Licensing for Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series

Licensing for Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series

The three feature sets available with Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Switches are:

● Cisco IOS XE Software LAN Base: This feature set on the bundles provides Layer 2 features for access.

● Cisco IOS XE Software IP Base: This feature set is upgradable with a software activation license (SAL). It includes all Layer 2 features and some basic Layer 3 features. ISSU and SSO are supported in this package.

● Cisco IOS XE Software Enterprise Services: This feature set is upgradable with a SAL; it supports full Layer 3 protocols and advanced features such as complete routing scalability, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF), Policy-Based Routing (PBR), and so on.

These features can be enabled using the software-licensing mechanism. For details about software licensing, refer to http://www.cisco.com/go/sa.