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Cisco 300 Series Switches Cisco Small Business: Easy-To-Use Managed Switches That Provide The Ideal Combin Wits
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Business Applications
Whether you need a basic high-performance network to connect employee computers or a solution to deliver data, voice,
and video services, the Cisco 300 Series offers a solution to meet your needs. Possible deployment scenarios include:
● Secure desktop connectivity: Cisco 300 Series Switches can simply and securely connect employees
working in small offices with each other and with all of the servers, printers, and other devices they use. High
performance and reliable connectivity helps speed file transfers and data processing, improves network
uptime, and keeps your employees connected and productive.
● Secure wireless connectivity: Cisco 300 Series Switches allow employees to work productively from
conference rooms and common areas, collaborate in any office, and access business applications from
wherever they are. Gigabit Ethernet connectivity helps ensure that your employees have the bandwidth and
performance they need to make the most of mobile productivity. And with embedded security, your
employees can work with confidence, knowing that only authorized users can access applications and
network devices.
● Unified communications: As a managed network solution, the Cisco 300 Series provides the performance
and advanced traffic-handling intelligence you need to deliver all communications and data over a single
network. Cisco offers a complete portfolio of IP telephony and other unified communications products
designed for small businesses. Cisco 300 Series Switches have been rigorously tested to help ensure easy
integration and full compatibility with these and other products, providing a complete small business solution.
● Highly secure guest connectivity. Cisco 300 Series Switches let you extend highly secure network
connectivity to guests in a variety of settings, such as a hotel, an office waiting room, or any other area open to
nonemployee users. Using powerful but easy-to-configure security and traffic segmentation capabilities, you can
isolate your vital business traffic from guest services and keep guests’ network sessions private from each other.
● High performance and reliability: Cisco 300 Series Switches have been rigorously tested to deliver the high
availability and performance you expect from a Cisco switch. The solutions speed up file transfer times and
improve slow, sluggish networks, while keeping your vital business applications available and preventing
costly downtime. As a managed switching solution, the Cisco 300 Series also gives you the flexibility to
manage and prioritize high-bandwidth traffic such as voice. That means you can empower your employees
with state-of-the-art communication and productivity solutions, without draining the performance of your other
business applications.
● Fast, easy setup and configuration: Cisco 300 Series Switches are designed to be easy to use and
manage by small businesses and the partners who serve them. The included device manager software
provides an intuitive, web-based interface to simplify setup, security, and quality of service (QoS) traffic
prioritization, allowing even users without IT expertise to configure the switch in minutes. Cisco also provides
a utility that works through a simple toolbar on the user’s web browser to discover Cisco devices in the
network and display basic information, such as serial numbers and IP addresses, to aid in the configuration
and deployment of Cisco Small Business products. For more information, and to download the utility, please
visit www.cisco.com/go/sb_toolbar. These switches use Cisco Discovery Protocol to automatically detect all
the devices connected to your network, and then automatically configure themselves for the appropriate
connectivity and security. For more advanced capabilities and hands-on control, simple-to-use graphical tools
such as Cisco Smartports provide preset options for configuring each port on a switch, based on Cisco best
practices and pretested configurations. Although the Cisco 300 Series is designed to be deployed without
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using a command-line interface (CLI), Cisco Textview will be available for those who prefer to use text-based
configuration.* Together, these features reduce the time your staff must devote to network deployment,
management, and troubleshooting.
*Cisco Discovery Protocol, Smartports, and Textview will be available in the next firmware release.
● Strong security: The Cisco 300 Series Switches provide a high level of security and gi
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power use to protect the environment and reduce energy costs, without compromising performance. Power-
saving features include:
◦ The latest application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), using low-power 65-nanometer technology
(these chipsets allow for lower power consumption and thinner, more efficient designs)
◦ Automatic power shutoff on PoE ports when a link is down
◦ Embedded intelligence to adjust signal strength based on cable length
◦ Fanless design in most models, which reduces power consumption, increases reliability, and provides
quieter operation
● Expansion ports: The Cisco 300 Series provides more ports per Gigabit Ethernet switch than traditional
switch models, giving you more flexibility to connect and empower your business. Gigabit Ethernet models
feature 28- and 52-port switches, versus traditional devices that offer 20 or 44 ports with four shared ports
giving you more value. The Cisco 300 Series also offers mini gigabit interface converter (mini-GBIC)
expansion slots that give you the option to add fiber-optic or Gigabit Ethernet uplink connectivity to the switch.
