Description

Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai

The Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai Switch is an integral part of the Cisco small business line of network solutions, offering a range of affordable managed switches that establish a dependable foundation for your business network. Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai is equipped with the essential features necessary to enhance the availability of critical business applications, safeguard sensitive information, and optimize network bandwidth to efficiently deliver information and applications. With its user-friendly setup, the Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai provides the perfect blend of affordability and capabilities for small businesses, fostering a more efficient and well-connected workforce.

The Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai switch represents a comprehensive range of fixed-configuration managed Ethernet switches. These models are available with 48 ports of Fast Ethernet and 10 to 28 ports of Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, ensuring optimal flexibility to tailor the network foundation precisely to your business needs. Unlike other small business switching solutions that restrict managed network capabilities to their priciest models, the Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai supports advanced security management capabilities and network features essential for handling business-class data, voice, security, and wireless technologies. Furthermore, these switches facilitate seamless deployment and configuration, enabling you to leverage the managed network services necessary for the growth of your business.

Features

Secure desktop connectivity

Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai switch simply and securely connect employees working in small offices with each other and with all of the servers, printers, and other 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.

Secure wireless connectivity

With its advanced security features, Power over Ethernet, Auto Smartports, QoS, VLAN, and access control features, the Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai is the perfect foundation to add business-grade wireless to a business network.

Unified communications

As a managed network solution, Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai provides 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. Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai has 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

Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai switch extends 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 non-employee 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.

Ease of Management and Deployment

Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai is designed to be easy to use and manage by commercial customers or the partners that serve them. They feature :

• Cisco Smart Network Application (SNA) is an innovative network-level monitoring and management tool embedded in Cisco 100 to 500 Series switches. It can discover network topology, display link status, monitor events, apply configurations, and upgrade software images across multiple switches in the network.
• The FindIT Network Manager and Probe are designed to manage Cisco 100 to 500 Series switches, routers, and wireless access points. The Manager lets you proactively manage the network instead of just reacting to events.
• The Cisco FindIT Network Discovery Utility works through a simple toolbar on your web browser to discover Cisco devices on the network and display basic device information, inventory, and new firmware updates to aid in the configuration and speed the deployment of Cisco Small Business products
• The USB port on the front panel of the switch enables easy image and configuration transfer for faster deployment or upgrade.
• Simple-to-use graphical 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 Textview, a full Command-Line Interface (CLI) option for partners that prefer it.
• Using Auto Smartports intelligence, the switch can detect a network device connected to any port and automatically configure the optimal security, Quality of Service (QoS), and availability on that port.
• Cisco Discovery Protocol discovers Cisco devices and allows devices to share critical configuration information, simplifying network setup and integration.
• 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.

High Reliability and Resiliency

In a growing business where availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week is critical, you need to assure that employees can always access the data and resources they need. The Cisco 350 Series supports dual images, allowing you to perform software upgrades without having to take the network offline or worry about the network going down during the upgrade.

Strong Security

Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai provides the advanced security features you need to protect your business data and keep unauthorized users off the network :

• Embedded Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption protects management data traveling to and from the switch.
• Extensive Access Control Lists (ACLs) restrict sensitive portions of the network to keep out unauthorized users and guard against network attacks.
• Guest VLANs let you provide Internet connectivity to non-employee users while isolating critical business services from guest traffic.
• Support for advanced network security applications such as IEEE 802.1X 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 IEEE 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 the advanced threat protection to IPv6. This comprehensive security suite includes ND inspection, 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.
• Time-based ACLs and port operation restrict access to the network during predesignated times such as business hours.
• Uniform MAC address-based security can be applied automatically to mobile users as they roam between wireless access points.
• Secure Core Technology (SCT) helps ensure that the switch is able to process management traffic in the face of a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack.
• Private VLAN Edge (PVE) provides Layer 2 isolation between devices on the same VLAN.
• Storm control can be applied to broadcast, multicast, and unknown unicast traffic.
• Protection of management sessions occurs using RADIUS, TACACS+, and local database authentication as well as secure management sessions over SSL, SSH, and SNMPv3.
• DoS attack prevention maximizes network uptime in the presence of an attack.

