Installation guide

Switch Features
Catalyst 3500 Series XL Installation Guide
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Table 1-2 Catalyst 3512, 3524, and 3548 XL Features
Feature Description
Performance and Configuration • Autonegotiation of speed and duplex operation on 10/100 Ethernet ports
• 12, 24, or 48 10/100 Ethernet ports and 2 GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet slots
• Support for up to 250 port-based VLANs
• ISL and IEEE 802.1Q trunking support on all ports (Enterprise Edition
software only)
• High-speed EtherChannel connections between switches and servers
• 8192 MAC addresses
• Cisco IOS Release 12.0(5)XP support
• IEEE 802.1p capable
• CGMP to limit the flooding of IP multicast traffic
• Broadcast storm control to prevent performance degradation from broadcast
storms
• Support for Cisco GBIC modules
— 1000BaseSX GBIC module
— 1000BaseLX/LH GBIC module
— GigaStack GBIC module
• SPAN port monitoring on any port
Management • Cisco IOS CLI through the console port or Telnet
• CiscoView device-management application
• Cluster management, a web-based tool for managing switch clusters through
a single IP address
• CVSM and Cisco Switch Network View, web-based tools for managing
individual switches and viewing the network
• SNMP
Redundancy • Connection for optional Cisco 600W RPS that operates on AC input and
supplies DC output to the switch