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Like most Catalyst 2960 devices, the refurbished WS-C2960-24TT-L achieves high availability through innovative Quality of Service implementations. Sure, it has the expected standards, like Syslog support and dynamic IP address assignment, but it also uses some of Cisco’s own proprietary tricks to make your network traffic even more optimized.

One of the cool things about a Cisco 2960 switch like the WS-C2960-24TT-L is that it incorporates per-port Storm Control. This means that it can easily prevent storms caused by sudden unicasts, multicasts or broadcasts, so incapable end stations never ruin entire networks. Resource-intensive broadcasts are further minimized by local proxy Address Resolution Protocol support.

Each of the 24 x 10/100 Fast Ethernet ports takes advantage of all these features to provide your devices with optimized traffic and 32 Gbps of shared switching capacity. Layer 2 tracerouting makes it easy to further improve communications by identifying packet paths, and with 64-byte forwarding performance of 6.5 Mpps, that’s a big advantage. The WS-C2960-24TT-L Cisco 2960 switch also makes it easy to communicate with other nodes by including 2 x 10/100/1000 ports as well as Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP) support. PAgP automatically identifies and groups ports and attached devices for instant creation of Cisco EtherChannel groups for node-to-node linking.

This switch performs well in groups too. BOOTP and DHCP support means that you can use a bootloader to automatically configure multiple WS-C2960-24TT-L switches at once. VLAN and dedicated telephony VLAN support allow you to run complex VoIP networks without interference. With load balancing, DHCP snooping and a host of other manageable qualities designed to prioritize traffic according to your specifications, this is the ideal switch for expanding networks.