This product is almost the same with the WS-C290X-48FPS-L Ethernet switch since they are all Catalyst 2960-S series. This product has been designed to provide a highly secure and easy to use Ethernet switch for various business operations. It comes with a new Flexstack switch stacking capabilities with about 10 Gigabyte connectivity as well as Power over Ethernet (POE). It has been designed for mid-market, enterprise and branch office networks to provide them with a reduced cost of ownership. This product has been designed to come with about 48 ports, a gigabit Ethernet port, as well as interfaces and ports.
As mentioned earlier, this product is similar to the WS-C290X-48FPS-L product and they happen to share certain features which include;
- A flex stack plus that has been incorporated to enable you to stack up to 8 switches
- It has the Power of Ethernet (POE) support with an amazing budget of 750 Watts of POE
- It has been integrated with application capacity and planning with NetFlow-Lite
- It has been designed with the Ethernet and USB management interfaces to enable businesses to handle certain simplified operations
- It has been designed to reduce power consumption in the process helping these energy-focused businesses to save money that ordinarily would have been spent on power consumption.
- It has been designed with 24 port POE switch that can be deployed for use outside the wiring closet.
- It has a forward rate of 77.4 Mbps and a switching throughput of 176 Gbps
- It has five number of expansion slots as well as 2 layer support
- It has a standard memory of 128MB, flash memory of 64MB, and a DRAM memory technology.
Specifications
- It is a LAN base feature set
- It has a humidity range of 10 to 95% of non-condensing
- It supports Power over Ethernet at the same time having a redundant power supply
- It has quite a number of protocols which include; Syslog, CLI, RMON, DHCP, SNMPV3, VLAN, etc
- Unlike the other product, this Ethernet power source can be managed.
Benefits
Some of the benefits of this product include but are definitely not limited to these;
- It saves cost; this is one of the most profound advantages of this product. Prior to this time, most businesses have had to suffer from the increased cost of running various operations due to the increasing power consumption level. This product has been designed specifically to put an end to this by offering individuals and businesses the opportunity to carry out certain operations without paying heavily. It makes use of lower power, thus, saving cost
- It is safe; to reduce threat, this product has been designed with certain security features that work together to mitigate risk. Users will have to authenticate on different VLANs and this helps in the security of the network.
Downsides
There are currently no downsides to making use of this energy-focused product.
Recommendation
This is an ideal product that has been designed to change how businesses operate. It seeks to offer them an opportunity to save more money.
