| Manufacturer's Description |
| The Cisco Catalyst 3550 Series Intelligent Ethemet Switches are a new line of enterprise-class, stackable, multilayer solutions that provide high availability, scalability security and control to enhance the operation of the network. With a range of Fast Ethemet and Gigabit Ethement configurations, the Catalyst 3550 Series can serve as both a powerful access layer switch for medium enterprise writing closets and as a backbone switch for mid sized networks. For the first time, customers can deploy network wide intelligent services, such as advanced quality of service, rate limiting, Cisco security access control lists, multicast management, and high performance IP routing - while maintaing the simplicity of traditional LAN switching. |