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Data Sheet
Cisco Catalyst 4000/4500 Series Gigabit Ethernet Modules
Overview
The Cisco Catalyst
®
4000/4500 series of scalable, modular, high-density, switches
deliver high performance, integrated Layer 2, 3 and 4 switching with intelligent
services, for network control and resiliency. These switches offer a rich variety of
1000-Mbps Gigabit Ethernet modules that include both fiber, and copper, interfaces
for Gigabit server and desktop Enterprise switching solutions and Service Provider
metropolitan Ethernet networks. Gigabit Ethernet switching modules include
cost-effective, high-performance 1000BASE-X Gigabit Interface Converter
(GBIC)-based Gigabit Ethernet line cards and the highest density 48-port 10/100/
1000BASE-T triple speed auto-sensing, auto-negotiating Gigabit Ethernet line card
and system in the industry.
Product Description
Gigabit-over-Copper Modules
The Cisco Catalyst
®
4000/4500 Series
offers a rich variety of gigabit-over-copper
solutions for wiring closets and server
farms, enabling high-density gigabit
connectivity to the desktop and servers
over Category 5 copper cabling. The
two line card options for the Cisco
Catalyst
®
4000/4500 Series, shown below,
include the 48-port 10/100/1000BASE-T
(WS-X4448-GB-RJ45), and the 24-port
10/100/1000BASE-T
(WS-X4424-GB-RJ45) module.
Figure 1
48-Port Line Card (WS-X4448-GB-RJ45)
Figure 2
24-Port Line Card (WS-X4424-GB-RJ45)
48-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T Line
Card (WS-X4448-GB-RJ45)
The Cisco Catalyst 4000/4500 Series
48-port 10/100/1000BASE-T line card
extends Cisco’s leadership in the modular
switched Ethernet market, providing the
industry’s highest density auto-negotiating
Gigabit Ethernet from the network edge
directly to desktop computers. This line
card provides 48 RJ-45 ports with triple
speed auto-sensing and auto-negotiating
technology, enabling all ports to be used at
10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, or 1000 Mbps up to
100 meters over Category 5 copper
cabling for optimum flexibility and
investment protection. This module
provides wiring closet investment
protection by allowing Fast Ethernet
desktops today to migrate to Gigabit
Ethernet in the future without replacing

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the switch line cards. The 48 ports can burst to Gigabit Ethernet
line rate and share 12 Gbps of capacity (6 Gbps full-duplex) into
the switching fabric. The amount of oversubscription can be
controlled by varying the number of ports used at 1000 Mbps. All
ports can utilize Gigabit EtherChannel or IEEE 802.3ad for
high-speed interconnection applications. All ports use the standard
IEEE 802.1x flow control (PAUSE frame) mechanism to control
Gigabit Ethernet host traffic.
24-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T Line Card
(WS-X4424-GB-RJ45)
The Cisco Catalyst 4000/4500 Series 24-port 10/100/1000BASE-T
line card provides 24 RJ-45 ports with triple speed auto-sensing
and auto-negotiating technology, enabling all ports to be used at
10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, or 1000 Mbps up to 100 meters over
Category 5 copper cabling. This module provides wiring closet
investment protection by allowing Fast Ethernet desktops today to
migrate to Gigabit Ethernet in the future without replacing the
switch line cards. The 24 ports can burst to Gigabit Ethernet line
rate and share 12 Gbps of capacity (6 Gbps full-duplex) into the
switching fabric. The amount of oversubscription can be
controlled by varying the number of ports used at 1000 Mbps. All
ports can utilize Gigabit EtherChannel or IEEE 802.3ad for
high-speed interconnection applications. All ports use the standard
IEEE 802.1x flow control (PAUSE frame) mechanism to control
Gigabit Ethernet host traffic.
Gigabit-over-Fiber GBIC-Enabled Modules
The Cisco Catalyst 4000/4500 Series offers a rich variety of
GBIC-enabled gigabit-over-fiber solutions for high-performance
Gigabit Ethernet uplinks and server farm connectivity. The three
GBIC-enabled gigabit line card options for the Cisco Catalyst
4000 Series, shown below, include the 6-port 1000BASE-X
(WS-X4306-GB), the 18-port 1000BASE-X (WS-X4418-GB), and
the 48-port 1000-BASE-LX module.