With the ability to increase the connectivity range of the switches, you have more flexibility to design your
network around your unique business environment, and to easily connect switches on different floors or
across the business.
● Multiple languages: The Cisco 300 Series is available in seven languages: English, French, German, Italian,
Spanish, Japanese, and simplified Chinese. All product user interfaces and documentation are translated,
giving you the ability to select your preferred language.
● Peace of mind and investment protection: Cisco 300 Series Switches offer the reliable performance,
investment protection, and peace of mind you expect from a Cisco switch. When you invest in the Cisco 300
Series, you gain the benefit of:
◦ Cisco limited lifetime warranty with next business day advance replacement (where available)
◦ Cisco Small Business Investment Protection program, which lets you upgrade your Cisco 300 Series to
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another Cisco Small Business or Cisco Catalyst switch in the future and receive credit for the value of the
switch (available only in the United States and Canada)
◦ Rigorous testing to help ensure easy integration and compatibility with other Cisco networking and
communications products, including the complete Cisco Small Business portfolio
● Service and Support: Cisco 300 Series Switches are backed by the Cisco Small Business Support Service,
which provides affordable peace-of-mind coverage. This subscription-based service helps you protect your
investment and derive maximum value from Cisco Small Business products. Delivered by Cisco and backed
by your trusted partner, this comprehensive service includes software updates, access to the Cisco Small
Business Support Center, and extends technical service to three years.
Cisco Small Business products are supported by professionals in Cisco Small Business Support Center
locations worldwide who are specifically trained to understand your needs. The Cisco Small Business
Support Community, an online forum, enables you to collaborate with your peers and reach Cisco technical
experts for support information.
● Cisco Limited Lifetime Hardware Warranty: Cisco 300 Series Switches offer a limited lifetime hardware
warranty with next business day advance replacement (where available, otherwise same day ship) and a
limited lifetime warranty for fans and power supplies. In addition, Cisco offers software application updates for
bug fixes for the warranty term, and telephone technical support at no charge for the first 12 months following
the date of purchase. To download software updates, go to: www.cisco.com/cisco/web/download/index.html.
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Product warranty terms and other information applicable to Cisco products are available at
www.cisco.com/go/warranty.
Product Specifications
Table 1 gives the product specifications for the Cisco 300 Series Switches.
Feature Description
Performance
Layer 2 Switching
Port grouping Support for IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
● Up to 8 groups
● Up to 8 ports per group with 16 candidate ports for each (dynamic) 802.3ad link aggregation
VLAN Support for up to 256 VLANs simultaneously (out of 4096 VLAN IDs)
Port-based and 802.1Q tag-based VLANs
MAC-based VLAN
Management VLAN
Private VLAN Edge (PVE), also known as protected ports, with multiple uplinks
Guest VLAN
Unauthenticated VLAN
Voice VLAN Voice traffic is automatically assigned to a voice-specific VLAN and treated with appropriate levels of QoS
Generic VLAN Registration Protocol Protocols for automatically propagating and configuring VLANs in a bridged domain
(GVRP)/Generic Attribute Registration
Protocol (GARP)
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Relay of DHCP traffic to DHCP server in different VLAN. Works with DHCP Option 82
(DHCP) Relay at Layer 2
Internet Group Management Protocol IGMP limits bandwidth-intensive multicast traffic to only the requesters; supports 256 multicast groups
(IGMP) versions 1, 2, and 3 snooping (source-specific multicasting is also supported)
IGMP Querier IGMP querier is used to support a Layer 2 multicast domain of snooping switches in the absence of a
multicast router.
