Cisco Catalyst 1300 Series C1300-24P-4X

Secure office connectivity:

• The 1300 Series switches can simply and securely connect employees working in small offices with each other and with all of the servers, printers, and other networking 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.

Unified communications:

• As a managed network solution, the 1300 Series switches provide the performance and advanced traffic-handling intelligence you need to deliver all communications and data over a single network. Cisco offers a complete portfolio of IP telephony and other unified communications products designed for businesses. The 1300 Series switches have been rigorously tested to help ensure easy integration and full compatibility with these and other products, providing a complete business solution.
  

Highly secure guest connectivity:

• The 1300 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. Using powerful but easy-to-configure security and traffic segmentation capabilities, you can isolate your vital business traffic from guest services and keep guests’ network sessions private from each other.
  

Features and benefits

• The Cisco Catalyst 1300 Series Switches provide the advanced feature set that growing businesses require and that high-bandwidth applications and technologies demand. They provide the following benefits.
  

Ease of management and deployment

• The 1300 Series switches are designed to be easy to use and manage by commercial customers or the partners that serve them, including the following features:
  

• The Cisco Business Dashboard is designed to manage Cisco Business switches, Cisco Catalyst 1200 and 1300 Series switches, routers, and wireless access points. It simplifies traditional challenges in deploying and managing business networks while automating the deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of the network. The 1300 Series switches support an embedded probe as well as direct management, eliminating the need to set up a separate hardware or virtual machine onsite. The device onboarding wizard simplifies the setup and onboarding of new devices to the network. For more information, visit https://www.cisco.com/go/cbd.

• The Cisco Network Plug and Play solution provides a simple, secure, unified, and integrated offering to ease new device rollouts or for provisioning updates to an existing network. The solution provides a unified approach to provisioning Cisco routers, switches, and wireless devices with a near-zero-touch deployment experience.
  

• The intuitive user interfaces reduce the time required to deploy, troubleshoot, and manage the network and allow you to support sophisticated capabilities without increasing IT head count.

• The switches also support text view, a full Command-Line Interface (CLI) option for partners that prefer it.

• 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, improving IT workflow and mass configurations.

•  The switches support an external Bluetooth dongle that plugs into the USB port on the switch and allows a Bluetooth-based RF connection with external laptops and tablets (Figure 2). Laptops and tablets can access the switch CLI using a Telnet or Secure Shell (SSH) client over Bluetooth. The GUI can be accessed over Bluetooth with a browser.

High reliability and resiliency

• In a growing business where availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week is critical, you need to provide business continuity and ensure that employees can always access the data and resources they need. The Cisco Catalyst 1300 Series Switches support dual images, allowing you to perform software upgrades with minimal network downtime.
  

Strong security

• The Cisco Catalyst 1300 Series Switches provide the advanced security features you need to protect your business data and keep unauthorized users off the network:

• Support for advanced network security applications such as IEEE 802.1X and port security tightly limits access to specific segments of your network. Web-based authentication provides a consistent interface to authenticate all types of host devices and operating systems, without the complexity of deploying 802.1X clients on each endpoint.

• Advanced defense mechanisms, including dynamic Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) inspection, IP Source Guard, and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) snooping, detect and block deliberate network attacks. Combinations of these protocols are also referred to as IP/MAC/port binding (IPMB).

• IPv6 First Hop Security extends advanced threat protection to IPv6. This comprehensive security suite includes Neighbor Discovery (ND) inspection, Router Advertisement (RA) guard, DHCPv6 guard, and neighbor binding integrity check, providing unparalleled protection against a vast range of address spoofing and man-in-the-middle attacks on IPv6 networks.

Power over Ethernet

• The Cisco Catalyst 1300 Series Switches are available with up to 48 Power over Ethernet (PoE) ports. This capability simplifies 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. With no need to install separate power supplies for IP phones or wireless access points, you can take advantage of advanced communication technologies more quickly and at a lower cost. Models support 802.3af PoE and 802.3at PoE+.
  

IPv6 support

• As the IP address scheme evolves to accommodate a growing number of network devices, the Cisco Catalyst 1300 Series Switches can support the transition to the next generation of networking. These switches continue to support previous-generation IPv4, allowing you to evolve to the new IPv6 standard at your own pace and helping ensure that your current network will continue to support your business applications in the future.
  

Advanced Layer 3 traffic management

• The Cisco Catalyst 1300 Series Switches enable a more advanced set of traffic management capabilities to help growing businesses organize their networks more effectively and efficiently. For example, the switches provide dynamic Layer 3 routing, allowing you to segment your network into workgroups and communicate across VLANs without degrading application performance.
  

