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Cisco Catalyst 2960-X Series
Introduction
What is New in 2960-X Series
Common features on 2960-X and 2960-XR
Feature Benefit
NetFlow-Lite Traffic Visibility to Plan and Monitor Network
FlexStack-Plus Simplif ies Management with Increased Scale
(80Gbps & members) and Resiliency
Mixed Stack with 2960-S Investment Protection
Switch Hibernation Mode Save power when switch is not in use
EEE Save power during gaps in data streams
Lower Power Consumption Saves power and less cooling requirement
Cisco Trust Anchor Secured boot with Signed IOS Image

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IPv6 Features Prepared for IPv6 transition
What is New in 2960-XR Only
Features supported only on 2960-XR
Feature Benefit
Dual FRU Power Supply with integrated Fan Zero Foot print Power Supply Redundancy
IP Lite Introducing L3 Features in 2k seies
Configurable 8 queues per port QoS Granularity (Standalone)
Hardware Enhancement in 2960-X Vs 2960-S
Common features on 2960-X and 2960-XR
Feature Benefit
Faster Dual Core CPU @600MHz Increase in Performance
Larger TCAM Larger table size-L2, multicast, Security, QoS
Larger DRAM-512MB Increase in Speed and Performance
Larger Flash-256MB Scope to add more IOS features
Larger Egress Buffer-4MB Better QoS performance
256 Ingress Policers Better QoS across traffic classes
Fan Less SKU (2960-X Switch) 24 Port SKU with 8 PoE ports, non stackable
SKU, Two 1G SFP & Two 1G Copper uplinks

3. Catalyst 2960-X Series License based SKUs
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Platform LAN Lite (Basic L2) LAN Base (L2) IP Lite* (L3)
2960-X Yes Yes No
2960-XR No No Yes
 Single Universal IOS Software Image for 2960-X & 2960-XR SKUs
 Fixed License SKUs, no license upgrade option.
2960-XR IP Lite Feature Highlights
Features Features Features
RIP v1 & v2 OSPF v2 & v3 Stub EIGRP Stub
Policy Based Routing OSPF v2 & v3 Stub PIM (SM, DM, SDM, SSM)
PIM Multicast Routing (IPv4
Equal Cost Routing VRRP for IPv4
& IPv6)
DHCP v6 (Client, server,
relay)
HSRP (IPv4 & IPv6) Smart Logging & Telemetry
Per VLAN or Per Port Policer SSH2 Client PVLAN
Catalyst 2960-X Series H/W Characteristics
2960-X
LAN Lite
2960-X
LAN Base
2960-XR
IP Lite
Dual Core
CPU@600MHz
Yes Yes Yes
DRAM (DDR3) 256MB 512MB 512MB
Flash On board 64MB 128MB 128MB
Stacking (module) N/A FlexStack-Plus
Optional module
FlexStack-Plus
Optional module
Power Supply Single Fixed Single Fixed Dual FRU

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RPS No Yes No
Max PoE Budget N/A 740W 740W
Uplinks (fixed) 2 SFP 2 SFP+/
4 SFP
2 SFP+/
4 SFP
Ingress Policers per
port
No 256 256
USB Flash Storage
(type A)
Yes Yes Yes
Catalyst 2960-X Series Management
• 2960-X Series provide following Management Ports
• 10/100 Ethernet for Out Of Band (OOB) network management.
• RJ45 Console Port.
• USB Console Port, Mini-B
• USB Bluetooth Type A Console Port. (hardware ready)
• USB Console has priority over RJ45 Console.
• Multi color System LEDs used for physical debugging using Mode button.
• Mode Button held for more than 10 sec will reset the switch.
Catalyst 2960-XR PoE Budget
Maximum PoE budget on 2960-XR switches is fixed for the model
Model Primary
Power
Supply
Secondary
Power
Supply
(15.4W)
Ports
Available
PoE
Budget
WS-C2960XR-48FPD-L 1025W - 48 740W
WS-C2960XR-48FPS-L 1025W 1025W
WS-C2960XR-48FPD-I
WS-C2960XR-48FPS-I 640W 640W
WS-C2960XR-48LPD-L 1025W - 24 370W
WS-C2960XR-48LPS-L
WS-C2960XR-48LPD-I
WS-C2960XR-48LPS-I 640W -
WS-C2960XR-24PD-L