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Feature Description
Layer 3
User Datagram Protocol (UDP) relay Relay of broadcast information across Layer 3 domains for application discovery or relaying of BootP/DHCP
packets
Security
Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol SSH secures Telnet traffic to and from the switch; SSH v1 and v2 are supported
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) SSL support: Encrypts all HTTPS traffic, allowing highly secure access to the browser-based management
GUI in the switch
IEEE 802.1X 802.1X: RADIUS authentication and accounting, MD5 hash; guest VLAN; unauthenticated VLAN,
(Authenticator role) single/multiple host mode and single/multiple sessions
Supports time-based 802.1X
Dynamic VLAN assignment
Layer 2 isolation Private VLAN Edge PVE (also known as protected ports) provides Layer 2 isolation between devices in the same VLAN,
(PVE) with community VLAN supports multiple uplinks
Port security Locks MAC addresses to ports, and limits the number of learned MAC addresses
Congestion avoidance A TCP congestion avoidance algorithm is required to minimize and prevent global TCP loss synchronization.
Quality of Service
Class of service Port based; 802.1p VLAN priority based; IPv4/v6 IP precedence/type of service (ToS)/DSCP based;
Differentiated Services (DiffServ); classification and re-marking ACLs, trusted QoS
Rate limiting Ingress policer; egress shaping and rate control; per VLAN, per port, and flow based
Standards
Standards IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T Ethernet, IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet, IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T
Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.3ad LACP, IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.3x Flow Control, IEEE
802.1D (STP, GARP, and GVRP),IEEE 802.1Q/p VLAN, IEEE 802.1w RSTP, IEEE 802.1s Multiple STP,
IEEE 802.1X Port Access Authentication, IEEE 802.3af, IEEE 802.3at, RFC 768, RFC 783, RFC 791,
RFC 792, RFC 793, RFC 813, RFC 879, RFC 896, RFC 826, RFC 854, RFC 855, RFC 856, RFC 858,
RFC 894, RFC 919, RFC 922, RFC 920, RFC 950, RFC 951, RFC 1042, RFC 1071, RFC 1123, RFC
1141, RFC 1155, RFC 1157, RFC 1350, RFC 1533, RFC 1541, RFC 1542, RFC 1624, RFC 1700, RFC
1867, RFC 2030, RFC 2616, RFC 2131, RFC 2132, RFC 3164, RFC 3411, RFC 3412, RFC 3413, RFC
3414, RFC 3415, RFC 2576, RFC 4330, RFC 1213, RFC 1215, RFC 1286, RFC 1442, RFC 1451, RFC
1493, RFC 1573, RFC 1643, RFC 1757, RFC 1907, RFC 2011, RFC 2012, RFC 2013, RFC 2233, RFC
2618, RFC 2665, RFC 2666, RFC 2674, RFC 2737, RFC 2819, RFC 2863, RFC 1157, RFC 1493, RFC
1215, RFC 3416
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Feature Description
IPv6
Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Deliver IPv6 multicast packets only to the required receivers
snooping
IPv6 applications Web/SSL, Telnet server/SSH, ping, traceroute, Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP), Trivial File Transfer
Protocol (TFTP), SNMP, RADIUS, syslog, DNS client, protocol-based VLANs
Management
Web user interface Built-in switch configuration utility for easy browser-based device configuration (HTTP/HTTPS). Supports
configuration, system dashboard, system maintenance, and monitoring
SNMP SNMP versions 1, 2c, and 3 with support for traps, and SNMP version 3 user-based security model (USM)
Remote Monitoring (RMON) Embedded RMON software agent supports 4 RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events) for
enhanced traffic management, monitoring, and analysis
IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack Coexistence of both protocol stacks to ease migration
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Feature Description
Port mirroring Traffic on a port can be mirrored to another port for analysis with a network analyzer or RMON probe. Up to 8
source ports can be mirrored to one destination port. A single session is supported.
VLAN mirroring Traffic from a VLAN can be mirrored to a port for analysis with a network analyzer or RMON probe. Up to 8
source VLANs can be mirrored to one destination port. A single session is supported.