Figure 3
6-Port Line Card
Figure 4
18-Port Line Card
Figure 5
48 port 1000-BASELX Line Card
Six-Port GBIC-Enabled Gigabit Ethernet Line Card
(WS-X4306-GB)
The Cisco Catalyst 4000/4500 Series six-port Gigabit Ethernet line
card provides six ports of dedicated 1000BASE-X Gigabit
Ethernet uplinks for high-speed backbone, switch-to-switch
applications or small server-farm applications. It uses the versatile
GBIC technology so intrabuilding multimode connections can be
intermixed with long-distance, campus, single-mode connections.
All ports can utilize Gigabit EtherChannel or IEEE 802.3ad for
high-speed interconnection applications.
18-Port GBIC-Enabled Gigabit Ethernet Line Card
(WS-X4418-GB)
The Cisco Catalyst 4000/4500 Series 18-port Gigabit Ethernet line
card provides two ports of dedicated 1000BASE-X GBIC-based
Gigabit Ethernet uplinks, as well as up to 16 GBIC-based ports for
high-performance Gigabit Ethernet server connectivity. The 16
server ports can burst to Gigabit Ethernet line rate and share 8
Gbps of capacity (4 Gbps full-duplex) into the switching fabric.
Because all ports use GBICs, the amount of oversubscription can
be controlled by varying the number of GBICs used. All ports can
utilize Gigabit EtherChannel or IEEE 802.3ad for high-speed
interconnection applications. The server ports use the standard
IEEE 802.1x flow control (PAUSE frame) mechanism to control
Gigabit Ethernet host traffic.

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48-Port 1000-BASE-LX Gigabit Ethernet Line Card
(WS-X4448-GB-LX)
The Cisco Catalyst 48-port 1000BASE-LX Gigabit Ethernet line
card provides 48 ports of high-performance 1000BASE-LX
Gigabit Ethernet connectivity allowing service providers to run
point-to-point Gigabit Ethernet links over single-mode fiber within
the access/distribution layer of their metropolitan Ethernet
network. This line card leverages, and includes, 48 1000BASE-LX
small form-factor pluggable (SFP) optics for a high density solution.
The 48 ports can burst up to Gigabit Ethernet line rate and share
12 Gbps of capacity (6 Gbps full-duplex) into the switching fabric.
The amount of oversubscription can be controlled by controlling
the number of ports enabled. All ports use the standard IEEE
802.1x flow control (PAUSE frame) mechanism to control Gigabit
Ethernet host traffic.
Key Benefits
High Performance and Cost-Effective Gigabit Ethernet
Connectivity
Delivering advanced switching solutions that scale bandwidth as
you add ports, the Cisco Catalyst 4000/4500 Series solution is
powered by leading-edge ASIC technology that offers
non-blocking, Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) based Layer 2/3/4
switching at 48 Mpps and 64 Gbps with intelligent services.
Supporting a very low latency, centralized, shared-memory
switching fabric architecture, the Cisco Cisco Catalyst 4000/4500
Series enables high performance, Gigabit Ethernet server
connectivity and Gigabit Ethernet to the desktop. By blending
advanced engineering and advances in manufacturing, the Cisco
Catalyst 4000/4500 Series delivers powerful Gigabit Ethernet
switching solutions at a very cost-effective price point.
Functionally Transparent gigabit Ethernet Line Cards
The Cisco Catalyst 4000/4500 Series architecture enables
customers to easily upgrade all Gigabit Ethernet line cards on
their Cisco Catalyst 4000 systems to higher-layer switching
functionality by simply adding a new Supervisor Engine. This
enables customers to easily upgrade their networks to deploy
new higher-layer functionality on their Gigabit Ethernet
switching solutions without replacing existing Gigabit Ethernet
line cards.
