Catalyst 3524-PWR Stackable 10/100 Ethernet Switch

 

 

THE CATALYST® 3524-PWR XL SWITCH IS A MEMBER OF THE CISCO SYSTEMS CATALYST 3500 SERIES XL, A SCALABLE LINE OF STACKABLE 10/100 AND GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCHES THAT DELIVERS PREMIUM PERFORMANCE, MANAGEABILITY, AND FLEXIBILITY WITH UNPARALLELED INVESTMENT PROTECTION.

 

ADVANCED QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS) FULLY INTEGRATED WITH CISCO IP PHONES AND HIGH-AVAILABILITY NETWORK FEATURES MAKE THE CATALYST 3524-PWR XL THE PREMIER SWITCHING SOLUTION FOR CUSTOMERS AS THEY PREPARE THEIR LOCAL-AREA NETWORKS (LAN) FOR INTEGRATED VOICE, VIDEO, AND DATA APPLICATIONS.

 

 

The Catalyst 3524-PWR XL switch has 24 10/100 switched ports

with integrated inline power and two Gigabit Interface Converter

(GBIC)-based Gigabit Ethernet ports (See Figure 1). Integrated

inline power provides DC current to devices that can accept power

over traditional unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cabling (for example,

the Cisco 7900 family of Cisco IP phones). The dual GBIC-based

Gigabit Ethernet implementation provides customers with

tremendous deployment flexibility—allowing customers to

implement one type of stacking and uplink configuration today, while

preserving the option to migrate that configuration in the future.

Any customer who expects to deploy converged network

applications in the future must consider deploying LAN

equipment such as switches today that can support those

increased requirements. Such switches should be able to treat

time-sensitive traffic such as voice and critical data traffic with the

appropriate priority and ensure that the network can recover

immediately from any network convergence or power failure. The

Catalyst 3524-PWR XL is easy to deploy in traditional data LANs

and has the advanced QoS and high-availability features to

prepare networks to run applications that merge voice, video and

data traffic.

 

 

Figure 1 The Catalyst 3524-PWR XL Switch Provides 24 10/100 Ports with Integrated Inline Power and Two Built-in GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet Ports with up to 7.0 Million Packets Per Second Performance

 

 

 

Quality of Service

All Catalyst 3500 series XL switches support LAN edge QoS

based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

(IEEE) 802.1p class of service (CoS), as well as port-based

prioritization. The Catalyst 3524-PWR XL supports port-based

reclassification, which allows the switch to change the CoS

settings of tagged packets on a per-port basis. For untagged

packets, the switch uses the default ingress port priority to classify

the packets. Priority scheduling is applied between the queues,

which ensures that the high priority queue is always serviced

before scheduling the lower priority traffic. These features enable

users to prioritize mission critical traffic, such as Voice over IP

(VoIP) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications over

regular traffic, such as File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or

low-priority Web surfing traffic.

Catalyst 3500 XL and 2900 XL switches can automatically

configureVirtual LAN (VLAN) and trusted-extension settings for IP

telephones, which overcomes the management complexity of

overlaying a voice topology onto a data network and maintaining the

quality of voice traffic. With the auxiliary VLAN feature, network

administrators can segment phones into separate logical networks

even though the data and voice infrastructure is physically the same.

The auxiliary VLAN feature places the phones into their own

VLANswithout any end-user intervention. The user simply plugs the

phone into the switch, and the switch will provide the phone with the

necessary VLAN information. Trusted extension settings allow the

switch to ensure that voice traffic from an IP phone gets high-priority

treatment by controlling how traffic from a daisy-chained device is

classified.

 

 

 

Resiliency Features

Catalyst 3500 series XL switches have a number of hardware- and

software-based high-availability features that prevent network

and power outages from disrupting network availability, including

inline power and advanced spanning-tree convergence.

Catalyst 3524-PWR XL can provide 48-volt DC power over

standard Category 5 UTP cable up to 100 meters. Instead of

requiring wall power at every desktop, terminal devices such as IP

telephones can utilize power provided from the Catalyst

3524-PWR XL switch. With the Phone Discovery feature, the

Catalyst switch automatically detects the presence of an IP phone

and supplies inline power. By deploying Catalyst 3524-PWR XL

switches with uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems in

secured wiring closets, network administrators can ensure that

power outages will not affect a building’s network telephony

connections.

