Cisco Catalyst Switches and the 2960 Switch
Within the Cisco Catalyst brand of LAN switches, Cisco produces a wide variety of switch series or families. Each switch series includes several specific models of switches that have similar features, similar price-versus-performance trade-offs, and similar internal components.
Cisco positions the 2960 series (family) of switches as full-featured, low-cost wiring closet switches for enterprises. That means that you would expect to use 2960 switches as access switches, as shown in Figure 6-12 in Chapter 6, “Building Ethernet LANs with Switches.”
Figure 7-1 shows a photo of the 2960 switch series from Cisco. Each switch is a different specific model of switch inside the 2960 series. For example, three ...
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