Feature

Ease of use and deployment

Benefit

•Cisco Express Setup:

–Simpliﬁes initial conﬁguration of a switch via a Web browser, eliminating the need for more complex terminal emulation programs and CLI knowledge.

–Reduces the cost of deployment by enabling less-skilled personnel to set up switches quickly and simply.

•Auto-conﬁguration eases deployment of switches in the network by automatically conﬁguring multiple switches across a network using a bootp server.

•Autosensing on each port detects the speed of the attached device and automatically conﬁgures the port for 10- or 100-Mbps operation, easing the deployment of the switch in mixed-speed environments.

•Auto-negotiating on all ports automatically selects half- or full-duplex transmission mode to optimize bandwidth.

•Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) allows the creation of Ethernet channeling with devices that conform to IEEE 802.3ad. This is similar to Cisco EtherChannel and PagP.

•Cisco Discovery Protocol versions 1 and 2 enable a CiscoWorks network management station to automatically discover the switch in a network topology.

•Cisco VTP supports dynamic VLANs and dynamic trunk conﬁguration across all switches.

•Support for dynamic VLAN assignment through implementation of VLAN Membership Policy Server (VMPS) client functions provides ﬂexibility in assigning ports to VLANs.

•Voice VLAN simpliﬁes telephony installations by keeping voice trafﬁc on a separate VLAN for easier network administration and troubleshooting.

•The default conﬁguration stored in Flash memory ensures that the switch can be quickly connected to the network and can pass trafﬁc with minimal user intervention.

Cisco Systems, Inc.

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