User Manual

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Highly secure wireless connectivity. Cisco 200 Series switches work with Cisco and third-party wireless

solutions to extend the reach of your network. Employees can work productively from conference rooms

and common areas, collaborate in any office, and access business applications from wherever they are.

With their security features, Power over Ethernet (PoE), Auto Smartports, VLAN, and QoS, these switches

are the perfect foundation to add business-grade wireless to a network.

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Unified communications. The Cisco 200 Series provides QoS features to enable you to prioritize delay-

sensitive traffic in your network and let you converge all of your communications solutions – such as IP

telephony and video surveillance – onto a single Ethernet network. Cisco offers a complete portfolio of IP

telephony and other unified communications products designed for small businesses, and Cisco 200 Series

switches have been rigorously tested to help ensure easy integration and full compatibility with these and

other vendor products.

Features and Benefits

Cisco 200 Series Smart Switches provide all of the features you need to create a basic business-class network at

an affordable price. These features include:

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Easy configuration and management: Cisco 200 Series switches are designed to be easy to deploy and

use by small businesses or the partners that serve them. Simple-to-use web-based interfaces reduce the

time it takes to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot your network. Key features include:

◦ Cisco Discovery Protocol and Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP-MED) automatically detect all the

devices connected to your network and then automatically configure themselves for the appropriate

connectivity and instruct the devices to use appropriate voice VLAN or QoS parameters.

◦ Cisco Smartports technology provides for more advanced capabilities and hands-on control by

automatically configuring ports with specific levels of security, QoS, and availability according to the type

of connected device, based on Cisco best practices and pretested configurations. The Auto Smartports

feature automatically applies the intelligence delivered through the Smartports roles to the port based on

the devices discovered over Cisco Discovery Protocol or LLDP-MED. This capability facilitates

zero-touch deployments.

◦ Cisco FindIT Network Discovery Utility works through a simple toolbar on the user’s web browser to

discover Cisco devices on the network and display basic information, such as serial numbers and IP

addresses, to aid in the configuration and speed the deployment of Cisco Small Business products. For

more information, and to download the utility, visit http://www.cisco.com/go/findit.

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Performance and reliability: Cisco 200 Series switches have been tested to deliver the high availability

and performance you would expect from a Cisco switch and help you prevent costly downtime. The

switches speed file transfer times, improve slow and sluggish networks, keep your vital business

applications available, and help your employees respond more quickly to customers and each other. With a

network based on Cisco 200 Series switches, you can address all of your business communications and

connectivity needs and reduce the total cost of ownership of your technology infrastructure.

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Power over Ethernet (PoE): Cisco 200 Series switches are available with PoE on both Fast Ethernet and

Gigabit Ethernet models. This capability simplifies the deployment of IP telephony, wireless, video

surveillance, and other solutions by allowing you to send data and power to network endpoints over the

same network cable. With no need for separate power supplies or outlets for IP phones, IP cameras, or

wireless access points, you can speed up deployment and installation and take advantage of advanced

communications technologies quickly, and at a lower cost.