Critical Building Block for Any Small Office Network
To stay ahead in a competitive marketplace, businesses need to make every dollar count. That means getting
the most value from your technology investments, but it also means making sure that employees have fast,
reliable access to the business tools and information they need. Every minute an employee waits for an
unresponsive application and every minute your network is down has an effect on your profits. The importance
of maintaining a strong and dependable business network only grows as your business adds more employees,
applications, and network complexity.
When your business needs advanced networking features and security for your digital transformation yet value
is still a top consideration, you’re ready for the new generation of managed switches: the Cisco® Business 350
Series Switches (Figure 1).
Figure 1.
Cisco Business 350 Series Managed Switches
Cisco business 350 series switches
The Cisco Business 350 Series Switches, part of the Cisco Business line of network solutions, is a portfolio of
affordable managed switches that provides a critical building block for any small office network. Intuitive
dashboard simplifies network setup, and advanced features accelerate digital transformation, while pervasive
security protects business critical transactions. The Cisco Business 350 Series Switches provide the ideal
combination of affordability and capabilities for small office and helps you create a more efficient, betterconnected workforce.
The Cisco Business 350 Series Switches is a family of fixed-configuration managed Ethernet switches. Models
are available with 8 to 48 ports of Gigabit Ethernet connectivity and Gigabit or 10-Gigabit uplinks, providing
optimal flexibility to create exactly the right building block for small office networks. However, unlike other small
business switching solutions that provide managed network capabilities only in the costliest models, all Cisco
Business 350 Series Switches support the advanced security management capabilities and network features
you need to support enterprise-class data, voice, security, and wireless technologies. At the same time, these
switches are simple to deploy and configure, allowing you to take advantage of the managed network services
your business needs.
Whether you need a basic high-performance network to connect employee computers or a solution to deliver
data, voice, and video services, the Cisco 350 Business Series Switches offer a solution to meet your needs.
Possible deployment scenarios include:
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Small office networking: The versatility and affordability of the Cisco Business 350 Series Switches
provide an ideal enterprise-class networking foundation for small offices with limited IT support and
budget.
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Secure office connectivity: Cisco Business 350 Series Switches can simply and securely connect
employees working in small offices with each other and with all of the servers, printers, and other
networking 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.
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Unified communications: As a managed network solution, the Cisco Business 350 Series Switches
provide 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 Business 350 Series Switches
have been rigorously tested to help ensure easy integration and full compatibility with these and other
products, providing a complete business solution.
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Highly secure guest connectivity. Cisco Business 350 Series Switches let you extend 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 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 Business 350 Series Switches provide the advanced feature set that growing businesses require and that
high-bandwidth applications and technologies demand. These switches can improve the availability of your
critical applications, protect your business information, and optimize your network bandwidth to more
effectively deliver information and support applications. The switches provide the following benefits.
Ease of Management and Deployment
Cisco Business 350 Series Switches are designed to be easy to use and manage by commercial customers or
the partners that serve them, including the following features:
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Cisco Business Dashboard is designed to manage Cisco Business switches, routers, and wireless access
points. Cisco Business Dashboard simplifies traditional challenges in deploying and managing business
networks while automating the deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of the network. Cisco
Business 350 Series switches support embedded probe for Cisco Business Dashboard, eliminating the
need to set up a separate hardware or virtual machine on site. For more information, visit
https://www.cisco.com/go/cbd
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The intuitive user interfaces reduce the time required to deploy, troubleshoot, and manage the network
and allow you to support sophisticated capabilities without increasing IT head count.
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The switches also support Text view, a full Command-Line Interface (CLI) option for partners that prefer
it.
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 ensure business
continuity and that employees can always access the data and resources they need. The Cisco Business 350
Series Switches support 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 Business 350 Series Switches provide the advanced security features you need to protect your business
data and keep unauthorized users off the network:
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Embedded Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption protects management data traveling to and from the
switch.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
Power over Ethernet
Cisco Business 350 Series Switches are available with up to 48 Power over Ethernet (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 and 802.3at PoE+.
Networkwide Automatic Voice Deployment
Using a combination of Cisco Discovery Protocol, Link Layer Discovery Protocol-Media Endpoint
Discovery (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 Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) and Quality of Service (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.
As the IP address scheme evolves to accommodate a growing number of network devices, the Cisco Business
350 Series Switches can support the transition to the next generation of networking. These switches 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
Business 350 Series Switches have successfully completed rigorous IPv6 testing and have received the USGv6
and IPv6 Gold certification.
Advanced Layer 3 Traffic Management
The Cisco Business 350 Series Switches enable 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.
Compact Design
The sleek and compact design for the Cisco Business 350 Series Switches provide additional deployment
flexibility, including outside wiring closet installation such as retail stores, open plan offices, and classrooms
without disturbing the environment.