Dual gigabit uplinks provide physical uplink redundancy in

case the primary link goes down. Enhanced spanning-tree

convergence features such as Port Fast, Uplink Fast and Per VLAN

Spanning Tree (PVST) ensure rapid convergence of spanning tree

in the case of link failure. PVST allows users to implement

redundant uplinks while also distributing traffic loads across

multiple links—not possible with standard shielded twisted pair

(STP) implementations. Cisco Uplink Fast technology ensures

immediate transfer to the secondary uplink, enhancing overall

network stability and reliability.

 

 

 

Software Management Features

Cisco Catalyst 3500 series XL switches include several

exceptional features to increase performance and manageability for

converged networks.To boost performance, Fast EtherChannel® and

Gigabit EtherChannel technology offer from 400 Mbps to 4 Gbps

high-performance bandwidth among Catalyst switches, routers, and

servers. The Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP) enhances

the performance of multimedia applications and reduces network

traffic by allowing a switch to selectively and dynamically forward

IP multicast traffic to targeted end stations.

 

 

 

Flexible Stacking with the GigaStack GBIC

The Catalyst 3500 series XL and Gigabit Ethernet-enabled

Catalyst 2900 series XL switches can be stacked using the

low-cost Cisco GigaStack GBIC. The two-port GigaStack GBIC

offers a range of highly flexible stacking and performance options.

Customers can deploy a 1 Gbps independent stack backplane in a

cascade configuration, or scale up to 5 Gbps of bandwidth in a star

configuration using the Catalyst 3508G XL Gigabit Ethernet

aggregation switch (See Figure 2). Network managers may use one

or both of the available GBIC ports to create high-speed uplinks to

the network core, using standard Gigabit Ethernet or Gigabit

EtherChannel technology. High levels of stack resiliency can also be

implemented by deploying dual redundant Gigabit Ethernet

Uplinks, a redundant GigaStack loopback cable, Uplink Fast for

high-speed uplink failover, and per VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST+)

for uplink load balancing. This Gigabit Ethernet flexibility makes

the Catalyst 3500 series XL an ideal LAN edge complement to the

Cisco Catalyst 6500 family of Gigabit Ethernet-optimized core

LAN switches.

Figure 2 Customers Can Start with a Low-cost GigaStack, GBIC-based, 1 Gbps, Independent Stack Backplane. At Any Point, Users Have The Option to Increase Their

Stack Performance to 5 Gbps Using The Same GigaStack GBICs In Combination with the High-performance Catalyst 3508G XL Gigabit Ethernet Aggregation Switch

 

 

 

Cisco Switch Clustering

Breakthrough Cisco switch clustering technology enables up to 16

interconnected Catalyst 3500 XL, Catalyst 2900 XL, and Catalyst

1900 switches—regardless of geographic proximity—to form a

single IP management domain. Switch-cluster connectivity

options for the Catalyst 3500 series XL include Ethernet, Fast

Ethernet, Fast EtherChannel, low-cost Cisco GigaStack GBIC,

Gigabit Ethernet, and Gigabit EtherChannel connectivity. Because

the technology is not limited by proprietary stacking modules or

stacking cables, Cisco switch clustering expands the traditional

stacking domain beyond a single wiring closet. Catalyst 3500 XL

switches can be configured either as command or member

switches in a Cisco switch stack or cluster. The command switch

serves as the single IP address management point and disburses all

management instructions dictated by the network administrator.

Command switches can cluster up to 15 additional interconnected

member switches regardless of interconnection media.

 

 

 

Key Features/Benefits

Exceptional Performance

• Twelve, 24, or 48 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX autosensing ports,

each delivering up to 200 Mbps of bandwidth to individual

users, servers, or workgroups to support bandwidth- intensive

applications

• Two built-in, GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet ports, delivering up to

4 Gbps aggregated bandwidth to Gigabit Ethernet backbones,

Gigabit Ethernet servers, or between switches

• 10.8 Gbps switching fabric and up to a 8.0-millionpackets-

per-second forwarding rate, ensuring high performance

forwarding to each 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX and Gigabit

