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Cisco SLM248P 48-Port 10/100 + 2-Port Gigabit Smart
Switch: SFPs/PoE
Cisco Small Business Smart Switches
Cost-Effective, Secure Switching with Simplified Management and PoE for Your Growing
Business
Highlights
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Connects up to 48 devices - PCs, printers, wireless access points, and servers - to share
and transfer files and videos across your network
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Power over Ethernet easily and cost-effectively powers wireless access points, video
cameras, and other network-connected endpoints
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Strong security protects network traffic to keep unauthorized users off the network
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Basic QoS helps ensure a consistent network experience and supports networked
applications including voice, video, and data storage
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Easy-to-use Web browser interface makes installation quick and effortless
Figure 1. Cisco SLM248P 48-Port 10/100 + 2-Port Gigabit Smart Switch: SFPs/PoE
Product Overview
The Cisco
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Small Business Smart Switches are cost-effective switching solutions that are ideal for
small businesses, the network edge, or workgroups within larger organizations. These easy-to-
install, high-speed switches offer many of the same quality of service (QoS) and security features
found in more expensive full Layer 2 managed switches, but without their complexity. The Cisco
SLM248P 48-Port 10/100 + 2-Port Gigabit Smart Switch (Figure 1) offers forty-eight 10/100 copper
ports with two shared Gigabit copper or optical Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) uplink
interfaces for connecting the switch to the core network. The simplified user interface is an intuitive
management tool, enabling you to quickly utilize the comprehensive feature set of the switch for a
better-optimized network.
The Cisco SLM248P includes numerous QoS features to help ensure that traffic is prioritized
properly to deliver the best possible user experience for real-time applications such as voice and
video or bandwidth-intensive graphic/video file uploads or downloads. With its Internet Group
Management Protocol (IGMP) snooping feature, the switch limits IP multicast traffic (such as real-
time presentations, video conferences, and online gaming) to only the ports that have requested it,
enabling the rest of the network to operate at peak efficiency. Additional QoS capabilities such as
IEEE 802.1p priority tagging, differentiated services code point (DSCP), and four hardware queues