Power Efficiency
The Cisco Business 350 Series Switches integrate a variety of power-saving features across all models,
providing the industry’s most extensive energy-efficient switching portfolio. These switches are designed to
conserve energy by optimizing power use, which helps protects the environment and reduce your energy costs.
They provide an eco-friendly network solution without compromising performance. Cisco Business 350 Series
Switches feature:
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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
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Automatic power shutoff on ports when a link is down
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Embedded intelligence to adjust signal strength based on the length of the connecting cable
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Fanless design in most models, which reduces power consumption, increases reliability, and provides
quieter operation
Peace of Mind and Investment Protection
Cisco Business 350 Series Switches offer the reliable performance and peace of mind you expect from a Cisco
switch. A solution that has been rigorously tested to help ensure optimal network uptime to ensure business
continuity. Complementary one-year access to our Small Business Support Center for ongoing support. Limited
lifetime warranty with Next-Business-Day (NBD) advance replacement (where available) keeps your business
running smoothly.
Fast convergence using 802.1w (Rapid Spanning Tree [RSTP]), enabled by default
Multiple Spanning Tree instances using 802.1s (MSTP); 8 instances are supported
Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVST+) and Rapid PVST+ (RPVST+); 126 instances are
supported
Port grouping/link
aggregation
Support for IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
● Up to 8 groups
● Up to 8 ports per group with 16 candidate ports for each (dynamic) 802.3ad link aggregation
VLAN
Support for up to 4,094 VLANs simultaneously
Port-based and 802.1Q tag-based VLANs; MAC-based VLAN; protocol-based VLAN; IP
subnet-based VLAN
Management VLAN
Private VLAN with promiscuous, isolated, and community port
Private VLAN Edge (PVE), also known as protected ports, with multiple uplinks
Guest VLAN, unauthenticated VLAN
Dynamic VLAN assignment via RADIUS server along with 802.1x client authentication
CPE VLAN
Voice VLAN
Voice traffic is automatically assigned to a voice-specific VLAN and treated with appropriate
levels of QoS. Auto voice capabilities deliver network wide zero-touch deployment of voice
endpoints and call control devices
Multicast TV VLAN
Multicast TV VLAN allows the single multicast VLAN to be shared in the network while
subscribers remain in separate VLANs. This feature is also known as Multicast VLAN
Registration (MVR)
VLAN Translation
Support for VLAN One-to-One Mapping. In VLAN One-to-One Mapping, on an edge
interface customer VLANs (C-VLANs) are mapped to service provider VLANs (S-VLANs)
and the original C-VLAN tags are replaced by the specified S-VLAN
Q-in-Q
VLANs transparently cross a service provider network while isolating traffic among
customers
Selective Q-in-Q
Selective Q-in-Q is an enhancement to the basic Q-in-Q feature and provides, per edge
interface, multiple mappings of different C-VLANs to separate S-VLANs
Selective Q-in-Q also allows configuring of Ethertype (Tag Protocol Identifier [TPID]) of the
S-VLAN tag
Layer 2 protocol tunneling over Q-in-Q is also supported
Generic VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP) and Generic Attribute Registration Protocol
(GARP) enable automatic propagation and configuration of VLANs in a bridged domain
Unidirectional Link
UDLD monitors physical connection to detect unidirectional links caused by incorrect wiring
or cable/port faults to prevent forwarding loops and black holing of traffic in switched
networks
Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol
(DHCP) Relay at Layer 2
Relay of DHCP traffic to DHCP server in different VLAN; works with DHCP Option 82
Internet Group
Management Protocol
(IGMP) versions 1, 2, and 3
snooping
IGMP limits bandwidth-intensive multicast traffic to only the requesters; supports 2K
multicast groups (source-specific multicasting is also supported)
IGMP Querier
IGMP querier is used to support a Layer 2 multicast domain of snooping switches in the
absence of a multicast router
Head-of-Line (HOL)
blocking
HOL blocking prevention
Loopback Detection
Loopback detection provides protection against loops by transmitting loop protocol packets
out of ports on which loop protection has been enabled. It operates independently of STP
Layer 3
IPv4 routing
Wirespeed routing of IPv4 packets
Up to 990 static routes and up to 128 IP interfaces
IPv6 routing
Wirespeed routing of IPv6 packets
Layer 3 Interface
Configuration of Layer 3 interface on physical port, Link Aggregation (LAG), VLAN interface,
or loopback interface
Classless Interdomain
Routing (CIDR)
Support for classless interdomain routing
Policy-Based Routing (PBR)
Flexible routing control to direct packets to different next hop based on IPv4 or IPv6 Access
Control List (ACL)
DHCP Server
Switch functions as an IPv4 DHCP server serving IP addresses for multiple DHCP
pools/scopes
Support for DHCP options
DHCP relay at Layer 3
Relay of DHCP traffic across IP domains
User Datagram Protocol
(UDP) relay
Relay of broadcast information across Layer 3 domains for application discovery or relaying
of Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP)/DHCP packets