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Chapter 1 Product Overview
System Architecture
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Cisco Group Management Protocol support standards-based and Cisco
technology-enhanced efficient multimedia networking.
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Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
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CiscoWorks, which can manage critical network characteristics such as
availability, responsiveness, resilience, and security.
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Cisco NetFlow Services. The Cisco NetFlow Services Card for the
Supervisor Engine IV and V support statistics capture in hardware for
flow-based and VLAN-based statistics monitoring. This data can be
exported, collected, and analyzed for virus detection and mitigation,
network-traffic accounting, usage-based network billing, network planning,
network monitoring, and data-mining capabilities. Cisco NetFlow Services is
integral to the Supervisor Engine V-10GE.
Switching Traffic Flow
Figure 1-23
shows switching traffic flow through the system.
