Standard Network Protocols

• Gigabit Ethernet: IEEE 802.3z, IEEE 802.3x

• 1000BaseX (GBIC)

  1000BaseSX

  1000BaseLX/LH

  1000BaseZX

• VLAN trunking tagging: IEEE 802.1Q

• Spanning Tree Protocol: IEEE 802.1D1000BaseX (GBIC)

Network Management

• CiscoWorks2000 Network Management Suite, Resource Manager Essentials includes:

  Inventory manager

  Change audit

  Device configuration manager

  Software image manager

  Availability manager

  Syslog analyzer

  Cisco management connection

• CiscoWorks2000 Network Management Suite, CiscoWorks for Switched Internetworks (CWSI) campus includes:

  Network topology discovery and display services

  VLAN provisioning and logical display representation

  Traffic monitoring and performance assessment

  End-station tracking with search utilities

  ATM and LANE service configuration and performance monitoring

  CiscoView graphical device management

  Network topology integrity checking

• Cisco Discovery Protocol

• Cisco Virtual Trunking Protocol (VTP)

• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent V.1 (RFCs 1155-1157)

• SNMPV.2c

• Cisco workgroup Management Information Base (MIB)

• Ethernet MIB (RFC 1643)

• Ethernet repeater MIB (RFC 1516)

• SNMP MIB II (RFC 1213)

• Remote Monitoring (RMON) (RFC 1757)

• Remote Monitoring (RMON II) (RFC 2021)

• Interface table (RFC 1573)

• Bridge MIB (RFC 1493)

• SMT 7.3 (RFC 1285)

• Switched port analyzer (SPAN)

• Enhanced switched port analyzer (ESPAN)

• Port snooping and connection steering

• Text-based command-line interface based on the familiar Catalyst 5000 interface

• Standard Cisco IOS security capabilities: passwords and TACACS+

• Telnet, Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP), and BOOTP for management access

EtherChannel

• Gigabit EtherChannel: all 1000 Mbps ports

• PAgP: Yes

Year 2000

• Year 2000 compliant: Yes

Memory Specifications

• Buffering: 8 MB Shared

• NVRAM: 512 KB

• FLASH: 12 MB

• SDRAM: 64 MB

Switching Specifications

• MAC addresses: 16,000

• Virtual LANs (VLANs): 1,024

• Fabric: store and forward

• Queues: dual queuing