Power over Ethernet

Cisco 350 Series Switches are available with up to 48 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 communications technologies more quickly and at a lower cost. Models support 802.3af PoE, 802.3at PoE+, and 60 Watt PoE.

Multigigabit Performance

Network needs are changing quickly. Thanks to evolving wireless standards and the rising number of wireless devices, keeping up with data rates and growing traffic can be a challenge. Your traditional Ethernet infrastructure can support speeds up to 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps), but competing today requires much more capacity. One option is completely replacing your older cabling infrastructure and upgrading your hardware.  Cisco’s new Multigigabit Ethernet switches offer just that : an easy-to-deploy, budget-friendly solution that allows you to increase network speed and bandwidth using your existing cables. The technology also supports Power over Ethernet (PoE) forms, including PoE+ and 60W PoE. Cisco Multigigabit Ethernet switches help you avoid having to run multiple cables between switches and access points and let your networks welcome next-generation traffic speeds and data rates.

Networkwide Automatic Voice Deployment

Using a combination of Cisco Discovery Protocol, LLDP-MED, Auto Smartports, and Voice Services Discovery Protocol (or VSDP, a unique Cisco protocol), customers can deploy an end-to-end voice network dynamically. The switches in the network automatically converge around a single voice VLAN and QoS parameters and then propagate them out to the phones on the ports, where they are discovered. For example, automated voice VLAN capabilities let you plug any IP phone (including third-party phones) into your IP telephony network and receive an immediate dial tone. The switch automatically configures the device with the right VLAN and QoS parameters to prioritize voice traffic.

IPv6 Support

As the IP address scheme evolves to accommodate a growing number of network devices, Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai switch can support the transition to the next generation of networking and operating systems such as Windows 8, Vista, and Linux. The Switch 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. Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai has successfully completed rigorous IPv6 testing and have received the USGv6 and IPv6 Gold certification.

Advanced Layer 3 Traffic Management

The Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai enables a more advanced set of traffic management capabilities to help growing businesses organize their networks more effectively and efficiently. For example, the switches provide static LAN 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. Additionally, Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai provide static Layer 3 routing features. With these capabilities, you can minimize the need to manually configure routing devices and simplify the ongoing operation of the network.

Power Efficiency

The Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai switch integrates a variety of power-saving features across all models, providing the industry’s most extensive energy-efficient switching portfolio. The is designed to conserve energy by optimizing power use, which helps protects the environment and reduce your energy costs. It provides an eco-friendly network solution without compromising performance. With the following features :

• 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
• The latest Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs)
• Automatic power shutoff on ports when a link is down
• LEDs that can be turned off to save power
• Embedded intelligence to adjust signal strength based on the length of the connecting cable

Expansion Ports

The Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai provides more ports per Gigabit Ethernet switch than traditional switch models, giving you more flexibility to connect and empower your business. Gigabit Ethernet models offer 28 to 52 ports to give you more value, versus the 24-port or 48-port varieties with four shared ports that’s common in the market. The Cisco 350 Series also offers mini gigabit interface converter (mini-GBIC) expansion slots that give you the option to add fiber-optic or Gigabit Ethernet uplink connectivity to the switch. With the ability to increase the connectivity range of the switches, you have more flexibility to design your network around your unique business environment and to easily connect switches on different floors or across the business.

Peace of Mind and Investment Protection

Cisco 350 Series switches offer the reliable performance and peace of mind you expect from a Cisco switch. When you invest in Cisco SG350-28MP Dubai, you gain the benefits of :

• Limited lifetime warranty with Next-Business-Day (NBD) advance replacement (where available; otherwise same day ship).
• A solution that has been rigorously tested to help ensure optimal network uptime to keep employees connected to primary resources and productive.
• A solution designed and tested to easily and fully integrate with other Cisco voice, unified communications, security, and networking products as part of a comprehensive technology platform for your business.
• Cisco Small Business products are supported by professionals in Cisco Small Business Support Center locations worldwide who are specifically trained to understand your needs. The Cisco Small Business Support Community, an online forum, enables you to collaborate with your peers and reach Cisco technical experts for support information.

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