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How to Choose SFP+ Transceivers for Cisco 4500 Series Switch

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The Cisco 4500 series switches provide high performance, mobile, and secure user experiences through Layer 2-4 switching investments. Since they have a centralized forwarding architecture that enables collaboration, virtualization, and operational manageability through simplified operations, therefore, more and more people choose to use 4500 series switch in their network. As we know, once we use a network switch, we may use some transceiver modules. In this article, some SFP+ transceivers that supported for Cisco 4500 series switch will be introduced.

Cisco 4500 Series Switch Overview
Cisco 4500 series switch include 4500 Series and 4500E Series switch. Among, 4500 series include Catalyst 4503 Switch, Catalyst 4506 Switch, Catalyst 4507R Switch, Catalyst 4510R Switch. With forward and backward compatibility spanning multiple generations, the new Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series provides exceptional investment protection and deployment flexibility to meet the evolving needs of organizations of all sizes, which include Catalyst 4503-E Switch, Catalyst 4506-E Switch, Catalyst 4507R+E Switch and Catalyst 4510R+E Switch. SFP+ ports operate in full-duplex mode and are present on the WS-X4516-10GE and WS-X4013+10GE supervisors, as well as some line cards. These ports use the 10GBASE-SR, 10GBASE-LRM and 10GBASE-LR SFP+. SFP+ connectors vary with interface type and may use multimode fiber (MMF) or single-mode fiber (SMF) cable.

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Supervisor Engine for Cisco 4500 Series Switch
The Cisco supervisor engine is the brain of many of Cisco’s switches, which refers to specific modules that can be placed in a modular chassis. Cisco 4500 series and 6500 series switch both require supervisor engines to work. In fact, the transceivers type depends on the port type of supervisor engine. So, it’s necessary to identify the port type of your supervisor engines first. In following table, I display some supervisor engines that both supported for Catalys 4500 series switch and SFP+ transceivers. Please note that WS-X4516-10GE, WS-X4013+10GE, WS-X45-Sup6-E, WS-X45-Sup6L-E and WS-X4606-X2-E can also be used for X2 transceivers with CVR-X2-SFP10G converter.

Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine V-10GE
WS-X4516-10GE 2×10 Gigabit Ethernet (X2 or SFP+) or 4X1 Gigabit Ethernet (SFP)
Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine II-Plus-10GE
WS-X4013+10GE 2x10GE (X2 or SFP+) and 4×1 Gigabit Ethernet (SFP)
Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 6-E And 6L-E
WS-X45-Sup6-E 2×10 Gigabit Ethernet (X2 or SFP+) or 4×1 Gigabit Ethernet (SFP), Console RJ-45, USB
WS-X45-Sup6L-E 2×10 Gigabit Ethernet (X2 or SFP+) or 4×1 Gigabit Ethernet (SFP), Console RJ-45
Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Line Cards
WS-X4606-X2-E 6×10 Gigabit Ethernet (X2 or SFP+)
WS-X4712-SFP+E 12×10 Gigabit Ethernet (SFP+)
Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Supervisor Engine 7-E And 7L-E
WS-X45-SUP7-E 4×10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks (SFP+)
WS-X45-SUP7L-E 2×10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks (SFP+) or 4×1 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks (SFP)
Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Supervisor Engine 8-E And 8L-E
WS-X45-SUP8-E 8×10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks (SFP+)
WS-X45-SUP8L-E 4×10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks (SFP+) or 4×1 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks (SFP)

SFP+ Transceivers for Cisco 4500 Series Switch
According to Cisco 10-Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver Modules Compatibility Matrix, all supervisor engines mentioned above can support SFP-10G-SR, SFP-10G-LRM, SFP-10G-LR, SFP-10G-SR-S and SFP-10G-LR-S SFP+ transceivers. Besides, WS-X4712-SFP+E, WS-X45-SUP7-E, WS-X45-SUP7L-E, WS-X45-SUP8-E and WS-X45-SUP8L-E can also support SFP-10G-ER, SFP-10G-ZR, SFP-10G-ER-S and SFP-10G-ZR-S SFP+ transceivers. All SFP+ transceievrs can be found in FS.COM.

WS-X4516-10GE, WS-X4013+10GE, WS-X45-Sup6-E, WS-X45-Sup6L-E, WS-X4606-X2-E, WS-X4712-SFP+E, WS-X45-SUP7-E, WS-X45-SUP7L-E, WS-X45-SUP8-E and WS-X45-SUP8L-E
SFP-10G-SR Cisco SFP-10G-SR Compatible 10GBASE-SR SFP+ 850nm 300m DOM Transceiver, $ 16
SFP-10G-LRM Cisco SFP-10G-LRM Compatible 10GBASE-LRM SFP+ 1310nm 220m DOM Transceiver, $ 34
SFP-10G-LR Cisco SFP-10G-LR Compatible 10GBASE-LR SFP+ 1310nm 10km DOM Transceiver, $ 34
SFP-10G-SR-S Cisco SFP-10G-SR-S Compatible 10GBASE-SR SFP+ 850nm 300m DOM Transceiver, $ 16
SFP-10G-LR-S Cisco SFP-10G-LR-S Compatible 10GBASE-LR SFP+ 1310nm 10km DOM Transceiver, $ 34
WS-X4712-SFP+E, WS-X45-SUP7-E, WS-X45-SUP7L-E, WS-X45-SUP8-E and WS-X45-SUP8L-E
SFP-10G-ER Cisco SFP-10G-ER Compatible 10GBASE-ER SFP+ 1550nm 40km DOM Transceiver, $ 180
SFP-10G-ZR Cisco SFP-10G-ZR Compatible SFP+ 1550nm 80km DOM Transceiver, $ 400
SFP-10G-ER-S Cisco SFP-10G-ER-S Compatible 10GBASE-ER SFP+ 1550nm 40km DOM Transceiver, $ 180
SFP-10G-ZR-S Cisco SFP-10G-ZR-S Compatible 10GBASE-ZR SFP+ 1550nm 80km DOM Transceiver, $ 400

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