Benefits of Migrating to Cisco® Catalyst® 2960-X and 2960 ...

Benefits of Migrating to Cisco? Catalyst? 2960-X and 2960-XR Switches

Feature Comparison

Trends

Features

Switching capacity Full line rate for all 48 ports Gigabit downlinks 1G/10G uplinks Scale/ Performance Stacking bandwidth

PoE/PoE+

Previous Access Switches

2950 (EOL) 13.6 Gbps

N/A N/A

2x1G

2960G (EOL) 32 Gbps

N/A

4x1G

2960 (EOL) 17.6 Gbps

N/A

2x1G or 4x1G

N/A

N/A

N/A

PoE upto

N/A

N/A

370W

2960-S 176 Gbps

2x10G or 4x1G 40 Gbps 4 members PoE/PoE+, up to 740W

Layer 3 dynamic routing (RIP1, OSPF2)

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

BYOD/ Mobility

IPv6 ready NetFlow Lite

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Cisco TrustSec with SXP3

N/A

N/A

N/A

Advanced Security

Flexible 802.1x authentication MACsec4 (hardware ready)

IPv6 First Hop Security

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Smart Install

N/A

N/A

Simplicity and SDN

Auto SmartPorts and Auto QoS

Cross-stack QoS

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

SDN/programmability ? Cisco onePK ready

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Green features

Energy Efficiency

? Switch hibernation

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

? Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)

1 RIP ? Routing Information Protocol 2 OSPF ? Open Shortest Path First Protocol 3 SXP ? Security Group Tag Exchange Protocol 4 MACsec ? IEEE Media Access Control Security Standard 5

Latest Access Switches

2960-X 216 Gbps

2960-XR 216 Gbps

Benefits

2x10G or 4x1G 80 Gbps 8 members PoE/PoE+, up to 740W

N/A

2x10G or 4x1G 80 Gbps 8 members PoE/PoE+, up to 740W

Support gigabit access growth for wired and wireless/802.11ac

Easy and rapid deployment of more IP endpoints, supported on all ports Convenience with Layer 2 and Layer 3 in a single switch Support more traffic through IP address scalability Superior user experience through application visibility and control Orchestrate role-based access to corporate resources

Enable port-based network access control

For encryption compliance

Protect against IPv6 address theft and malicious

attacks

Zero-touch configuration and Cisco IOS Software

updates when deploying new switches

Automatically configures interfaces based on the

type of device connected

Simplify operations by propagating QoS settings

consistently across the stack

Simplicity and business agility

Rapid ROI ? saved over 50% in annual energy

operating costs compared to the Industry

Average (Source: Miercom report)5

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