Predictable performance, Comprehensive management – Cisco 4948 Series User Manual
Page 5

© 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Important notices, privacy statements, and trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. can be found on cisco.com.
Page 5 of 16
•
Support for 512 policers on ingress and 512 policers on egress configured as aggregate or individual
•
Shaping and sharing output queue management
•
Dynamic Buffer Limiting (DBL): Advanced congestion avoidance
•
No performance penalty for granular QoS functions
Predictable Performance
•
96 Gbps switching fabric
•
Layer 2 hardware forwarding at 72 Mpps
•
Layer 3 hardware-based IP Cisco Express Forwarding routing at 72 Mpps
•
Layer 4 TCP or User Datagram Protocol (UDP) hardware-based filtering at 72 Mpps
•
No performance penalty with advanced Layer 3 and 4 services enabled
•
Software-based learning at a sustained rate of 500 hosts per second
•
Support for 32,768 MAC addresses
•
Support for 32,000 entries in routing table (shared between unicast and multicast)
•
Support for 512 ingress policers and 512 egress policers
•
Support for 32,000 ACL and QoS entries
•
Scalability to 2048 virtual ports (VLAN port instances)
•
Scalability to 8000 IGMP snooping entries
•
Scalability to 1500 STP instances
•
Bandwidth aggregation up to 16 Gbps through Cisco Gigabit EtherChannel technology
•
Hardware-based wire-speed multicast management
•
Hardware-based wire-speed ACLs
Comprehensive Management
•
Manageable through CiscoWorks Windows network-management software on a per-port and per-switch basis, providing a common management
interface for Cisco routers, switches, and hubs
•
Manageable through Cisco Network Assistant
•
SNMPv1, v2, and v3 instrumentation, delivering comprehensive in-band management
•
Command-line interface (CLI)-based management console to provide detailed out-of-band management
•
Remote Monitoring (RMON) software agent to support four RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events) for enhanced traffic
management, monitoring, and analysis
•
Support for all nine RMON groups through the use of a Cisco SwitchProbe
®
analyzer (Switched Port Analyzer [SPAN]) port, which permits
traffic monitoring of a single port, a group of ports, or the entire switch from a single network analyzer or RMON probe
•
Analysis support, including ingress port, egress port, and VLAN SPAN
•
Layer 2 traceroute
•
Remote SPAN (RSPAN)
•
Smartports macros
•
SPAN ACL filtering
•
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client autoconfiguration
•
IfIndex persistence
•
HTTPS
•
Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR)
•
MAC Address Notification