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Table 2. Cisco Enhanced EtherSwitch Service Module Addresses Customer Needs
Customer Needs How Addressed by Cisco Enhanced EtherSwitch Service Module
Green IT
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Cisco EnergyWise technology
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Single power supply for Cisco
EtherSwitch device and router
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Cisco EnergyWise technology helps enable Cisco EtherSwitch devices to automatically reduce off-peak
use of PoE.
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The modules offer two to eight times lower power consumption than standalone switches.
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Because no additional rack space or power supply is needed, there is less to rack, stack, and cool.
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
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Scaling network infrastructure
across multiple sites
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Increasing costs of operating
multiple devices at the branch
office
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Maximizing IT resources
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An integrated switch solution lowers operations costs, simplifies troubleshooting, and enables businesses
to scale.
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Cisco Catalyst 2960 and Catalyst 3560-E software parity enables IT to certify and deploy the same
services at the main office and branch office.
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The modules offer lower mean time to repair (MTTR). One vendor means one support center to decrease
troubleshooting time and eliminate finger pointing among vendors.
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Cisco SMARTnet
®
support covers both integrated services routers and Cisco EtherSwitch devices.
Investment Protection
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Ensuring compatibility of your
network with future networks to
deliver leading technology
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The Cisco Enhanced EtherSwitch Service Module and Cisco Catalyst 2960 and Catalyst 3560-E features,
schedule, and roadmap are aligned to provide a consistent user experience and to ensure no new
hardware is required to support the latest innovations.
High Availability
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Minimizing downtime that affects
business operations
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Cisco Enhanced EtherSwitch Service Modules run their own Cisco IOS Software images and can be
upgraded independent of the host router image.
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A single-box solution simplifies remote management and improves services interoperability to help
ensure the highest reliability for all users.
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End-to-end testing for standards-based and innovative Cisco proprietary features provides superior
services interoperability and excellent value.
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The modules offer optional redundant power supplies, including an integrated redundant power system
(RPS) on the Cisco 3900 Series and external RPS 2300 support on the Cisco 2911 through Cisco 2951
Integrated Services Routers.
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Fewer components (for example, power supplies and fans) results in fewer failures and less downtime.
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Mean time between failure (MTBF) is at least two times higher than that for a standalone switch.
Scalability with High-Performance IP Routing for the LAN (ES3)
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Isolation of LAN traffic and route
between VLANs on the Cisco
Enhanced EtherSwitch Service
Module
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Cisco Express Forwarding hardware routing architecture delivers extremely high-performance IP routing
and promotes scalability.
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The modules offer inter-VLAN IP routing with full local Layer 3 switching between two or more VLANs.
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Traffic can be forwarded between service modules over the MGF without affecting the router CPU.
Cisco EnergyWise Technology
Cisco EnergyWise technology is an innovative architecture added to a large number of Cisco Catalyst switches, the
Cisco 2900 and 3900 Series Integrated Services Routers, and the Cisco ES3 Enhanced EtherSwitch Service
Modules to promote companywide sustainability by reducing energy consumption across an entire network
infrastructure.
Cisco EnergyWise technology encompasses a highly intelligent network-based approach to communicate messages
that measure and control energy between network devices and endpoints. The network discovers Cisco EnergyWise
manageable devices, monitors their power consumption, and takes action based on business rules to reduce power
consumption. The technology uses an innovative domain-naming system to query and summarize information from
large sets of devices, making it simpler than traditional network management capabilities. The management
interfaces of this technology allow facilities and network management applications to communicate with endpoints
and each other using the network as a unifying fabric. The management interface uses standard Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP) or Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to integrate Cisco and third-party management
systems.
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