Dual-purpose uplink port has one 10/100/1000 Ethernet port and
one Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP)-based Gigabit Ethernet port,
with one port active at a time
LAN Base Image installed
Configurable up to 8000 MAC addresses
Configurable up to 255 IGMP groups
Superior Redundancy for Fault Backup
Integrated Cisco IOS Software Features for Bandwidth
Optimization
Advanced QoS
Granular Rate Limiting
Networkwide Security Features
Management & Protocols
Manageable: Yes
Management:
Cisco Network Assistant
CiscoWorks Support
Device manager
Cisco Express Setup
CiscoView application
Cisco Network Assistant Software
Remote Monitoring (RMON)
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) reduces the cost of
administering software upgrades by downloading from a centralized
location
Network Timing Protocol (NTP) provides an accurate and
consistent timestamp to all intranet switches
Cisco IOS CLI support provides a common user interface and
command set with all Cisco routers and Cisco Catalyst desktop
switches
Cisco Service Assurance Agent (SAA) support facilitates
service-level management throughout the LAN
Switching Database Manager templates for security and QoS allow
administrators to easily adjust memory allocation to the desired
features based on deployment-specific requirements
VLAN trunks can be created from any port using standards-based
802.1q tagging
Up to 255 VLANs per switch or stack and up to 128 spanning-tree
instances per switch are supported.
Four thousand VLAN IDs are supported
Voice VLAN simplifies telephony installations by keeping voice
traffic on a separate VLAN for easier administration and
troubleshooting
Cisco VTP supports dynamic VLANs and dynamic trunk
configuration across all switches
SNMP v1, v2c, and v3 and Telnet interface support delivers
comprehensive in-band management, and a CLI-based management
console provides detailed out-of-band management
Cisco Discovery Protocol Versions 1 and 2 help enable a
CiscoWorks network-management station for automatic switch
discovery