Description

Cisco Catalyst 1300 Series Switches

Critical building block for any branch office or SMB office network

From connectivity to cloud applications, networking plays a crucial role in every business journey. Reliability, security, and affordability continue to be top of mind, while ongoing management and operations add complexity that takes time and resources.

The Cisco Catalyst^™ 1300 Series Switches are affordable, simple-to-use switches designed and built for enterprise branch offices as well as SMB networks. Managed through the Cisco^® Business Dashboard and Cisco Business mobile app, the switch portfolio provides a simple and reliable experience.

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 Catalyst 1300 Series Switches offer a solution to meet your needs. Possible deployment scenarios include:

●      Secure office connectivity: The 1300 Series switches can simply and securely connect employees working in branch 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.

High reliability and resiliency

In a branch office or 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 networks and expanding branch offices 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 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.

●      Fanless 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.

 

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