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POSITIONING
 How does the Cisco Catalyst 3560 Series compare to the Cisco Catalyst 3550 Series?
 The Cisco Catalyst 3560 Series extends Cisco’s PoE and 10/100/1000 offerings. Both product families are designed for deployments
in similar topological positions in the network and support networkwide intelligent services such as advanced QoS, rate-limiting,
ACLs, multicast management, and high performance routing. In contrast to the Catalyst 3550 Series, the Catalyst 3560 Series offers
10/100/1000 models as well as the flexibility of several uplink options through SFP-based instead of GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet
ports. The smaller form factor allows a design with 48 10/100 ports with PoE and 4 SFP-based uplink ports in a 1 rack unit (RU) form
factor. Also, the Catalyst 3560 Series supports the IEEE 802.3af PoE implementation in addition to Cisco’s prestandard PoE (inline
power) implementation. The Catalyst 3550 Series is a broader product family that includes AC and DC powered 10/100
configurations, low-port-density Gigabit Ethernet configurations, and a 100FX aggregator switch. All of the Catalyst 3550
configurations support the Cisco GigaStack GBIC for stacking connections.
 How does the Cisco Catalyst 3560 Series compare to the Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series?
 The Cisco Catalyst 3560 Series consists of mainstream products for fixed configuration enterprise 10/100 and 10/100/1000
applications. The Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series is ideal when a group of interconnected switches requires higher levels of availability,
redundancy, performance, and ease-of-use inherent in the Cisco StackWise technology. The Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series also has Fast
Ethernet configurations that support IEEE 802.3af and Cisco prestandard PoE.
SOFTWARE UPDATES
 For which fixed configuration and stackable Cisco Catalyst switches can I obtain a “no additional cost” Cisco IOS Software
update?
 Cisco offers ongoing Cisco IOS Software updates at no additional cost for the fixed configuration and stackable Cisco Catalyst
switches listed below. Updates within the Cisco IOS package purchased (LAN Base, IP Base, IP Services, and so on) will be made
available for the life of the product.
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Cisco Catalyst Express 500 Series Switches
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Cisco Catalyst 2900 XL Series Switches
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Cisco Catalyst 2940 Series Switches
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Cisco Catalyst 2948G-GE-TX Series Switch
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Cisco Catalyst 2950 Series Switches
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Cisco Catalyst 2950 LRE Series Switches
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Cisco Catalyst 2955 Series Switches
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Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series Switches
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Cisco Catalyst 2970 Series Switches
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Cisco Catalyst 3500 XL Series Switches
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Cisco Catalyst 3550 Series Switches
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Cisco Catalyst 3560 Series Switches
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Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series Switches
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Cisco ME 2400 Series Switches
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Cisco ME 3400 Series Switches
Note that upgrades are different from updates. For example, an upgrade from the IP Base Package to the IP Services Package provides
significant new function; therefore, this upgrade requires the purchase of a software license upgrade. Updates are incremental software