Scalable and Reliable Gigabit Ethernet Solutions
The modular chassis flexibility, variety of Gigabit Ethernet
modules, redundant Supervisor Engine IV (Cisco Catalyst
4507R only), integrated and redundant inline power supplies
and software redundancy features ensure that the Cisco Catalyst
4000/4500 Series meets customers’ needs by delivering reliable,
fault-tolerant, and scalable Gigabit switching solutions. Cisco
Gigabit EtherChannel
®
technology, which is based on proven
EtherChannel technology pioneered by Cisco and extensively
deployed in networks worldwide, and support for IEEE 802.3ad
(Link Aggregation Control Protocol), enables customers to
deploy multigigabit links in server farms that scale up to 8 Gbps
ports for each Gigabit EtherChannel. Port redundancy with
UplinkFast and PortFast, Spanning Tree Algorithm
enhancements, and link redundancy with Gigabit EtherChannel,
across Gigabit links, ensures reliable and fault-tolerant
operations of critical applications.
Gigabit Ethernet Solutions with Intelligent Services for
Control for Converged Data, Voice and Video Networks
The Cisco Catalyst 4000/4500 Series Gigabit Ethernet solutions
deliver intelligent services, such as quality of services,
security, availability, multicast, and manageability. These
intelligent services coupled with predictable high performance
Gigabit switching improve network control and efficiency and
enable the deployment of Internet business solutions for
business productivity gains. Consistent intelligent services
across the Cisco Catalyst switching portfolio, that includes
the Cisco Catalyst 2950, 3550, 4500, and 6500 Series, enables
customers to deploy scalable and flexible Gigabit Ethernet
solutions with seamlessly interoperability and simplified
management.
Features
• Support for 32,000 MAC addresses dynamically allocated
between active ports
• Hardware-based support for 4000 virtual LANs (VLANs)
• 64-Gbps capacity and 48-Mpps CEF-based integrated Layer
2/3/4 performance
• Hot swap capability on all Gigabit Ethernet line cards
• Support for up to 240 ports of 10/100/1000 RJ-45 in one
Cisco Catalyst 4000/4500 chassis
• Gigabit Ethernet modules in the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series
are based on industry-standards IEEE 802.3z and IEEE
802.3ab, ensuring vendor interoperability and long-term
investment protection
• All Gigabit Ethernet ports can be 1000BASE-SX,
1000BASE-LX/LH, 1000BASE-ZX, or CWDM, by using
flexible, hot-swappable, GBIC modules
• GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet modules enable data
transmission up to 100 km, supporting fiber-optic SC interfaces
for both multimode and single-mode connectivity

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• Copper-based Gigabit Ethernet modules enable transmission at
10/100/1000 or 1000 Mbps speeds up to 100 meters over
Category 5 cables
• Gigabit EtherChannel technology across all 1000 Mbps ports
• IEEE 802.3ad (Link Aggregation Control Protocol) technology
across all 1000 Mbps ports 802.1s and 802.1w (Multi-Instance
Spanning Tree and Rapid Convergence) for network
scalability and reliability
• Granular quality of service with four queues per port
• Functionally transparent Gigabit Ethernet line cards
• Long distance runs of Gigabit Ethernet over single-mode fiber
over single-mode fiber
Cisco Catalyst 4000/4500 Series Gigabit Ethernet
Port-Density Configuration Ranges
The fully loaded Catalyst 4003/4503 supports one Supervisor
Engine and two line cards. The fully loaded Catalyst 4507R
supports one, or two, Supervisor Engine IVs for a redundant
supervisor configuration and five line cards. Table 1 lists the
minimum and maximum number of Gigabit Ethernet ports, as well
as the port-density alternatives and interface types for the Cisco
Catalyst 4500 Series.
