Cisco Systems 2960 manual Feature, Benefit, Superior Manageability, Catalyst desktop switches

Feature	Benefit
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.

•Switching Database Manager templates for security and QoS allow administrators to easily adjust memory allocation to the desired features based on deployment-specific requirements.

•VLAN trunks can be created from any port using standards-based 802.1q tagging.

•Up to 255 VLANs per switch or stack and up to 128 spanning-tree instances per switch are supported.

•Four thousand 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.

•IGMPv3 snooping provides fast client joins and leaves of multicast streams and limits bandwidth-intensive video traffic to only the requestors.

•Remote SPAN (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 four RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events).

•Layer 2 trace route eases troubleshooting by identifying the physical path that a packet takes from source to destination.

•All RMON groups are supported through a SPAN port, which permits traffic monitoring of a single port, a group of ports, or the entire stack from a single network analyzer or RMON probe.

•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; and 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T indication as well as switch-level status LEDs for system, redundant power supply, and bandwidth use provide a comprehensive and convenient visual management system.

Cisco Network	• Cisco Network Assistant is a no-charge, Windows-based application that simplifies the administration of
Assistant Software	networks of up to 250 users. It supports a wide range of Cisco Catalyst intelligent switches. With Cisco Network
	Assistant, users can manage Cisco Catalyst switches and launch the device managers of Cisco integrated
	services routers and Cisco Aironet WLAN access points.
	• The easy-to-use graphical interface provides both a topology map and front-panel view of the cluster
	and stacks.
	• Cisco AVVID (Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data) wizards need just a few user inputs to
	automatically configure the switch to optimally handle different types of traffic: voice, video, multicast, and high-
	priority data.
	• A security wizard is provided to restrict unauthorized access to applications, servers, and networks.
	• Upgrading the Cisco IOS Software on Cisco Catalyst switches is a simple matter of pointing and clicking, with
	one-click upgrades.
	• Cisco Network Assistant supports multilayer feature configurations such as routing protocols, ACLs, and QoS
	parameters.
	• Multidevice and multiport configuration capabilities allow administrators to save time by configuring features
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