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Standard Network Protocols
• Ethernet
– IEEE 802.3, 10BASE-T
• Fast Ethernet
– IEEE 802.3u, 100BASE-TX
– IEEE 802.3, 100BASE-FX
• Gigabit Ethernet
– IEEE 802.3z
– IEEE 802.3x
– IEEE 802.3ab
• 1000BASE-X (GBIC)
– 1000BASE-SX
– 1000BASE-LX/LH
– 1000BASE-ZX
• VLAN trunking and tagging
– IEEE 802.1Q
– IEEE 802.3ad
• Spanning Tree Protocol
– IEEE 802.1D
– IEEE 802.1w
– IEEE 802.1s
• Security
– IEEE 802.1x
• Power over Ethernet (PoE)
– IEEE 802.3af
NETWORK MANAGEMENT
CiscoWorks Resource Manager Essentials, a component of CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS), provides the following benefits to
the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series:
• Builds and maintains an up-to-date hardware and software inventory
• Maintains an active archive and simplifies deployment of configuration changes to multiple devices
• Simplifies and accelerates software-image analysis and automates deployment
• Records and displays comprehensive reports of software, hardware, and configuration changes
• Highlights critical devices and their ability to respond
• Isolates network error conditions and suggests probable causes
• Network-topology discovery and display services
• VLAN provisioning and logical display representation
• Traffic monitoring and performance assessment
• End-station tracking with search utilities
• CiscoView graphical device management
• Network-topology integrity checking
