Cisco Catalyst WS-C4507R+E Full English Product Description

1. Short Sales Title

2. Official Product Overview

Core Differentiators vs WS-C4507R-E

1. Fixed full 48 Gbps per all line card slots: The R+E variant eliminates dynamic bandwidth negotiation; every line card slot runs native 48 Gbps full-duplex regardless of inserted module, delivering consistent maximum throughput for high-density 10G and UPOE deploymentsCisco.
2. Upgraded power distribution traces to support maximum 1500W PoE per individual line card slot, fully enabling high-power ePoE (90W) line cards without bandwidth/power bottlenecksCisco.
3. Optimized thermal and backplane signal integrity for long-term 48Gbps continuous operation, certified for full Supervisor 8-E high-performance operation.
4. Unified VSS (Virtual Switching System) stackability with other R+E redundant chassis for multi-chassis core pooling.

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: Plus Enhanced top-tier E-series chassis; fixed native 48Gbps per line card slot, upgraded power/thermal hardware for full UPOE/ePoE high-power line card support

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, hardwired for permanent 48 Gbps full-duplex bandwidth each
2. Slot 3: Primary dedicated supervisor engine slot
3. Slot 4: Secondary redundant supervisor engine slot (1+1 redundancy, SSO/NSF/ISSU fully functional with identical paired E-series supervisors)
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 full IPv6 forwarding, UPOE power scheduling, VSS multi-chassis virtual switching, and complete 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 (auto-downspeed to 6Gbps slot bandwidth when inserted)
2. E-series high-speed native 48Gbps line cards: High-density 1G/10G SFP+ fiber, Cisco UPOE (60W per port), ePoE (90W per port) high-power access modules; each slot supports up to 1500W PoE power budget for maximum high-density unified communications deploymentsCisco

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: Fixed native 48 Gbps full-duplex per slot (no dynamic speed reduction for E-series line cards; core upgrade over WS-C4507R-E auto-sense design)Cisco
• Total chassis non-blocking switching capacity: Up to 240 Gbps full-duplex CenterFlex 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)
• 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 PSUCisco
• 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
• Per-slot maximum PoE load: 1500W (hardware upgraded power traces unique to R+E chassis)
• 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 supplies
• Real-time monitoring: Fan speed, internal temperature, and hardware fault alerts via front panel LEDs, console logging, and SNMP traps; optimized cooling for sustained 48Gbps slot throughput

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: 1,064,279 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)
• VSS Virtual Switching System multi-chassis pooling support (unique high-scale core feature)

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
• Upgraded power distribution to sustain full 1500W PoE load per single line card slot without thermal throttling

5. High Availability Capabilities (Core Differentiators vs Non-R & Mid-Tier R-E Chassis)

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. Permanent 48Gbps fixed slot bandwidth on all line card slots; no throughput degradation when mixing high-speed E-series modules.
3. Dual hot-swappable redundant AC/DC power supplies (1+1 power failover protection).
4. Full OIR Online Insertion and Removal support for fan tray, line cards, and power supplies; live FRU replacement without chassis shutdown.
5. Variable-speed smart fan tray with fault detection and real-time thermal monitoring optimized for continuous 48Gbps operation.
6. VSS multi-chassis virtual switching capability to combine two WS-C4507R+E chassis into a single logical core switch for large campus backbone deployments.

6. Typical Deployment Scenarios

1. Enterprise Multi-Building Campus Core Switch

   Dual redundant supervisors eliminate single point of failure for enterprise-wide campus backbone; five full 48Gbps line card slots aggregate dozens of building distribution switches via 10GE fiber trunks, supporting VSS virtual core pooling, unified communications, IPTV and large-scale Wi-Fi mobility domains.
2. Large Multi-Floor Building High-Density Distribution Aggregation

   Full UPOE/ePoE high-power line cards support multi-story office voice/data/4K surveillance deployments; fixed 48Gbps slot bandwidth eliminates throughput bottlenecks for dense AP pools, dual supervisor redundancy guarantees zero downtime for critical business IP telephony systems.
3. Large Regional Mission-Critical Branch Office Core Switch

   Financial, healthcare and government remote branches require complete supervisor + power redundancy to avoid costly site outages; native high PoE power budget supports medical thin clients, security cameras and high-density Wi-Fi 6 deployments with wire-speed Layer 3 inter-VLAN routing.
4. Medium Enterprise Data Center Leaf/Aggregation Switch

   E-series high-speed 10G fiber line cards connect server racks and storage arrays; 10GE supervisor uplinks trunk to spine-layer switches, delivering consistent 48Gbps wire-speed Layer 3 leaf-spine forwarding with redundant supervisor failover for business-critical data workloads.
5. Legacy Catalyst 4500 High-Availability Infrastructure Upgrade

   Drop-in performance upgrade replacement for WS-C4507R-E and classic WS-C4507R redundant chassis; backward compatible with existing classic PoE line cards while unlocking permanent 48Gbps slot throughput, full ePoE support and VSS multi-chassis virtual switching for network lifecycle extension.

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, Cisco DNA/SDNA software license kits

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