
4 Cisco Product Catalog, June, 2002
• Switch Database Manager templates for access, routing, and VLAN deployment scenarios allow the network
administrator to easily maximize memory allocation to the desired features based on deployment-specific requirements.
• VLAN trunks can be created from any port using either standards-based 802.1Q tagging or the Cisco ISL VLAN
architecture.
• Support for up to 1,005 VLANs per switch and up to 128 instances of spanning tree per switch.
• Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP) server functionality enables a switch to serve as the CGMP router for CGMP
client switches-requires Enhanced Multilayer Software Image (EMI).
• IGMP snooping provides for fast client joins and leaves of multicast streams and limits bandwidth-intensive video traffic
to only the requestors.
• Embedded Remote Monitoring (RMON) software agent supports four RMON groups (History, Statistics, Alarms and
Events) for enhanced traffic management, monitoring, and analysis.
• Support for all nine RMON groups through use of a Switch Port Analyzer (SPAN) port, which permits traffic monitoring
of a single port, a group of ports, or the entire switch from a single network analyzer or RMON probe.
• Domain Name Services (DNS) provide 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 switches within the intranet.
• Multifunction LEDs per port for port status, half-duplex/full-duplex, 10BaseT/100BaseTX /1000BaseT indication, as
well as switch-level status LEDs for system, redundant power supply, and bandwidth utilization provide a comprehensive
and convenient visual management system.
High-Performance IP Routing
All IP routing features require the Enhanced Multilayer Software Image (EMI)
• Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF)-based routing architecture performed in hardware to deliver extremely high-
performance IP routing.
• Support for all commonly deployed and industry standard IP unicast routing protocols (RIPv1, RIPv2, OSPF, IGRP,
EIGRP) for load balancing and constructing scalable LANs.
• Static IP routing for manually building a routing table of network path information.
• Inter-VLAN IP routing for full Layer 3 routing between two or more VLANs.
• Equal cost routing for load balancing and redundancy.
• Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) for IP multicast routing within a network that enables the network to receive the
multicast feed requested and for switches not participating in the multicast to be pruned - support for PIM sparse mode
(PIM-SM), PIM dense mode (PIM-DM), and PIM sparse-dense mode.
• Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP) tunneling for interconnecting two multicast-enabled networks
across non-multicast networks.
• Fallback bridging for forwarding of non-IP traffic between two or more VLANs.
• Cisco Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) to create redundant fail-safe routing topologies.
Scalability
Ultra-Flexible and Scalable Stacking and Cisco Switch Clustering Technology
• The Cisco GigaStack Gigabit Interface Converter (GBIC) delivers a hardware-based, independent stacking bus with up
to 2 Gbps forwarding rate in a point-to-point configuration, or 1-Gbps forwarding bandwidth when daisy chained with up
to nine switches.
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