Ethernet port

• 4 MB shared-memory architecture, ensuring the

highest-possible throughput with a design that eliminates

head-of-line blocking, minimizes packet loss, and delivers

better overall performance in environments with extensive

multicast and broadcast traffic

• Full-duplex operation on all ports, delivering up to 200 Mbps on

10/100 ports or 2 Gbps on 1000BASE-X ports

• Dual-priority forwarding queues on each 10/100 and Gigabit

Ethernet ports, enabling network traffic prioritization and

seamless data, voice, and video integration through IEEE

802.1p protocol

• Bandwidth aggregation through Fast EtherChannel and Gigabit

EtherChannel technologies, enhancing fault tolerance and

offering from 400 Mbps to 4 Gbps of aggregated bandwidth

between switches, and to routers and individual servers

• GigaStack GBIC delivers a low-cost, independent stack bus

with a 1 Gbps forwarding bandwidth in a daisy-chain

configuration, with up to nine Catalyst 3500 XL or

gigabit-enabled Catalyst 2900 series XL switches or a 2 Gbps

forwarding rate in a point-to-point configuration

• GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet ports give customers a choice of

1000BASE-SX, 1000BASE-LX/LH, 1000BASE-ZX or Cisco

GigaStack stacking GBICs to fit their connection needs

• Per-port broadcast storm control prevents faulty end stations

from degrading overall system performance with broadcast

storms

 

 

Flexible and Scalable Switch Clustering Architecture

• Cisco Switch Clustering technology allows a user to manage up

to 16 interconnected Catalyst 3500 XL, 2900 XL, and Catalyst

1900 switches through a single IP address regardless of location

• Cluster management is ensured in the rare event of command

switch failure via a fail-over scheme that runs automatically

 

 

Ease of Use and Ease of Deployment

• Auxiliary VLAN via 802.1Q supports automatic segmentation

of phone and data endpoints into separate logical networks

• Cluster software administration feature allows the network

manager to quickly and easily upgrade the system software on

a group of Catalyst 3500 XL, 2900 XL, and Catalyst 1900

switches

• IEEE 802.3z-compliant 1000BASE-SX, 1000BASE-LX/LH,

and 1000BASE-ZX physical interface support through a

field-replaceable GBIC module provides customers

unprecedented flexibility in switch deployment

• Autosensing on each port detects attached device speed and

automatically configures the port for 10 or 100 Mbps operation,

easing the deployment of the switch in mixed 10BASE-T and

100BASE-TX environments

• Autonegotiating on all ports automatically selects halfor

full-duplex transmission mode to optimize bandwidth

• Autoconfiguration eases switch deployment in the network by

automatically configuring multiple switches across a network

via a boot server

• Default configuration stored in Flash memory ensures that a

switch can be quickly connected to the network and can pass

traffic with minimal user intervention, preserving configuration

in case of a power outage

 

 

 

Integrated Cisco IOS Switching Solution

• Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP) enables a switch

to selectively and dynamically forward routed IP multicast

traffic to targeted multimedia end stations, reducing overall

network traffic

• CGMP Fast Leave allows end stations to quickly exit from a

multicast session, reducing superfluous network traffic

• Virtual LAN trunks can be created from any port using either

standards-based 802.1Q tagging or the Cisco Inter Switch Link

(ISL) VLAN architecture

• IEEE 802.1p Layer 2 protocol for prioritization of

mission-critical and time-sensitive traffic from data, voice, and

telephony applications

• Cisco Virtual Trunking Protocol (VTP) supports dynamic

VLANs and trunk configuration across all switches

• Cisco IOS® command-line interface (CLI) support provides

common user interface and command set across all Catalyst

series switches and Cisco routers

• Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) enables a CiscoWorks

network management station to automatically discover a switch

in a network topology

 

 

Superior Manageability

• Built-inWeb-based management interface provides easy-to-use

management through a standard browser such as Netscape

Navigator or Microsoft Explorer

• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and

Telnet interface support deliver comprehensive in-band

management, and a CLI-based management console provides

detailed out-of-band management

• Manageable through CiscoWorks2000 network management

software on a per-port and per-switch basis, providing a

common management interface for Cisco routers, switches, and

hubs

• 8 MB DRAM and 4 MB Flash memory onboard, enabling the

addition of a continuous stream of feature upgrades and

maximizing customer investments

• Configurable network port, supporting unlimited Media Access

Control (MAC) addresses for backbone connectivity

• Embedded Remote Monitoring (RMON) software agent

supports four RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms, and

events) for enhanced traffic management, monitoring, and

analysis

• Support for all nine RMON groups through use of a switch port

analyzer (SPAN) port that permits traffic monitoring of a single

port, a group of ports, or the entire switch from a single network

analyzer or RMON probe

• Domain Name System (DNS) client support provides IP

address resolution with user-defined device nam

• Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) reduces the cost of

administering software upgrades by downloading from a

centralized location

• Network Time Protocol (NTP) provides an accurate and

consistent timestamp to all switches within the intranet

• Multifunction LEDs per port for port status, half-duplex/

full-duplex, and 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX indication, as well

as switch-level status LEDs for system, redundant power supply

(RPS), bandwidth utilization and inline power provide a

comprehensive and convenient visual management system

 

