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Ultra Flexible and Scalable Switch
Clustering Technology
• GigaStack™ GBIC delivers a hardware-based,
independent stacking bus with up to 2 Gbps
forwarding rate in a point-to-point configuration, or
1 Gbps forwarding bandwidth when daisy chained
with up to 9 switches
• Clustering now supports the member discovery and
cluster creation over a single routed hop
• Cisco Switch Clustering technology allows the user to
manage up to 16 inter-connected Catalyst 3550-12T,
Catalyst 2950, Catalyst 3500 XL, Catalyst 2900 XL
and Catalyst 1900 switches through a single IP address
without the limitation of being physically located in
the same wiring closet
• GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet ports give customers
a choice of 1000BaseSX, 1000BaseLX/LH,
1000BaseZX, 1000BaseT or Cisco GigaStack
stacking GBICs to fit their connection needs
• Command switch redundancy allows customers to
designate a backup command switch that takes over
cluster management functions in the event of a failure
of the primary command switch
• Easy interfaces to complex tasks of setting up
Layer 3 functions
Integrated Cisco IOS Switching Solution
• Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP) server
functionality enables a switch to serve as the CGMP
router for CGMP client switches and IGMP snooping
is supported in the hardware
• Bandwidth aggregation up to 16 Gbps through
Gigabit EtherChannel
®
enhances fault tolerance and
offers higher-speed aggregated bandwidth between
switches, to routers and individual servers
• Per-port broadcast, multicast, and unicast storm
control prevents faulty end stations from degrading
overall systems performance
• IOS Command Line Interface (CLI) support provides
common user interface and command set with all
Cisco routers and Cisco desktop switches
• Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) enables a CiscoWorks
network management station to automatically
discover the switch in a network topology
• VLAN trunks can be created from any port using
either standards-based 802.1Q tagging or the Cisco
ISL VLAN architecture
• Support for 1005 VLANs per switch and 128
instances of Spanning Tree per switch
• Cisco Virtual Trunking Protocol (VTP) supports
dynamic VLANs and dynamic trunk configuration
across all switches
• Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP) enables dynamic
trunk configuration across all ports in the switch
• Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP) automates the
creation of Fast EtherChannel or Gigabit
EtherChannel groups, enabling linking to
another switch, router, or server.
• Support for Maximum Transmission Units (MTUs)
of up to 2025 Bytes
Superior Manageability
• Built-in Web-based Cisco CMS software provides an
easy-to-use Web-based management interface through
a standard browser such as Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet Explorer
• SNMP and Telnet interface support delivers
comprehensive in-band management, and a
Command Line Interface (CLI)-based management
console provides detailed out-of-band management
• Manageable through CiscoWorks Windows network
management software on a per-port and per-switch
basis providing a common management interface for
Cisco routers, switches and hubs
• Supported by the Cisco Quality Policy Manger (QPM)
solution
• RMON software agent supports four RMON groups
(History, Statistics, Alarms and Events) for enhanced
traffic management, monitoring, and analysis
• Support for all nine RMON groups through use of a
SwitchProbe
®
Analyzer (SPAN) port which permits
traffic monitoring of a single port, a group of ports, or
the entire switch from a single network analyzer or
RMON probe
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