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Manageability
Superior
Manageability
• Cisco IOS CLI support provides a common user interface and command set with all Cisco
routers and Cisco Catalyst desktop switches.
• Cisco Service Assurance Agent (SAA) support facilitates service-level management
throughout the LAN.
• VLAN trunks can be created from any port, using either standards-based 802.1Q tagging
or the Cisco Inter-Switch Link (ISL) VLAN architecture.
• Up to 1024 VLANs per switch and up to 128 spanning-tree instances per switch are
supported.
• 4000 VLAN IDs are supported.
• Voice VLAN simplifies telephony installations by keeping voice traffic on a separate VLAN
for easier administration and troubleshooting.
• Cisco VTP supports dynamic VLANs and dynamic trunk configuration across all switches.
• IGMP snooping provides fast client joins and leaves of multicast streams and limits
bandwidth-intensive video traffic to only the requestors.
• Remote Switch Port Analyzer (RSPAN) allows administrators to remotely monitor ports in
a Layer 2 switch network from any other switch in the same network.
• For enhanced traffic management, monitoring, and analysis, the Embedded Remote
Monitoring (RMON) software agent supports 4 RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms,
and events).
• Layer 2 traceroute eases troubleshooting by identifying the physical path that a packet
takes from source to destination.
• All 9 RMON groups are supported through a SPAN port, which permits traffic monitoring
of a single port, a group of ports from a single network analyzer, or RMON probe.
• The Domain Name System (DNS) provides IP address resolution with user-defined device
names.
• Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) reduces the cost of administering software upgrades
by downloading from a centralized location.
• Network Timing Protocol (NTP) provides an accurate and consistent timestamp to all
intranet switches.
• Multifunction LEDs per port for port status; half-duplex and full-duplex mode; 10-, 100-,
and 1000-BASE-T indication; and switch-level status LEDs for system, redundant-power
supply, and bandwidth utilization provide a comprehensive and convenient visual
management system.
Table 1 Product Features and Benefits (Continued)
Feature Benefit