Description
Maximizing Efficiency and Flexibility
The CS-E300-K9 Cisco Edge 300 Ethernet 4 Ports Switch is designed to provide high-performance, flexible, and reliable networking solutions for small to medium-sized businesses. To maximize efficiency and flexibility of this switch, there are several features and best practices that can be implemented:
- Quality of Service (QoS): The switch supports QoS, which allows you to prioritize network traffic based on different types of traffic, such as voice, video, or data. This ensures that mission-critical applications receive the necessary bandwidth, while non-critical applications do not consume too much bandwidth.
- Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP): LACP allows you to bundle multiple physical ports together to form a single logical link, providing increased bandwidth and redundancy. This feature allows you to increase the bandwidth available to your devices, and it also provides redundancy in case one of the links in the bundle fails.
- VLANs: The switch supports VLANs, which allows you to segment your network into multiple broadcast domains. This feature allows you to create separate networks for different departments, customers, or applications, and it also increases security by isolating different networks from each other.
- Port mirroring: Port mirroring allows you to mirror traffic from one port to another, allowing you to monitor and analyze network traffic. This feature can be useful for troubleshooting and monitoring network performance.
- Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE): The switch supports Energy Efficient Ethernet, which reduces power consumption during periods of low network activity. This feature helps to reduce power consumption and costs, and it also helps to reduce the environmental impact of the switch.
- Remote Management: The switch can be managed remotely using the web interface, SNMP, Telnet, SSH, and other management protocols, which allows you to manage the switch from anywhere, at any time.
- Firmware updates: Regularly updating the switch firmware to the latest version can improve the performance, security, and functionality of the switch.
- Monitoring and reporting: Regularly monitoring and reporting on the switch’s performance and network usage can help you identify potential issues and optimize the switch’s configuration for your specific needs.
Network Management and Security Features
The CS-E300-K9 Cisco Edge 300 Ethernet switch supports several network management and security features, including:
- Command Line Interface (CLI): Provides a command-line interface for configuration and management of the switch.
- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP): Supports SNMP for remote management of the switch, allowing administrators to monitor and manage the switch from a central location.
- Quality of Service (QoS): Supports QoS to prioritize different types of network traffic, ensuring that mission-critical applications receive the necessary bandwidth and network resources.
- Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP): Supports LACP for dynamic link aggregation, allowing administrators to combine multiple physical links into a single logical link for increased bandwidth and redundancy.
- Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP): Supports STP and RSTP to prevent network loops and ensure a loop-free network topology.
- Access Control Lists (ACLs): Supports ACLs to secure the switch and its network, allowing administrators to define access control policies to control network access.
- Advanced security features: The switch supports advanced security features such as secure management protocols (SSH, SSL, IPsec), and user authentication (local authentication, RADIUS, TACACS+, and LDAP) to secure the switch and its network.
- Automated software updates: Supports automated software updates to ensure that the switch is running the latest software version with the latest security and performance features.
By supporting these network management and security features, the CS-E300-K9 Cisco Edge 300 Ethernet switch provides a secure, reliable, and highly manageable network infrastructure.
Quality of Service (QoS) Capabilities
The CS-E300-K9 Cisco Edge 300 Ethernet 4 Ports Switch has a number of Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities that allow you to prioritize network traffic based on different types of traffic, such as voice, video, or data. This ensures that mission-critical applications receive the necessary bandwidth, while non-critical applications do not consume too much bandwidth.
- Traffic prioritization: The switch supports different levels of traffic prioritization, such as Layer 2 priority queuing and Layer 3 weighted fair queuing, which allows you to prioritize different types of traffic based on their importance.
- Class of Service (CoS): The switch supports Class of Service (CoS) which allows you to classify and mark different types of traffic based on their importance. This feature allows you to create different service levels for different types of traffic, such as voice, video, or data.
- Quality of Service (QoS) policies: The switch supports Quality of Service (QoS) policies, which allow you to set up different rules and actions for different types of traffic. For example, you can set up a rule to prioritize all voice traffic, or to limit the bandwidth of all P2P traffic.
- Low Latency Queuing (LLQ): The switch supports Low Latency Queuing (LLQ), which allows you to prioritize delay-sensitive traffic such as voice and video, to minimize jitter and delay.
- Shaped Round Robin (SRR): The switch supports Shaped Round Robin (SRR) which allows you to set up different classes of service with guaranteed minimum bandwidth, and also assign best-effort bandwidth to other classes.
- Congestion Management: The switch supports several congestion management techniques like tail drop, weighted random early detection (WRED), and class-based WRED. These techniques help to prevent network congestion and ensure that important traffic is delivered with minimal delay and jitter.
General Information
- Manufacturer Cisco
- Manufacturer Part Number CS-E300-K9
- Brand Name Cisco
- Product Line Edge
- Product Series 300
- Product Name Edge 300 Ethernet Switch
- Product Type Ethernet Switch
Interfaces/Ports
- Total Number of Network Ports 4
- Token Ring Port No
- LRE Port No
- Uplink Port Yes
- Bypass No
- Modular No
- USB Yes
- Stack Port No
- Number of Network (RJ-45) Ports 4
Media & Performance
- Media Type Supported Twisted Pair
- Ethernet Technology Gigabit Ethernet
- Network Technology 10/100/1000Base-T
Network & Communication
- Layer Supported 2
Memory
- Standard Memory 2 GB
- Memory Technology DDR3 SDRAM
- Flash Memory 2 GB
Reliability
- MTBF 100000 Hours
Power Description
- PoE (RJ-45) Port No
- Input Voltage 12 V DC
- Power Source AC Adapter