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Cisco SF350 Series Managed Switches

To stay ahead in a competitive marketplace, businesses need to make every dollar count. That means getting the most value from your technology investments, but it also means making sure that employees have fast, reliable access to the business tools and information they need. Every minute an employee waits for an unresponsive application and every minute your network is down has an effect on your profits. The importance of maintaining a strong and dependable business network only grows as your business adds more employees, applications, and network complexity.

Cisco 350 Series Switches

The Cisco 350 Series, part of the Cisco Small Business line of network solutions, 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 information, and optimize your network bandwidth to deliver information and applications more effectively. Easy to set up and use, the Cisco 350 Series provides the ideal combination of affordability and capabilities for small businesses and helps you create a more efficient, better-connected workforce.

Features and Benefits

Business Applications Whether you need a basic high-performance network to connect employee computers or a solution to deliver data, voice, and video services, the Cisco 350 Series offers a solution to meet your needs. Possible deployment scenarios include:

  • Secure desktop connectivity: Cisco 350 Series Switches can simply and securely connect employees working in small offices with each other and with all of the servers, printers, and other devices they use. High performance and reliable connectivity help speed file transfers and data processing, improve network uptime, and keep your employees connected and productive.

  • Secure wireless connectivity: With its advanced security features, Power over Ethernet, Auto Smartports, QoS, VLAN, and access control features, the Cisco 350 Series Switches are the perfect foundation to add business-grade wireless to a business network.

  • Unified communications: As a managed network solution, the Cisco 350 Series provides the performance and advanced traffic-handling intelligence you need to deliver all communications and data over a single network.

  • Highly secure guest connectivity: Cisco 350 Series Switches let you extend highly secure network connectivity to guests in a variety of settings, such as a hotel, an office waiting room, or any other area open to nonemployee users.

Ease of Management and Deployment

Cisco 350 Series switches are designed to be easy to use and manage by commercial customers or the partners that serve them. They feature:

  • Cisco Smart Network Application (SNA), an innovative network-level monitoring and management tool embedded in Cisco 100 to 500 Series switches.
  • The FindIT Network Manager and Probe, designed to manage Cisco 100 to 500 Series switches, routers, and wireless access points.
  • The Cisco FindIT Network Discovery Utility, which works through a simple toolbar on your web browser to discover Cisco devices on the network and display basic device information, inventory, and new firmware updates.
  • Simple-to-use graphical interfaces reduce the time required to deploy, troubleshoot, and manage the network.
  • Support for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) allows you to set up and manage your switches and other Cisco devices remotely from a network management station.

High Reliability and Resiliency

The Cisco 350 Series supports dual images, allowing you to perform software upgrades without having to take the network offline or worry about the network going down during the upgrade.

Strong Security

Cisco 350 Series switches provide the advanced security features you need to protect your business data and keep unauthorized users off the network.

Power over Ethernet

Cisco 350 Series Switches are available with up to 48 PoE ports, simplifying advanced technology deployments such as IP telephony, wireless, and IP surveillance by allowing you to connect and power network endpoints over a single Ethernet cable.

Multigigabit Performance

Cisco’s Multigigabit Ethernet switches offer an easy-to-deploy, budget-friendly solution that allows you to increase network speed and bandwidth using your existing cables.

Networkwide Automatic Voice Deployment

Using a combination of Cisco Discovery Protocol, LLDP-MED, Auto Smartports, and Voice Services Discovery Protocol, customers can deploy an end-to-end voice network dynamically.

IPv6 Support

The Cisco 350 Series can support the transition to the next generation of networking and operating systems such as Windows 8, Vista, and Linux.

Advanced Layer 3 Traffic Management

The Cisco 350 Series enables a more advanced set of traffic management capabilities to help growing businesses organize their networks more effectively and efficiently.

Power Efficiency

The Cisco 350 Series integrates a variety of power-saving features across all models, providing the industry’s most extensive energy-efficient switching portfolio.

Expansion Ports

The Cisco 350 Series provides more ports per Gigabit Ethernet switch than traditional switch models, giving you more flexibility to connect and empower your business.

Summary

Cisco SF350 Series Managed Switches provide the advanced feature set that growing businesses require and that high-bandwidth applications and technologies demand. These switches can improve the availability of your critical applications, protect your business information, and optimize your network bandwidth to more effectively deliver information and support applications. With easy management and deployment, high reliability and resiliency, strong security, and power efficiency, the Cisco SF350 Series is an ideal choice for businesses looking to build a robust and efficient network infrastructure.