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Quality of Service
All Catalyst 3500 Series XL switches support LAN edge
QoS based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers (IEEE) 802.1p class of service (CoS), as well as
port-based prioritization. The Catalyst 3524-PWR XL
supports port-based reclassification, which allows the
switch to change the CoS settings of tagged packets on
a per-port basis. For untagged packets, the switch uses
the default ingress port priority to classify the packets.
Priority scheduling is applied between the queues, which
ensures that the high priority queue is always serviced
before scheduling the lower priority traffic. These features
enable users to prioritize mission critical traffic, such as
Voice over IP (VoIP) and Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP)applicationsoverregulartraffic,suchasFileTransfer
Protocol (FTP) or low-priority Web surfing traffic.
Catalyst3500XLand2900XLswitchescanautomatically
configure Virtual LAN (VLAN) and trusted-extension
settings for IP telephones, which overcomes the
management complexity of overlaying a voice topology
onto a data network and maintaining the quality of voice
traffic. With the auxiliary VLAN feature, network
administrators can segment phones into separate logical
networks even though the data and voice infrastructure is
physically the same. The auxiliary VLAN feature places
the phones into their own VLANs without any end-user
intervention. The user simply plugs the phone into the
switch, and the switch will provide the phone with the
necessary VLAN information. Trusted extension settings
allow the switch to ensure that voice traffic from an IP
phone gets high-priority treatment by controlling how
traffic from a daisy-chained device is classified.
Resiliency Features
Catalyst 3500 Series XL switches have a number of
hardware- and software-based high-availability features
that prevent network and power outages from disrupting
networkavailability,includinginlinepowerandadvanced
spanning-tree convergence.
Catalyst 3524-PWR XL can provide 48-volt DC power
over standard Category 5 UTP cable up to 100 meters.
Insteadofrequiring wallpower ateverydesktop, terminal
devices such as IP telephones can utilize power provided
from the Catalyst 3524-PWR XL switch. With the Phone
Discovery feature, the Catalyst switch automatically
detects the presence of an IP phone and supplies inline
power. By deploying Catalyst 3524-PWR XL switches
with uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems in
securedwiringclosets, networkadministratorscanensure
that power outages will not affect a building’s network
telephony connections.
The Cisco Redundant Power System 300 (RPS 300)
provides internal power supply redundancy for up to six
networking devices and features an immediate fail-over
capability. The Cisco RPS 300 can be combined with the
Catalyst3524-PWRSeriesXLdesktopswitchanda UPSto
establish the Cisco Centralized Power Provisioning System.
Dual gigabit uplinks on the Catalyst 3524-PWR XL
switch provide physical uplink redundancy in case the
primary link goes down. Enhanced spanning-tree
convergence features such as Port Fast, Uplink Fast and
Per VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST) ensure rapid
convergence of spanning tree in the case of link failure.
PVST allows usersto implementredundant uplinks while
also distributing traffic loads across multiple links—not
possible with standard shielded twisted pair (STP)
implementations. Cisco Uplink Fast and Cisco Cross
Stack Uplink Fast technologies ensure quick failover
recovery, enhancing network and stack stability and
reliability.
Software Management Features
Cisco Catalyst 3500 Series XL switches include several
exceptional features to increase performance and
manageability for converged networks. To boost
performance, Fast EtherChannel
®
and Gigabit
EtherChannel technology offer from 400 Mbps to 4 Gbps
high-performance bandwidth among Catalyst switches,
routers, and servers. The Cisco Group Management
Protocol (CGMP) enhances the performance of multimedia
applications and reduces network traffic by allowing a
switch to selectively and dynamically forward IP multicast
traffic to targeted end stations.
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