The Cisco Catalyst 2960-X Series Switches are stackable fixed-configuration Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000) switches offering network connectivity for enterprise, midmarket, and branch locations. They enable reliable and secure business operations with lower total cost of ownership through a range of innovative features, including Cisco FlexStack-Plus, application visibility and control, Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+), innovative power management, and Smart Operations. 

The Cisco Catalyst 2960-X models provide Layer 2 switching and have one fixed power supply with an external redundant power supply. They provide 24 or 48 Gigabit Ethernet wire rate ports, PoE/PoE+ support, and four 1G Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) or two 10G SFP+ uplinks. With FlexStack-Plus technology, the Cisco Catalyst 2960-X switches can be stacked up to 8 members with up to 80 Gbps stacking capacity for high scalability.

 The Cisco Catalyst 2960-XR models offer all the features of the Cisco Catalyst 2960- X. In addition, they have two field-replaceable redundant power supply modules for power redundancy. They also introduce Layer 3 routing functionality for the first time in the Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series.

NetFlow-Lite Capabilities

NetFlow-Lite provides a granular packet-sampling mechanism that is adjustable up to 1:32 and available for all interfaces. The implication is that a subset of all packets passing through the Cisco Catalyst 2960X will be selected for reporting.

Some of the Benefits:

1) Network topology view with end-to-end traffic flows

2) Device view showing traffic flowing through the device

3) A rich set of flow analysis reports