Specification Sheet

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Feature
Benefits
Threat Defense
Advanced, integrated security features that provide threat defense capabilities for mitigating man-in-the-middle attacks
and protecting your critical network infrastructure.
Superior Layer 2 capabilities for mitigating MAC, IP, and ARP spoofing risks. Also protects port security, guards
against DHCP snooping, and supports Dynamic ARP Inspection and IP Source Guard.
Ipv6 first-hop security with Binding Integrity Guard, RA Guard, and DHCP Guard.
Private VLAN provides security and isolation between switch ports.
Multidomain Authentication allows an IP phone and a PC to authenticate on the same switch port while placing
them on appropriate voice and data VLAN.
Secure Shell (SSH), Kerberos, and Simple Network Management Protocol Version 3 (SNMPv3) that encrypt
administrator traffic during Telnet and SNMP sessions to keep access credentials secure.
Port-based access control list (ACL) to let the switch automatically allow or block packets based on policies for
source and destination IP addresses. Rules can be set up differently on a port-by-port basis.
Secure Boot to make sure that only signed and authorized images can load on the switch.
Cisco AutoSecure to simplify security configurations with a single-line CLI.
Power Management and Energy Efficiency
Switch Hibernate
Mode
Innovative technology that puts the switch in an ultra-low power mode during periods of nonoperation such as nights
and weekends. The switch can be configured to be in the hibernate mode using the Cisco Energy Management Suite.
IEEE 802.3az or
Energy-Efficient
Ethernet (EEE)
Ports dynamically sense idle periods between traffic bursts and quickly switch the interfaces into a low-power idle mode,
reducing power consumption.
Perpetual PoE
Provides uninterrupted power to a powered-down device even when the switch is booting. This eliminates the need for
a backup power source.
PoE pass-through
PoE pass-through gives the ability to power PoE end devices through drawing Cisco UPOE from the wiring closet. The
Cisco Catalyst 3560CX-8PT-S has eight downlink ports with two Cisco UPOE input ports that allow it to be powered by
another switch. These switches do not need a power supply and receive power over the uplink from an upstream PoE
or Cisco UPOE device, providing deployment flexibility and availability.
Cisco Energy
Management Suite
(formerly EnergyWise)
Measures power consumption of network infrastructure and network-attached devices and enforces rules to reduce
energy usage.
Power Supply
80-Plus Silver Certified.
Traffic Management and QoS
Application Visibility
NetFlow Lite lets you maintain awareness of all application traffic on the network. It helps capture and record specific
packet flows. Exports flow data in the NetFlow Version 9 format for analysis on a wide range of Cisco and third-party
collectors.
Advanced Quality of
Service
Intelligent traffic management with flexible mechanisms for marking, classifying, and scheduling traffic at wire speed.
Includes:
Up to eight egress queues per port and strict priority queuing so that the highest priority packets are serviced
ahead of all other traffic.
Shaped Round Robin (SRR) scheduling and Weighted Tail Drop (WTD) congestion avoidance.
Flow-based rate limiting and up to 256 aggregate or individual policers per port.
Product Details
Switch Models
The Cisco Catalyst Compact Switches are available in nine switch models. They vary by whether they support both
Layer 2 and Layer 3 services or Layer 2 services only; whether they support Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+); by
the number of Gigabit Ethernet and Multigigabit Ethernet ports; the aggregate power provided, and the type of
cabling connections they support.