Build a Home Lab Part Six - Cisco Catalyst 3550 Ethernet Switch
This is Part Six of the "Build A Home Lab" series. If you missed Parts One through Five, you can scroll to the bottom of this page and click on the links to view these.
As most of you know by now, the Cisco Catalyst 3550 Ethernet Switch is the switch that is now being used in the CCIE lab. As a matter of fact, two of them. So, this section of the "Build A Home Lab" series will go over these switches. Many of you may have already seen the information presented here because we took it from the Cisco website and from other free websites.
The Cisco Catalyst 3550 Series Intelligent Ethernet Switch is a line of stackable, multilayer switches that provide high availability, quality of service (QoS), and security to enhance network operations. With a range of Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet configurations, the Cisco Catalyst 3550 Series is a powerful option for enterprise and metro access applications.
Customers can deploy industry-leading intelligent services, such as advanced quality of service (QoS), rate-limiting, Cisco security access control lists, multicast management, and high-performance IP routing--while maintaining the simplicity of traditional LAN switching. Embedded in the Catalyst 3550 Series is the Cisco Cluster Management Suite (CMS) Software, which allows users to simultaneously configure and troubleshoot multiple Catalyst desktop switches using a standard Web browser. Cisco CMS Software provides new configuration wizards that greatly simplify the implementation of converged applications and network-wide services. The models that currently belong to this Cisco product series are as follows:
The Cisco Catalyst 3550 switch has been introduced to replace the aging Catalyst 3500XL Layer 2 switch that previously was part of Cisco抯 answer to the access layer switch market. The Catalyst 3550 and 2950 switches have replaced the Catalyst 3500 XL switches. The end-of-sale for the Catalyst 3512 XL, 3524 XL, and 3548 XL was July 27, 2002. This end-of-sale announcement does not include the Catalyst 3524-PWR XL and the 3508G XL.
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