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Key Features/Benefits
Exceptional Performance
• Twelve, 24, or 48 10Base-T/100Base-TX autosensing
ports, each delivering up to 200 Mbps of bandwidth to
individual users, servers, or workgroups to support
bandwidth-intensive applications
• Two built-in, GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet ports,
delivering up to 4 Gbps aggregated bandwidth to
Gigabit Ethernet backbones, Gigabit Ethernet servers,
or between switches
• 10.8 Gbps switching fabric and up to a 8.0-million-
packets-per-second forwarding rate, ensuring high
performance forwarding to each 10Base-T/100Base-TX
and Gigabit Ethernet port
• 4 MB shared-memory architecture, ensuring the
highest-possible throughput with a design that
eliminates head-of-line blocking, minimizes packet loss,
anddelivers better overall performance in environments
with extensive multicast and broadcast traffic
• Full-duplex operation on all ports, delivering up to 200
Mbps on 10/100 ports or 2 Gbps on 1000Base-X ports
• Dual-priority forwarding queues on each 10/100 and
Gigabit Ethernet ports, enabling network traffic
prioritization and seamless data, voice, and video
integration through IEEE 802.1p protocol
• Trusted extension settings allows the switch to set
trusted port settings for the PC port on Cisco IP phones,
ensuring voice traffic receives highest priority
• Port-based reclassification allows users to reclassify
IEEE 802.1p class-of-service (CoS) values on a per-port
basis (via command-line interface [CLIs]) enabling a
finer granularity of control to implement LAN edge QoS
• Bandwidth aggregation through Fast EtherChannel and
Gigabit EtherChannel technologies, enhancing fault
tolerance and offering from 400 Mbps to 4 Gbps of
aggregated bandwidth between switches, and to routers
and individual servers
• GigaStack GBIC delivers a low-cost, independent
stack bus with a 1 Gbps forwarding bandwidth in a
daisy-chain configuration, with up to nine Catalyst
3500 XL or gigabit-enabled Catalyst 2900 Series XL
switchesor a 2 Gbps forwarding rateina point-to-point
configuration
• GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet ports give customers a
choiceof 1000Base-T, 1000Base-SX, 1000Base-LX/LH,
1000Base-ZX or Cisco GigaStack stacking GBICs to fit
their connection needs
• Per-port broadcast, multicast and unicast storm control
prevents faulty end stations from degrading overall
system performance
Flexible and Scalable Switch Clustering
Architecture
• Cisco Switch Clustering technology allows a user to
manage up to sixteen interconnected Catalyst 3500 XL,
2900 XL, and Catalyst 1900 switches through a single
IP address regardless of location
• Command Switch Redundancy allows customers to
designate a backup command switch, which takes over
clustermanagement functions in the event of a failureof
the primary command switch
Ease of Use and Ease of Deployment
• Auxiliary VLAN via 802.1Q supports automatic
segmentation of phone and data endpoints into
separate logical networks
• Cluster software administration feature allows the
network manager to quickly and easily upgrade the
system software on a group of Catalyst 3500 XL,
2900 XL, and Catalyst 1900 switches
• IEEE 802.3z-compliant 1000Base-T, 1000Base-SX,
1000Base-LX/LH, and 1000Base-ZX physical interface
support through a field-replaceable GBIC module
provides customers unprecedented flexibility in switch
deployment
• Autosensing on each port detects attached device speed
and automatically configures the port for 10 or 100
Mbps operation, easing the deployment of the switch
in mixed 10Base-T and 100Base-TX environments
• Autonegotiating on all ports automatically selects
half- or full-duplex transmission mode to optimize
bandwidth
• Autoconfiguration eases switch deployment in the
network by automatically configuring multiple switches
across a network via a boot server
• Default configuration stored in Flash memory ensures
that a switch can be quickly connected to the network
and can pass traffic with minimal user intervention,
preserving configuration in case of a power outage
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