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• Support for 512 policers on ingress and 512 policers on egress configured as aggregate or individual
• Shaping and sharing output queue management
• Dynamic Buffer Limiting (DBL): Advanced congestion avoidance
• No performance penalty for granular QoS functions
Predictable Performance
• 96 Gbps switching fabric
• Layer 2 hardware forwarding at 72 Mpps
• Layer 3 hardware-based IP Cisco Express Forwarding routing at 72 Mpps
• Layer 4 TCP or User Datagram Protocol (UDP) hardware-based filtering at 72 Mpps
• No performance penalty with advanced Layer 3 and 4 services enabled
• Software-based learning at a sustained rate of 500 hosts per second
• Support for 32,768 MAC addresses
• Support for 32,000 entries in routing table (shared between unicast and multicast)
• Support for 512 ingress policers and 512 egress policers
• Support for 32,000 ACL and QoS entries
• Scalability to 2048 virtual ports (VLAN port instances)
• Scalability to 8000 IGMP snooping entries
• Scalability to 1500 STP instances
• Bandwidth aggregation up to 16 Gbps through Cisco Gigabit EtherChannel technology
• Hardware-based wire-speed multicast management
• Hardware-based wire-speed ACLs
Comprehensive Management
• Manageable through CiscoWorks Windows network-management software on a per-port and per-switch basis, providing a common management
interface for Cisco routers, switches, and hubs
• Manageable through Cisco Network Assistant
• SNMPv1, v2, and v3 instrumentation, delivering comprehensive in-band management
• Command-line interface (CLI)-based management console to provide detailed out-of-band management
• Remote Monitoring (RMON) software agent to support four RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events) for enhanced traffic
management, monitoring, and analysis
• Support for all nine RMON groups through the use of a Cisco SwitchProbe
®
analyzer (Switched Port Analyzer [SPAN]) port, which permits
traffic monitoring of a single port, a group of ports, or the entire switch from a single network analyzer or RMON probe
• Analysis support, including ingress port, egress port, and VLAN SPAN
• Layer 2 traceroute
• Remote SPAN (RSPAN)
• Smartports macros
• SPAN ACL filtering
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client autoconfiguration
• IfIndex persistence
• HTTPS
• Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR)
• MAC Address Notification