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WS-C2960XR-24PS-L
WS-C2960XR-24PD-I 640W 640W
WS-C2960XR-24PS-I
Field Removable Power Supplies for 2960-XR
Delivering Power Availability and Flexibility
• 2960-XR three Power Supply options
 1025W AC -> 740W (PoE+)
 640W AC -> 370W (PoE+)
 250W AC
• 1+1 Power Redundancy
• Fans integrated with FRU Power Supply
• Up to 740W of PoE with redundancy
• DC Power Supply on Road Map
Power Resiliency
• Dual Field Removable Power Supplies
• “Zero-footprint” RPS i.e. power supply redundancy without an RPS
• Intelligent power shedding—turn off low priority PoE end devices in the event of a power
supply failure
• Stack Power is NOT Supported
Introducing FlexStack-Plus on 2960-X Series

6.  Hot swappable FlexStack-Plus modules
 Stack up to 8 switches – 400 ports
 Faster Stack Convergence - 100ms
 40 Gbps of stack bandwidth per stack port. Total 80 Gbps stack bandwidth with two stack
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ports.
 Backward Compatible with FlexStack
 Support Mix Stack - Stack of 2960-S & 2960-X
 Share uplinks for redundancy if one switch fails
 Apply features across stack members including QoS, Etherchannel
 FlexStack modules and FlexStack-Plus modules are not interchangeable.
Benefits
Investment Protection – works with older switches
Unparalleled Scalability – room to grow in capacity
Mission Critical - resilience against failures
Note:
The form factor of FlexStack and FlexStack-Plus modules is different , so they can’t be
interchanged.
Each Stack port can handle 20Gb bidirectional traffic, so bandwidth per stack port is 40Gbps
(20*2). There are two stack ports per switch which can connect to two different members. So the
effective stack bandwidth is 80Gbps (40*2).
Catalyst 2960-X FlexStack-Plus Stacking

7.  Stack link topology change is handled in HW
 Cross-stack EtherChannel, SPAN, and FlexLink supported EtherChannel physical links
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across stack members
 Pre-Provisioning of stack members
 Easy member addition and replacement
 Configurable Stack Master, same Master election rules as StackWise Plus
 Supports CISCO-STACKWISE-MIB
 Single Spanning tree node: No spanning-tree across stack
2960-S & 2960-X Mixed Stack Characteristics
 Mixed Stack – 2960-X Stack with 2960-S switches.
 2960-X LAN Base models only can form Mixed Stack.
 2960-XR IP Lite models can’t form Mixed Stack.
 Mixed Stack can be formed with 2960-S as master or member.
 The stack port speed needs to be changed on 2960-X to stack with 2960-S
Switch(config)#switch stack port-speed 10
 2960-S based SDM template (default / lanbase-routing) needs to be selected in 2960-X series
to form Mixed Stack.
 The capabilities & features of Mixed Stack are limited to 2960-S capabilities.
 The Stack bandwidth is limited to 40Gbps (20Gbps per stack port)
 The maximum number of stack members is restricted to 4 in Mixed Stack.
Note:
IP Lite SKUs can not be stacked with LAN Base SKUs
Mix Stack Combinations
2960-S/SF
LAN Base
2960-X
LAN Base
2960-XR
IP Lite

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2960-S/SF
LAN Base
Yes Yes No
2960-X
LAN Base
Yes Yes No
2960-XR
IP Base
No No Yes
TCAM Resources-SDM Templates
Note:
 If default or lanbase-routing SDM templates are chosen on 2960-X Series, the available
TCAM resources are not fully used. These SDM templates should be used only to form
Mixed stack with 2960-S.
 IP Lite models can not form mixed stack so the 290-S based SDM templates are not available
on 2960-XR IP Lite models.
C2960-S & 2960-X Comparisons

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10. Note:
 There are no plans to EoS for 2960-S before FY2016
 250 IPv6 QoS ACEs are only supported on 2960-XR IP Lite with default template, 500 IPv6
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QoS ACEs are supported with ipv4 template.
New-Lifetime Warranty on the 2960X & 2960XR
Note:

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Advantages of Catalyst 2960-X Series
Extending Intelligent Services, Security and Energy Efficiency

12. Intelligent Services of Catalyst 2960-X Series
Accelerate Common Life Cycle Activities
More related topics
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Features Comparison of Cisco Catalyst 2960 Switches
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