• Single IP address management for a stack of switches
• Cisco IOS Software CLI support provides a common user interface and command set with all Cisco routers and Cisco Catalyst desktop switches.
• IP Service Level Agreement (responder only) uses active monitoring to generate traffic in a continuous, reliable, and predictable manner, thus enabling the measurement of network performance and health.
• 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 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.
• IGMPv3 snooping for IPv4 and MLD v1 and v2 Snooping for IPv6 provide fast client joins and leaves of multicast streams and limits bandwidth-intensive video traffic to only the requestors.
• Remote SPAN (RSPAN) allows administrators to remotely monitor ports in a Layer 2 switch network from any other switch in the same network.
• For enhanced traffic management, monitoring, and analysis, the Embedded Remote Monitoring (RMON) software agent supports four RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events).
• Layer 2 trace route eases troubleshooting by identifying the physical path that a packet takes from source to destination.
• All RMON groups are supported through a SPAN port, which permits traffic monitoring of a single port, or a group of ports, from a single network analyzer or RMON probe.
• Domain Name System (DNS) provides IP address resolution with user-defined device names.
• 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.
• Multifunction LEDs per port for port status; half-duplex and full-duplex mode; PoE; and 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T indication as well as switch-level status LEDs for system, stack master, and redundant power supply provide a comprehensive and convenient visual management system.
• Cisco Discovery Protocol Versions 1 and 2 help enable automatic switch discovery for network management tools and communicate Voice VLAN information with Cisco IP phones.
• Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) and LLDP Media Extensions (LLDP-MED) including client location information. Switches exchange link and device information in multivendor networks.
• IPv6 Host provides basic IPv6 management such as IPv4/IPv6 dual stack, unicast address types, ICMPv6, AAAA DNS lookup over IPv4, Secure Shell (SSH) for v6, IPv6 neighbor discovery, CDP, Telnet, TFTP, SNMP, HTTP, HTTPS , Traceroute, syslog for v6.
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