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Product Features and Benefits
Table 1 Product Features and Benefits
Feature Benefit
Availability/Scalability
High-Performance
IP Routing
• Cisco Express Forwarding(CEF)-based routing architecture performedin hardware to deliver
extremely high-performance IP routing.
• Support for basic IP unicast routing protocols (static, RIPv1, RIPv2) for small network routing
applications.
• Support for advanced IP unicast routing protocols (OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, BGPv4) for load
balancing and constructing scalable LANs – requires EMI.
• 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 – requires EMI.
• Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP) tunneling for interconnecting two
multicast-enabled networks across non-multicast networks—requires EMI.
• 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.
Superior
Redundancy for
Fault Backup
• Cisco UplinkFast/BackboneFast technologies ensure quick fail-over recovery enhancing
overall network stability and reliability.
• CrossStack UplinkFast (CSUF) technology provides increased redundancy and network
resiliency through fast spanning-tree convergence (less than two seconds) across a stack of
switches using GigaStack GBICs in an independent stack backplane cascaded configuration.
• IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) provides rapid convergence of the
spanning tree independent of spanning-tree timers.
• Supports Cisco HSRP to create redundant fail-safe routing topologies.
• Redundant stacking connections provide support for a redundant loopback connection for
top and bottom switches in an independent stack backplane cascaded configuration.
• Command switch redundancyenabled in the CMS Software allows customers to designate a
backup command switch that takes over cluster management functions if the primary
command switch fails.
• Provides unidirectional link detection (UDLD) and Aggressive UDLD for detecting and
disabling unidirectional links on fiber-optic interfaces caused by incorrect fiber-optic wiring
or port faults.
• Switch port Auto-recovery (or “errDisable”) automatically attempts to re-enable a link that
becomes disabled due to a network error.
• Support for Cisco’s optional Redundant Power System 300 (RPS 300 supports all Catalyst
3550 Switches except the Catalyst 3550-24 PWR) and/or the Redundant Power System 675
(RPS 675 supports all Catalyst 3550 Switches) that provides superior internal power source
redundancy for up to six Cisco networking devices resulting in improved fault tolerance and
network uptime.
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