Cisco 300 Series Switches
The Cisco 300 Series, part of the Cisco Small Business line of network soluti
ons, is a portfolio of
affordable managed switches that provides a reliable foundation for your business network. These
switches deliver the features you need to improve the availability of your critical business applications,
protect your sensitive inform
ation, and optimize your network bandwidth to deliver information and
applications more effectively. Easy to set up and use, the Cisco 300 Series provides the ideal combination
of affordability and capabilities for small businesses, and helps you create a
more efficient, better
-
connected workforce.
The Cisco 300 Series is broad portfolio of fixed
-
configuration managed Ethernet switches. Models are
available with 8 to 48 ports of Fast Ethernet and 10 to 52 ports of Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, providing
op
timal flexibility to create exactly the right network foundation for your business. However, unlike other
small business switching solutions that provide managed network capabilities only in the costliest models,
all Cisco 300 Series Switches support the a
dvanced security management capabilities and network.

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
Standard 802.1d Spanning Tree support
Fast convergence using 802.1w (Rapid Spanning Tree [RSTP]), enabled by default
8 instances are supported
Multiple Spanning Tree instances using 802.1s (MSTP)

Port grouping
Support for IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
Up to 8 groups
Up to 8 ports per group with 16 candidate ports for each (dynamic) 802.3ad link aggregation

VLAN
Support for up to 4096 VLANs simultaneously Port
based and 802.1Q t
ag
based VLANs MAC
based VLAN
Management VLAN
Private VLAN Edge (PVE), also known as protected ports, with multiple uplinks
Guest VLAN Unauthenticated VLAN
Dynamic VLAN assignment via Radius server along with 802.1x client authentication
CPE VLAN

Voice VLAN
Voice traffic is automatically assigned to a voice
specific VLAN and treated with appropriate levels
of QoS.
Auto voice capabilities deliver network
wide zero touch deployment of voice endpoints and call
control devices.

Multicast TV VLAN

Multicast TV
VLAN allows the single multicast VLAN to be shared in the network while subscribers
remain in separate VLANs (Also known as MVR)