Re: Catalyst cards and supervisors.




AM wrote:
I'm choosing the line cards for a Catalyst 4506.
I want to install a non powered 48 ports module and 2 cards with PoE.
Looking at the card WS-X4548-GB-RJ45 Cisco says

"Bandwidth is allocated across six 8-port groups, providing 1 Gbps per port group"

Each 4506 linecard has 6 x 1GB links to the switch fabric.
So a 48 port card has ports 1 - 8 hard wired to one link etc.
The only exception is the SE whose two ports each have 1G to the
backplane
and are uncontended.

Moreover, I saw the card

WS-X4248-FE-SFP= (Catalyst 4500 48-Port 100BASE-X (SFPs Optional))

What does the 100BASE-X stand for? I haven't understood whether SFP can accept both Ethernet plugs and SFP plugs.
100 M Ethernet [One Hundred]. You don't want it I guess.

SFP sockets were discussed by me recently here. "anybody43".

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