Cisco выпустила новую линейку коммутаторов 2960-X

Cisco выпустила новые коммутаторы 2960-X, которые призваны заменить имеющиеся модели 2960. Общие характеристики модели представлены ниже: 

 Cisco Catalyst 2960-X switches feature:

• 24 or 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports with line-rate forwarding performance

• Gigabit Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) or 10G SFP+ uplinks

• FlexStack Plus for stacking of up to 8 switches with 80 Gbps of stack throughput (optional)

• Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) support with up to 740W of PoE budget

• Reduced power consumption and advanced energy management features

• USB and Ethernet management interfaces for simplified operations

• Application visibility and capacity planning with integrated NetFlow-Lite

• LAN Base or LAN Lite Cisco IOS^® software features

• Enhanced limited lifetime warranty (E-LLW) offering next-business-day hardware replacement

Cisco Catalyst 2960-XR models also offer:

• Power resiliency with optional dual field-replaceable power supplies

• IP Lite Cisco IOS^® software with dynamic routing and Layer 3 features

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Примечательно, что коммутаторы 2960-XR теперь имеют возможности маршрутизации (IOS IP Lite):

• IP unicast routing protocols (Static, Routing Information Protocol Version 1 [RIPv1], and RIPv2, RIPng are supported for small-network routing applications.

• Advanced IP unicast routing protocols (OSPF for Routed Access) are supported for load balancing and constructing scalable LANs. IPv6 routing (OSPFv3) is supported in hardware for maximum performance.

• Equal-cost routing facilitates Layer 3 load balancing and redundancy across the stack.

• Policy-based routing (PBR) allows superior control by facilitating flow redirection regardless of the routing protocol configured.

• Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP) and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) provides dynamic load balancing and failover for routed links.

• Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) for IP multicast is supported, including PIM sparse mode (PIM-SM), PIM dense mode (PIM-DM), PIM sparse-dense mode and Source Specific Multicast (SSM).

 Дополнительная полезная плюшка -возможность сбора в стек до восьми (8) устройств (модели XR).