Cisco Catalyst 2960 Software Configuration Manual page 69

Chapter 1 Overview
Table 1-2 Providing Network Services (continued)
Network Demands
An evolving demand for IP telephony
A growing demand for using existing
infrastructure to transport data and
voice from a home or office to the
Internet or an intranet at higher
speeds
You can use the switches and switch stacks to create the following:
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Stacking is supported only on Catalyst 2960-S switches running the LAN base image.
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Suggested Design Methods
Use QoS to prioritize applications such as IP telephony during congestion and to
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help control both delay and jitter within the network.
Use switches that support at least two queues per port to prioritize voice and data
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traffic as either high- or low-priority, based on IEEE 802.1p/Q. The switch
supports at least four queues per port.
• Use voice VLAN IDs (VVIDs) to provide separate VLANs for voice traffic.
Use the Catalyst Long-Reach Ethernet (LRE) switches to provide up to 15 Mb of IP
connectivity over existing infrastructure, such as existing telephone lines.
Note To use LRE, the switch must be running the LAN Base image.
LRE is the technology used in the Catalyst 2900 LRE XL and Catalyst 2950
Note
LRE switches. See the documentation sets specific to these switches for LRE
information.
Cost-effective wiring closet
closet is to have a switch stack of up to four Catalyst 2960-S switches. To preserve switch
connectivity if one switch in the stack fails, connect the switches as recommended in the hardware
installation guide, and enable either cross-stack Etherchannel or cross-stack UplinkFast.
You can have redundant uplink connections, using SFP modules in the switch stack to a Gigabit
backbone switch, such as a Catalyst 4500 or Catalyst 3750-12S Gigabit switch. You can also create
backup paths by using Fast Ethernet, Gigabit, or EtherChannel links. If one of the redundant
connections fails, the other can serve as a backup path. If the Gigabit switch is cluster-capable, you
can configure it and the switch stack as a switch cluster to manage them through a single IP address.
The Gigabit switch can be connected to a Gigabit server through a 1000BASE-T connection.
Catalyst 2960 and 2960-S Switches Software Configuration Guide, Release 15.0(1)SE
(Figure 1-1)—A cost-effective way to connect many users to the wiring
Network Configuration Examples
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