DHCP (Options 66, 67, 82, 129, and DHCP Options facilitate tighter control from a central point (DHCP server) to obtain IP address, auto-
150) configuration (with configuration file download), and DHCP relay,
Text-editable config files Config files can be edited with a text editor and downloaded to another switch, facilitating easier mass
deployment
Other management Traceroute; single IP management; HTTP/HTTPS; SSH; RADIUS; port mirroring; TFTP upgrade; DHCP
client; BOOTP; SNTP; Xmodem upgrade; cable diagnostics; ping; syslog; Telnet client (SSH secure support)
Power Efficiency
Energy Detect Automatically turns off power off on Gigabit Ethernet RJ-45 port when detecting link down
Active mode is resumed without loss of any packets when the switch detects the link up
Cable length detection Adjusts the signal strength based on the cable length. Reduces the power consumption for cables shorter
than 10m.
General
Discovery
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) LLDP allows the switch to advertise its identification, configuration, and capabilities to neighboring devices
(802.1ab) with LLDP-MED extensions that store the data in a MIB. LLDP-MED is an enhancement to LLDP that adds the extensions needed for IP
phones.
Cisco Discovery Protocol* The switch advertises itself using the Cisco Discovery Protocol.
IEEE 802.3af PoE delivered over any of Maximum power of 15.4W to any 10/100 or Gigabit Ethernet base port. The total power available for PoE per
the RJ-45 ports within the listed power switch is as follows:
budgets
Power Dedicated Number of Ports That
PID Model Name to PoE Support PoE
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Feature Description
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Feature Description
Cabling type Unshielded twisted pair (UTP) Category 5 or better for 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX; UTP Category 5 Ethernet or
better for 1000BASE-T
Flash 16 MB
Packet buffer All numbers are aggregate across all ports as the buffers are dynamically shared:
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Feature Description
Environmental
Certification UL (UL 60950), CSA (CSA 22.2), CE mark, FCC Part 15 (CFR 47) Class A
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Feature Description
Acoustic Noise and MTBF PID (Ordering P/N) Model Name FAN (Number) Acoustic Noise MTBF @40C (hr)
Warranty Limited lifetime with next business day advance replacement (where available)
Package Contents
● Cisco 300-series Ethernet Switch
● Power Cord (Power Adapter for 8-port SKUs)
● Mounting Hardware
● Serial Cable
● CD-ROM with user documentation (PDF) included
● Quick Start Guide
Minimum Requirements
● Web browser: Mozilla Firefox version 2.5 or later; Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 or later
● Category 5 Ethernet network cable
● TCP/IP, network adapter, and network operating system (such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X) installed on each computer in
the network
Ordering Information
Table 2 provides ordering information for the Cisco 300 Series Switches.
Fast Ethernet
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Gigabit Ethernet
*Each combo mini-GBIC port has one 10/100/1000 Ethernet port and one mini-GBIC/SFP Gigabit Ethernet slot, with one port active at a time.
MFE Transceivers
MFEBX1 100BASE-BX-20U SFP transceiver for single-mode fiber, 1310 nm wavelength, support up to 20 km
MFELX1 100BASE-LX SFP transceiver, for single-mode fiber, 1310 nm wavelength, support up to 2 km
MFEFX1 100BASE-FX SFP transceiver, for multimode fiber, 1310 nm wavelength, support up to 10 km
MGE Transceivers
MGBBX1 1000BASE-BX-20U SFP transceiver, for single-mode fiber, 1310 nm wavelength, support up to 40 km
MGBLH1 1000BASE-LH SFP transceiver, for single-mode fiber, 1310 nm wavelength, support up to 40 km
MGBLX1 1000BASE-LX SFP transceiver, for single-mode fiber, 1310 nm wavelength, support up to 10 km
MGBSX1 1000BASE-SX SFP transceiver, for multimode fiber, 850 nm wavelength, support up to 550 m
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To learn about other products and solutions in the Cisco Small Business portfolio, visit
www.cisco.com/go/smallbusiness.
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