• With these capabilities, you can boost the efficiency of your network by offloading internal traffic-handling tasks from your router and allowing it to manage primarily external traffic and security.

Front Panel Stacking

• The Cisco Catalyst 1300 Series Switches provide Front Panel Stacking capability for up to eight switches, allowing you to configure, manage, and troubleshoot all switches in a stack as a single unit with a single IP address.
  

• This stack stack delivers a unified data and control plane, in addition to the management plane, providing flexibility, scalability, and ease of use because the stack of units operates as a single entity constituting all the ports of the stack members. This capability can radically reduce complexity in a growing network environment while improving the resiliency and availability of network applications. Front Panel Stacking also provides other cost savings and administrative benefits through features such as cross-stack Quality of Service (QoS), VLANs, Link Aggregation (LAG), and port mirroring, which clustered switches cannot support.

Compact design

• The sleek and compact design for the Cisco Catalyst 1300 Series Switches provides additional deployment flexibility, including installation outside the wiring closet for sites such as retail stores, open-plan offices, and classrooms without disturbing the environment.
  

Power efficiency

• The Cisco Catalyst 1300 Series Switches integrate a variety of power-saving features across all models, providing the industry’s most extensive energy-efficient switching portfolio. These switches are designed to conserve energy by optimizing power use, which helps protect the environment and reduce your energy costs. They provide an eco-friendly network solution without compromising performance. The switches feature:

• Support for the Energy Efficient Ethernet (IEEE 802.3az) standard, which reduces energy consumption by monitoring the amount of traffic on an active link and putting the link into a sleep state during quiet periods.

• Automatic power shutoff on ports when a link is down.

• Embedded intelligence to adjust signal strength based on the length of the connecting cable.

•  Fan less design in most models, which reduces power consumption, increases reliability, and provides quieter operation.

Peace of mind and investment protection

• The Cisco Catalyst 1300 Series Switches offer the reliable performance and peace of mind you expect from a Cisco switch. They have been rigorously tested to help ensure optimal network uptime and provide business continuity. Complimentary one-year access to our Small Business Support Center for ongoing support and a limited lifetime warranty with Return-To-Factory (RTF) replacement help keep your business running smoothly

Product specifications

Spanning Tree Protocol

• Standard 802.1d Spanning Tree support
• Fast convergence using 802.1w (Rapid Spanning Tree [RSTP]), enabled by default Multiple Spanning Tree instances using 802.1s (MSTP); 8 instances are supported
  
• Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVST+) and Rapid PVST+ (RPVST+); 126 instances are supported Spanning Tree

Port grouping/link aggregation

•  Support for IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
• Up to 8 groups
• Up to 8 ports per group with 16 candidate ports for each (dynamic) 802.3ad link aggregation

VLAN

• Support for up to 4093 VLANs simultaneously
• Port-based and 802.1Q tag-based VLANs, MAC-based VLAN, protocol-based VLAN, IP subnet-based VLAN
• Management VLAN
• Private VLAN with promiscuous, isolated, and community port
• Private VLAN Edge (PVE), also known as protected ports, with multiple uplinks Guest VLAN, unauthenticated VLAN
• Dynamic VLAN assignment via RADIUS server along with 802.1X client authentication Customer premises equipment (CPE) VLAN
• Auto surveillance VLAN (ASV)

DHCP relay at Layer 2

• Relay of DHCP traffic to a DHCP server in a different VLAN; works with DHCP Option 82
  
  

IPv4 routing

• Wire-speed routing of IPv4 packets
• Up to 990 static routes and up to 128 IP interfaces

DHCP server

• Switch functions as an IPv4 DHCP server, serving IP addresses for multiple DHCP pools or scopes
• Support for DHCP options

User Datagram Protocol (UDP) relay

• Relay of broadcast information across Layer 3 domains for application discovery or relaying of Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP)/DHCP packets

Total system ports 24 x Gigabit Ethernet + 4 x 10G RJ-45 ports 24 x Gigabit Ethernet Combo ports (RJ-45 + Small Form-Factor Pluggable [SFP]) 4 x SFP+

Total system ports

• 24 x Gigabit Ethernet + 4 x 10G

RJ-45 ports

• 24 x Gigabit Ethernet
  

Combo ports (RJ-45 + Small Form-Factor Pluggable [SFP])

• 4x SFP+