Ordering Information
Table 1
Cisco Catalyst 4000/4500 Series 1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet Port-Density Configuration Options
Min/Max Interfaces per Chassis
Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series
Switching Modules
Number of Interfaces Supported per Line
Card (Type)
Cisco Catalyst 4503 Cisco Catalyst 4506 and
4507R
Number of Gigabit Ethernet
Uplinks on Supervisor
N/A 2 2
WS-X4306-GB 6 (GBIC) 6/12 6/30
WS-X4418-GB 18 (GBIC) 18/36 18/90
WS-X4424-GB-RJ45 24 (RJ-45) 24/48 24/120
WS-X4448-GB-RJ45 48 (RJ-45) 48/96 48/240
WS-X4448-GB-LX 48 (SFP) 48/96 48/240
Table 2
Cisco Catalyst 4000/4500 Gigabit Ethernet Module Part Number
Product Number Description
WS-X4306-GB Cisco Catalyst 4000/4500 Gigabit Ethernet Module, 6 ports (GBIC)
WS-X4418-GB Cisco Catalyst 4000/4500 GE Module, Server Switching 18 ports (GBIC)
WS-X4448-GB-LX Cisco Catalyst 4000/4500 48-port 1000BASE-LX module (prepopulated with 48 1000BASE-LX SFP optics)
WS-X4424-GB-RJ45 Cisco Catalyst 4000/4500 24-port 10/100/1000 Module (RJ-45)
WS-X4448-GB-RJ45 Cisco Catalyst 4000/4500 48-port 10/100/1000 Module (RJ-45)
WS-G5484 1000BASE-SX ‘Short-Wave’ GBIC (multimode only)
WS-G5486 1000BASE-LX/LH long haul GBIC (single-mode or multimode)
WS-G5487 1000BASE-ZX extended reach GBIC (single-mode only)
CWDM-GBIC-XXXX 1000BASE-CWDM GBIC (please refer to CWDM GBIC data sheet)
CWDM-MUX-XX CWDM OADM (please refer to CWDM GBIC data sheet)

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Technical Specifications
Standard Network Protocols
• Gigabit Ethernet: IEEE 802.3z, IEEE 802.3x, IEEE 802.3ab
• 1000BASE-X (GBIC)
– 1000BASE-SX
– 1000BASE-LX/LH
– 1000BASE-ZX
– CWDM
EtherChannel Technology
• Gigabit EtherChannel technology: All 1000-Mbps ports
– IEEE 802.3ad (Link Aggregation Control Protocol):
All 1000-Mbps ports
• Port Aggregation Protocol (PagP): Yes
• Number of ports per tuple: 8
• EtherChannel and 802.3ad technology across line cards: Yes
Gigabit Switching Line Card Modules
6-port Gigabit Ethernet Module
• 6 Gigabit Ethernet ports, GBIC slots
• Status: Green (operational)/red (faulty)
• Link: Green (operational)/red (faulty)
18-port Gigabit Ethernet Module
• 18 Gigabit Ethernet ports, GBIC slots
• Status: Green (operational)/red (faulty)
• Link: Green (operational)/red (faulty)
48-port 1000BASE-LX Gigabit Ethernet Line Module
• 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports, SFP slots
• Status: Green (operational)/red (faulty)
• Link: Green (operational)/red (faulty)
24-port 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet Module
• 24 10/100/1000BASE-T auto-sensing ports, RJ-45 interface
• Status: Green (operational)/red (faulty)
• Link: Green (operational)/red (faulty)
48-port 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet Module
• 48 10/100/1000BASE-T auto-sensing ports, RJ-45 interface
• Status: Green (operational)/red (faulty)
• Link: Green (operational)/red (faulty)
Physical Specification
• Occupies one slot in the Cisco Catalyst 6000 Series platform
• Dimensions (H x W x D): 1.2 x 14.4 x 16 in. (3.0 x 35.6 x
40.6 cm)
Environmental Conditions
• Operating temperature: 32º to 104ºF (0º to 40ºC)
• Storage temperature: –40º to 167ºF (–40º to 75ºC)
• Relative humidity: 10 to 90%, noncondensing
• Operating altitude: –60 to 4000 m
Safety Conditions
• Fiber optic lasers: Class 1 laser products
Safety Certifications
• UL 1950
• EN 60950
• CSA-C22.2 no 950
• IEC 950
Table 3
Gigabit Ethernet Link Distances
Fiber Core 62.5um Multimode 50um Multimode 9/10um Single Mode
Fiber Modal Bandwidth 160/500 MHz-km
200/500 MHz-km
400/400 MHz-km
500/500 MHz-km
N/A
1000BASE-SX 220 m
275 m
500 m
550 m
N/A
1000BASE-LX/LH 550 m
550 m
550 m
550 m
10 km
1000BASE-ZX N/A N/A 70 to 100 km
Coarse Wave Division Multiplexing (CWDM) N/A N/A 100 km

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Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Hardware Technical
Specifications
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