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Data Sheet
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Cisco EnergyWise technology: Cisco EnergyWise is an innovative architecture added to fixed-configuration
switches, including the Cisco Catalyst 2360 Series, that promotes companywide sustainability by reducing
energy consumption across an entire corporate infrastructure. Cisco EnergyWise enables companies to
measure the power consumption of the network infrastructure and network-attached devices and manage
power consumption with specific policies, reducing power consumption to lower costs.
Cisco EnergyWise encompasses a highly intelligent network-based approach to communicate messages that
measure and control energy between network devices and endpoints. The network discovers Cisco
EnergyWise manageable devices, monitors their power consumption, and takes action based on business
rules to reduce power consumption. The management interface uses standard Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP) or TCP to integrate Cisco and third-party management systems.
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Efficient switch operation: Cisco Catalyst 2360 Series switches, designed and engineered by Cisco,
provides significant power savings through low-power operation for industry best-in-class and power
consumption capabilities. The Cisco Catalyst 2360 Series ports offer reduced-power modes so that a port not
in use can move into a lower power utilization state.
Easy-to-Use Deployment and Control Features
The Cisco Catalyst 2360 Series helps reduce operating costs through the following features:
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Autonegotiation on all ports automatically selects half- or full-duplex transmission mode to optimize
bandwidth.
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Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP) facilitates dynamic trunk configuration across all switch ports.
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Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP) automates the creation of Gigabit EtherChannel groups to link to another
switch, router, or server.
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Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) allows the creation of Ethernet channeling with devices that
conform to IEEE 802.3ad. This feature is similar to Cisco EtherChannel technology and PAgP.
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Automatic media-dependent interface crossover (MDIX) automatically adjusts transmit and receive pairs if an
incorrect cable type (crossover or straight-through) is installed.
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Unidirectional Link Detection Protocol (UDLD) and Aggressive UDLD allow unidirectional links caused by
incorrect fiber-optic wiring or port faults to be detected and disabled on fiber-optic interfaces.
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Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) snooping for IPv4 and IPv6 Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)
v1 and v2 snooping provide fast client joins and leaves of multicast streams and limit bandwidth-intensive
video traffic to only the requestors.
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Per-port broadcast, multicast, and unicast storm control prevent faulty end stations from degrading overall
system performance.
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Cisco VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) supports dynamic VLANs and dynamic trunk configuration across all
switches.
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Switch Port Analyzer (SPAN) allows administrators to monitor ports in a Layer 2 switch network from any
other switch in the same network.
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For enhanced traffic management, monitoring, and analysis, the Embedded Remote Monitoring (RMON)
software agent supports four RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events).
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Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) reduces the cost of administering software upgrades by downloading
from a centralized location.
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Network Timing Protocol (NTP) provides an accurate and consistent timestamp to all intranet switches.