Cisco Systems IE3010 Ease-of-Deployment and Ease-of-Use Features, Performance Features

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Cisco IE 3010 Switch Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 1 Overview
Features
Ease-of-Deployment and Ease-of-Use Features
• Express Setup for quickly configuring a switch for the first time with basic IP inf ormation, contact
information, switch and Telnet passwords, and Simple Network Management Protocol (SN MP)
information through a browser-based program. For more information about Exp ress Setup, see the
getting started guide.
• User-defined and Cisco-default Smartports macros for creating custom switch configurations for
simplified deployment across the network.
• An embedded device manager GUI for configuring and monitoring a single switch through a web
browser. For information about launching the device manager, see the getting started guide. For more
information about the device manager, see the switch online help.
• Switch clustering technology for
– Unified configuration, monitoring, authentication, and software upgrade of multiple,
cluster-capable switches, regardless of their geographic proximity and interconnec tion media,
including Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Fast EtherChannel, small form-factor pluggable (SFP)
modules, Gigabit Ethernet, and Gigabit EtherChannel connections. For a list of cluster-capable
switches, see the release notes.
– Automatic discovery of candidate switches and creation of clusters of up to 16 switches that can
be managed through a single IP address.
– Extended discovery of cluster candidates that are not directly co nnected to the command switch.
Performance Features
• Cisco EnergyWise manages the energy usage of power over Ethernet (PoE) entities.
For more information, see the Cisco EnergyWise Version 2 Configuration Guide on Cisco.com.
• Autosensing of port speed and autonegotiation of duplex mode on all switch ports for optimizing
bandwidth
• Automatic-medium-dependent interface crossover (auto-MDIX) capability on 10/100/1000 Mb/s
interfaces and on 10/100/1000 BASE-TX SFP module interfaces that enables the interface to
automatically detect the required cable connection type (straight-through or crossover) and to
configure the connection appropriately
• Support for up to 1546 bytes routed frames, up to 9000 bytes for fra mes that are bridged in hardware,
and up to 2000 bytes for frames that are bridged by software
• IEEE 802.3x flow control on all ports (the switch does not send pause frames)
• EtherChannel for enhanced fault tolerance and for providi ng up to 8 Gb/s (Gigabit EtherChannel)
or 800 Mb/s (Fast EtherChannel) full-duplex bandwidth among switches, routers, and servers
• Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP) and Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) for automatic
creation of EtherChannel links
• Per-port storm control for preventing broadcast, multicast, and unicast storms
• Port blocking on forwarding unknown Layer 2 unknown unicast, multicast, and bridged broadcast
traffic
• Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP) server support and Internet Gr oup Management
Protocol (IGMP) snooping for IGMP Versions 1, 2, and 3: