These are fully managed 24- or 48-port 10/100 Layer 3 wire-speed Fast Ethernet switches with 4 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks and full management features. The series has Layer 2/Layer 3 switching with advanced Layer 3 routing using static routes, RIP, OSPF BGP, and multicast (PIM) routing. Fully IPv6 capable, with advanced IPv6/IPv4 routing, this series delivers a smooth transition from IPv4 to IPv6.

Quality of Service (QoS)
• Broadcast control: allows limitation of broadcast traffic rate to cut down on unwanted network broadcast traffic

Management
• Friendly port names: allow assignment of descriptive names to ports

Connectivity
• Auto-MDIX: automatically adjusts for straight-through or crossover cables on all 10/100 and 10/100/1000 ports

Performance
• Nonblocking architecture: up to 17.6 Gbps nonblocking switching fabric provides wire-speed switching with up to 13.1 million pps throughput

Resiliency and high availability
• Separate data and control paths: keeps control separated from services and keeps service processing isolated; increases security and performance

Layer 2 switching
• 16K MAC address table: provides access to many Layer 2 devices

Layer 3 services
• Address Resolution Protocol (ARP): determines the MAC address of another IP host in the same subnet