Business Applications; Features And Benefits - Cisco SG300-20 Datasheet

Business Applications

Whether you need a basic high-performance network to connect employee computers or a solution to deliver data, voice,
and video services, the Cisco 300 Series offers a solution to meet your needs. Possible deployment scenarios include:
Secure desktop connectivity: Cisco 300 Series Switches can simply and securely connect employees
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working in small offices with each other and with all of the servers, printers, and other devices they use. High
performance and reliable connectivity helps speed file transfers and data processing, improves network
uptime, and keeps your employees connected and productive.
Secure wireless connectivity: Cisco 300 Series Switches allow employees to work productively from
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conference rooms and common areas, collaborate in any office, and access business applications from
wherever they are. Gigabit Ethernet connectivity helps ensure that your employees have the bandwidth and
performance they need to make the most of mobile productivity. And with embedded security, your
employees can work with confidence, knowing that only authorized users can access applications and
network devices.
Unified communications: As a managed network solution, the Cisco 300 Series provides the performance
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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 small businesses. Cisco 300 Series Switches have been rigorously tested to help ensure easy
integration and full compatibility with these and other products, providing a complete small business solution.
Highly secure guest connectivity. Cisco 300 Series Switches let you extend highly secure network
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connectivity to guests in a variety of settings, such as a hotel, an office waiting room, or any other area open to
nonemployee 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.

Features and Benefits

Cisco 300 Series Switches provide security, performance, traffic management, and other capabilities – optimized
and customized, and at the right price for small businesses. The Cisco 300 Series provides:
High performance and reliability: Cisco 300 Series Switches have been rigorously tested to deliver the high
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availability and performance you expect from a Cisco switch. The solutions speed up file transfer times and
improve slow, sluggish networks, while keeping your vital business applications available and preventing
costly downtime. As a managed switching solution, the Cisco 300 Series also gives you the flexibility to
manage and prioritize high-bandwidth traffic such as voice. That means you can empower your employees
with state-of-the-art communication and productivity solutions, without draining the performance of your other
business applications.
Fast, easy setup and configuration: Cisco 300 Series Switches are designed to be easy to use and
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manage by small businesses and the partners who serve them. The included device manager software
provides an intuitive, web-based interface to simplify setup, security, and quality of service (QoS) traffic
prioritization, allowing even users without IT expertise to configure the switch in minutes. Cisco also provides
a utility that works through a simple toolbar on the user's web browser to discover Cisco devices in the
network and display basic information, such as serial numbers and IP addresses, to aid in the configuration
and deployment of Cisco Small Business products. For more information, and to download the utility, please
visit www.cisco.com/go/sb_toolbar. These switches use Cisco Discovery Protocol to automatically detect all
the devices connected to your network, and then automatically configure themselves for the appropriate
connectivity and security. For more advanced capabilities and hands-on control, simple-to-use graphical tools
such as Cisco Smartports provide preset options for configuring each port on a switch, based on Cisco best
practices and pretested configurations. Although the Cisco 300 Series is designed to be deployed without
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