Specifications

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Cisco Catalyst 2950 Series Intelligent Ethernet Switches
Chapter 2 LAN Switching
Key Features
• Cisco Cluster Management (CMS) Software offers superior manageability, ease-of-use
and ease-of-deployment and enhanced configuration wizards
• Wire-speed performance in connecting end-stations to the LAN
• Provides intelligent services such as advanced quality of service, rate-limiting, security
filters, and multicast management, to the network edge-while maintaining the
simplicity of traditional LAN switching
• Catalyst 2950: Ideal for small- and mid-sized networks
• Catalyst 2955: Ideal for harsh network environments
• Sophisticated Multicast Management via IGMP Snooping
• Scalability and high availability features
• Support for Cisco Redundant Power System 675 (RPS 675)
Competitive Products
Specifications
Catalyst 2950-24
• Medium port density
Catalyst 2950SX-48
• High port density
• High speed uplink connectivity with 2 fixed 1000BASE-SX ports
Catalyst 2950SX-24
• High speed uplink connectivity with 2 fixed 1000BASE-SX ports
• Medium port density
Catalyst 2955 Series with
Enhanced Image (EI)
• Ideal for harsh network environments
• Rugged: Implements industrial-grade components, a compact form factor, convection cooling, and relay
output signaling. Designed to operate at extreme temperatures and under extreme vibration and shock.
• Layer 2/3/4 based services: Advanced QoS, Security, High availability and STP enhancements
• Wire-speed performance
Catalyst 2955T-12
• Twelve 10/100 ports and two 10/100/1000BASE-TX (Copper) uplinks
Catalyst 2955C-12
• Twelve 10/100 ports and two 100BASE-FX (Multimode Fiber) uplinks
Catalyst 2955S-12
• Twelve 10/100 ports and two 100BASE-LX (Singlemode Fiber) uplinks
• Hewlett Packard: Procurve 2500 /2650
• Nortel: BPS 2000/450T/420T
• 3 Com: Superstack 3300/4300/4400/4400SE/4200 series
• Extreme: Summit 24 e2e3
• Dell: Powerconnect 3024/3048/3248
• Hirshchmann
• GarretCom
• Sixnet
Feature 2950G-48-EI 2950G-24-EI 2950G-24-EI-DC 2950G-12-EI 2950T-24
Fixed Ports
48 port 10/100
autosensing & 2
GBIC-based Gigabit
Ethernet ports
24 port 10/100
autosensing & 2 GBIC
ports
24 port 10/100
autosensing & 2 GBIC
ports and DC Power
12 port 10/100
autosensing & 2 GBIC
ports
26-port (24 10/100
autosensing & 2 ports
1000BaseT
Forwarding Bandwidth
13.6 Gbps 8.8 Gbps 8.8Gbps 6.4Gbps 8.8 Gbps
Forwarding Rate
10.1 Mpps 6.6 Mpps 6.6 Mpps 4.8 Mpps 6.6 Mpps
Full-Duplex
Capabilities
All Ports All Ports All Ports All Ports All Ports
VLAN Maximum
250-port-based VLANS Same as 2950G-48-EI Same as 2950G-48-EI Same as 2950G-48-EI Same as 2950G-48-EI
FEC
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
802.1Q
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Security
Port Security, with
MAC aging, Private
VLAN Edge, ACL,
802.11x, IBNS, SSH,
RADIUS, TACACS+,
SNMPv3 (crypto),
BPDU Guard, BPDU
Scheduling, SPAN for
Intrusion Detection,
Spanning Tree Root
Guard
Same as 2950G-48-EI Same as 2950G-48-EI Same as 2950G-48-EI Same as 2950G-48-EI
Multicast
IGMP Snooping, IGMP
filtering, Multicast
VLAN Registration
Same as 2950G-48-EI Same as 2950G-48-EI Same as 2950G-48-EI Same as 2950G-48-EI
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