisor CPU from DDoS attacks
• Rogue AP detection, private VLAN host isolation

Multi-Standard High-Power PoE Power Management

• Full support for IEEE 802.3af PoE (15.4W), 802.3at PoE+ (30W), Cisco UPOE (60W), ePoE (90W) E-series line cards
• Per-port configurable power priority scheduling to protect critical voice, video and wireless endpoints during power budget shortages
• Real-time chassis-wide PoE power budget monitoring, automatic power throttling for over-subscription prevention
• Cisco EnergyWise power efficiency management to reduce idle power consumption for inactive PoE devices

5. High Availability Capabilities (Core Differentiator vs Non-R Single-Supervisor Chassis & Classic WS-C4507R)

1. Dual Redundant E-Series Supervisor Engines (1+1 Resiliency)
   Deploy matching E-series supervisors in slots 3 & 4 to enable SSO Stateful Switchover, NSF Nonstop Forwarding, and ISSU In-Service Software Upgrade; sub-minute failover preserves full Layer 2/Layer 3 forwarding tables with zero packet loss for business-critical traffic.
2. Dual hot-swappable redundant AC/DC power supplies (1+1 power failover protection).
3. Full OIR Online Insertion and Removal support for fan tray, line cards, and power supplies; live FRU replacement without chassis shutdown.
4. Variable-speed smart fan tray with fault detection and real-time thermal monitoring for proactive maintenance alerts.
5. CenterFlex fabric isolation for dual supervisor traffic paths to avoid single fabric failure risks (enhanced over classic WS-C4507R fixed fabric modules).

6. Typical Deployment Scenarios

1. Enterprise Campus Core Switch

   Dual redundant supervisors eliminate single point of failure for multi-building campus backbone; five line card slots aggregate dozens of building distribution switches via 10GE fiber trunks, consolidating unified communications, IPTV and surveillance traffic for entire campus domains.
2. Large Multi-Floor Building Distribution Aggregation

   High port density supports full UPOE access lines for multi-story office voice/data/Wi-Fi deployments; supervisor 10GE uplinks trunk to campus core routers, with dual supervisor redundancy guaranteeing zero downtime for critical business IP telephony and video systems.
3. Large Regional Branch Office Core Switch

   Mission-critical remote branch networks require full supervisor + power redundancy to avoid costly site outages, integrating wire-speed Layer 3 inter-VLAN routing, full UPOE high-power delivery, and fiber WAN uplink aggregation.
4. Medium SMB Data Center Aggregation / Leaf Switch

   E-series high-speed fiber line cards connect server racks and storage arrays; 10GE supervisor uplinks trunk to spine-layer switches, delivering wire-speed Layer 3 leaf-spine forwarding with redundant supervisor failover for business-critical data workloads.
5. Legacy Catalyst 4500 Redundant Infrastructure Upgrade

   Drop-in replacement for classic WS-C4507R non-E redundant chassis; backward compatible with existing classic PoE line cards while enabling seamless upgrade to modern E-series high-speed/UPOE modules to extend network hardware lifecycle with improved fabric bandwidth and feature support.

7. Standard Package Contents

Items Sold Separately (Not Included)

• E-series Supervisor Engine (6-E / 7-E / 8-E variants, minimum two identical units for full redundancy)
• AC / DC redundant power supply units (PoE or data-only models)
• Classic or E-series Gigabit copper/fiber PoE/PoE+/UPOE/ePoE line cards
• SFP / SFP+ / XFP optical transceivers for supervisor uplink ports
• Console cable, cable management accessories, DNA/SDNA software license kits

Short Commercial Catalog Version (For Quotation & Datasheet Use)