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Catalyst 3508G XL

Ethernet Switch

The Catalyst

®

 3508G XL eight-port stackable

Gigabit Ethernet switch is a member of the Cisco

Systems Catalyst 3500 Series XL, a scalable

line of stackable 10/100 and Gigabit Ethernet

switches that delivers best-in-class performance,

manageability, and flexibility with unparalleled

investment protection.

The Catalyst 3508G XL switch features eight

Gigabit Interface Converter (GBIC)-based

1000Base-X ports and a 10-Gbps switching

fabric. These features make this switch ideal for

either high speed wiring closet stack aggregation

or a distribution layer Gigabit Ethernet

aggregation switch. The switch is easy to deploy,

either on a desktop or in a wiring closet, and

features Cisco IOS

®

 software support.

Administration of the Cisco desktop Catalyst

switches is made even more convenient via Cisco

Switch Clustering technology.

The Catalyst 3508G XL is a single RU,

stackable Gigabit Ethernet switch with eight
GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet ports. The Catalyst
3508G XL is ideal for aggregating a group of 10/100
and Gigabit Ethernet switches and Gigabit Ethernet
servers through Cisco GigaStack

™

GBICs or standard

1000Base-X GBICs.

The Catalyst 3500 Series XL and Gigabit

Ethernet-enabled Catalyst 2900 Series XL

switches can be stacked using the low-cost Cisco

GigaStack GBIC. The GigaStack GBIC offers a

range of highly flexible stacking and performance

options. Customers can connect up to nine

switches in a star configuration with up to 5-Gbps

of stack bandwidth using the Catalyst 3508G

Gigabit Ethernet aggregation switch. Network

managers may use available GBIC ports to

create high-speed uplinks to the network core

using standard Gigabit Ethernet or Gigabit

EtherChannel

®

 technologies. The GBIC ports

support all Cisco GBICs including 1000Base-T,

1000Base-SX, 1000Base-LX/LH, and

1000Base-ZX providing exceptional flexibility

for Gig-based network designs. High resiliency

can also be implemented by deploying dual

redundant Gigabit Ethernet uplinks, Uplink Fast

and Cross-Stack Uplink Fast technologies for

high-speed uplink and stack interconnection

failover, and per VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST+)

for uplink load balancing. This Gigabit Ethernet

flexibility makes the Catalyst 3500 series XL

an ideal complement to the Cisco Catalyst 6500

family of Gigabit Ethernet optimized core

LAN switches, and allows today’s customer

investments to be used in various

price-to-performance configurations overtime.