Standard Features
Performance
Wire speed switching on sixteen internal 1Gb ports
Wire Speed switching on four external 10/100/1000BASE-T ports. (Two of these ports can be used
as cross-connects to provide failover protection)
Wire speed switching on four external 10/100/1000 SFP based ports that can be configured in
addition to the four10/100/1000BASE-T ports to support Fiber SX/LX SFP modules from Cisco
Systems
Two external 10Gb X2 based ports that support SR, LR, LRM and CX4 modules (Cisco Catalyst Blade
Switch 3120X only)
Two 64Gb stacking ports
One external console port
Management
CiscoWorks Software that includes multilayer feature configurations such as routing protocols,
ACLs, and QoS parameters
Compatible with Cisco Network Assistant
Supports both Embedded Events Manager (EEM) and Generic On-line Diagnostics (GOLD)
IOS CLI support providing a common user interface and command set with all Cisco routers and Cisco
Catalyst desktop switches
The Catalyst Blade Switch 3120 series supports an embedded Remote Monitoring (RMON) software
agent for enhanced traffic management, monitoring and analysis
Security
VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network is a logical network topology configured on top of a physical
network topology which conserves bandwidth and improves security by limiting traffic to specific
groups of devices
Supports Cisco's Identity-Based Networking Services (IBNS) which prevents unauthorized network
access and insures that users get only their designated privileges
Compatible with Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) so that user security profiles and
authentication follow the user regardless of where they connect on the network
Access Control Lists (ACL's) are maintained in hardware for maximum performance and can be used
to guard against denial-of-service and other attacks
802.1x Port Security recognizes the MAC address of the device connecting to it and will set rights or
limitations based on predefined security thresholds
Stacking
Up to nine 3120 switches can be combined into a single virtual stack.
Switches can be managed as a single virtual switch with a single IP address and single routing
domain.
64 Gb stacking fabric provides flexible and redundant ring architecture eliminating any single point
of failure.
QuickSpecs
Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3120 for HP
Standard Features
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