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The Cisco Catalyst 3550 Series Intelligent Ethernet Switches include the following configurations:
• Catalyst 3550-24 Switch—24 10/100 ports and two Gigabit Interface Converter (GBIC)-based Gigabit Ethernet
ports; 1 rack unit (RU)
• Catalyst 3550-24 PWR Switch—24 10/100 ports with integrated inline power and two GBIC-based Gigabit
Ethernet ports; 1 RU
• Catalyst 3550-24-DC Switch—24 10/100 ports and two GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet ports; 1 RU; DC-powered
• Catalyst 3550-24-FX Switch—24 100FX ports and two GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet ports; 1 RU
• Catalyst 3550-48 Switch—48 10/100 ports and two GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet ports; 1 RU
• Catalyst 3550-12G Switch—10 GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet ports and two 10/100/1000BASE-T ports; 1.5 RU
• Catalyst 3550-12T switch—10 10/100/1000BASE-T ports and two GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet ports; 1.5 RU
The built-in Gigabit Ethernet ports accommodate a range of GBIC transceivers, including the Cisco GigaStack
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GBIC, 1000BASE-T, 1000BASE-SX, 1000BASE-LX/LH, 1000BASE-ZX and CWDM GBICs. The dual GBIC-based
Gigabit Ethernet implementation on the Fast Ethernet configurations provides customers tremendous deployment
flexibility—allowing customers to implement one type of stacking and uplink configuration today, while preserving the
option to migrate that configuration in the future. High levels of stack resiliency can also be implemented by deploying
dual redundant Gigabit Ethernet uplinks, a redundant GigaStack GBIC loopback cable, UplinkFast and CrossStack
UplinkFast technologies for high-speed uplink and stack interconnection failover, and Per VLAN Spanning Tree Plus
(PVST+)foruplinkloadbalancing.ThisGigabit Ethernetflexibilitymakes theCatalyst3550switches an idealLANedge
complement to the Cisco Catalyst 6500 family of Gigabit Ethernet optimized core LAN switches.
Included with the Catalyst 3550-24, 3550-24 PWR, 3550-24-DC, 3550-24-FX and 3550-48 are the Standard
Multilayer Software Image (SMI) or the Enhanced Multilayer Software Image (EMI). The SMI feature set includes
advanced QoS, rate-limiting, access control lists (ACLs), and basic static and routed information protocol (RIP)
routing functionality. The EMI provides a richer set of enterprise-class features including advanced hardware-based
IP unicast and multicast routing and the Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP). After initial deployment, the
EMI Upgrade Kit gives users the flexibility to upgrade to the EMI. The Catalyst 3550-12T and 3550-12G are only
available with the EMI.
Figure 1
Catalyst 3550 Series Switches
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