 

Security and Redundancy

• Inline power 48-volt DC power is provided over Category 5

UTP cable up to 100 meters (pin assignment: 1, 2, 3, 6)

• Cisco Uplink Fast technology ensures quick fail-over recovery,

enhancing overall network stability and reliability

• Support for TACACS+ authentication enables centralized

control of the switch and restricts unauthorized users from

altering the configuration

• MAC-based port-level security prevents unauthorized stations

from accessing the switch

• User-selectable address learning mode simplifies configuration and

enhances security

• Multilevel security on console access prevents unauthorized

users from altering switch configurations

• IEEE 802.1D Spanning-Tree Protocol support for redundant

backbone connections and loop-free networks simplifies network

configuration and improves fault tolerance

• Support for a redundant loopback cable connecting the top and

bottom switches in a GigaStack stack

• Support for optional Cisco 300 watt redundant AC power

system provides a backup power source for up to four units for

improved fault tolerance and network uptime

 

 

 

Technical Specifications

 

 

Performance

• 10.8 Gbps switching fabric

• 6.5 million pps wire-speed forwarding rate for 64-byte packets

• 5.4 Gbps maximum forwarding bandwidth

• 4 MB memory architecture shared by all ports

• 8 MB DRAM and 4 MB Flash memory

• 8192 MAC addresses

 

 

Management

• SNMP Management Information Base (MIB) II, SNMP MIB

extensions, Bridging MIB (RFC 1493)

 

 

Standards

• IEEE 802.3x full duplex on 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and

1000BASE-X ports

• IEEE 802.1D Spanning-Tree Protocol

• IEEE 802.1p CoS prioritization

• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN

• IEEE 802.3z 1000BASE-X specification

• 1000BASE-X (GBIC)

• 1000BASE-SX

• 1000BASE-LX/LH

• 1000BASE-ZX

• IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX specification

• IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T specification

 

 

Connectors and Cabling

• 10BASE-T ports: RJ-45 connectors; two-pair Category 3, 4, or

5 UTP cabling

• 100BASE-TX ports: RJ-45 connectors; two-pair Category 5

UTP cabling

• 1000BASE-X GBIC ports: SC fiber connectors, single-mode or

multimode fiber

• GigaStack GBIC ports: copper-based Cisco GigaStack cabling

• Management console port: RJ-45 connector, RS-232

serial cabling

 

 

Indicators

• Per-port status LEDs—link integrity, disabled, activity, speed,

full-duplex indications and inline power enabled

• System status LEDs—system, RPS, and bandwidth utilization

indications

• Fan-fault on over-temperature indicators

 

 

Dimensions and Weight (H x W x D)

• 1.75 x 17.5 x 11.8 in (4.4 x 44.5 x 30 cm)

• One rack-unit (RU) high

• 12 lb (5.45 kg)

 

 

Environmental Conditions and Power Requirements

• Operating temperature: 32 to 113 F (0 to 45 C)

• Storage temperature: -13 to 158 F (-25 to 70 C)

• Operating relative humidity: 10 to 85% noncondensing

• Operating altitude: Up to 10,000 ft (3000 m)

• Power consumption: 82.2W maximum; 280 BTU per hour

• AC input voltage/frequency: 100 to 127/200 to 240 VAC

(autoranging) 50 to 60 Hz

• MTBF 150,000 hours

 

 

Safety Certifications

• UL 1950, Third Edition

• CAN/CSA 22.2 No. 950-95, Third Edition

• NOM-019-SCFI

• AS/NZS 3260 and TS001-1997

• IEC 60950 with all country deviations

• EN 60950 with Amendmenta A1-A4 and A11

• CE Marking

 

 

Electromagnetic Emissions Certifications

• FCC Part 15 Class A

• EN 55022b Class A (CISPR 22 Class A)

• VCCI Class A

• AS/NZS 3548 Class A

• BCIQ

• CE Marking

 

 

Warranty

• Lifetime limited warranty

 

 

Ordering Information

Model Number

• WS-C3524-PWR-XL-EN (24-port 10/100 with integrated

inline power + two-port 1000BASE-X, Enterprise Edition)