Cisco MS350 data sheet

Datasheet | MS Switch Series

MS Cloud Managed Access Switches

Overview

The Cisco Meraki MS brings the benefits of the cloud to networks of all sizes: simplified management, reduced complexity, network wide visibility and control, with lower operational cost for campus and branch deployments. Cisco Meraki access switching is available in both Layer 2 and powerful Layer 3 models. Mission-critical features — like deep, Layer 7 application visibility, network topology, virtual stacking, QoS for business critical applications, 802.1X access control, and more — are present in all models.

The MS350 is the flagship Meraki layer 3 stackable access switch, with high-speed connectivity including multigigabit, high availability, PoE+ and UPoE, optional redundant power supplies and fans. MS350 switches physically stack up to 8 units, with 160Gbps of stack bandwidth.

The MS220 family provides layer 2 access switching and is ideal for deploying to branch locations. This family also supports an optional, rack-mountable remote PSU 1

1 Except MS220-8/P models.

A FRESH APPROACH

Meraki switches are built from the ground up to be easy to manage without compromising any of the power and flexibility traditionally found in enterpriseclass switches.

Cisco Meraki switches are managed through an elegant, intuitive cloud interface, rather than a cryptic command line. To bring up a Meraki switch, just plug it in; there’s no need for complicated configuration files, or even direct physical access to the switch.

Meraki’s centralized management gives administrators deep visibility into the network and how it’s used. See which switches are near capacity across hundreds of sites. Find all configuration changes made by a certain person with instant search.

INDUSTRY-LEADING CLOUD MANAGEMENT

Cloud management has a number of benefits that make it easier to build networks large and small:

•Single pane of glass management of distributed switch deployments, wireless APs, and firewalls across multiple sites through the browser.

•Virtual stacking: manage up to thousands of ports from a single pane of glass.

•Layer 7 visibility with operating system, client, and hostname fingerprinting.

•Powerful Live Tools such as packet capture and cable test to isolate network issues.

•Alerts upon power loss, downtime, or configuration changes.

•Role-based administration and automatic, scheduled firmware upgrades over the web.

•Regular feature updates and enhancements delivered on demand from the Meraki cloud.

•True zero-touch provisioning

INSIDE THE MERAKI MS

MS350-48FP shown, features vary by model

Energy Efficient Power Supply	Stacking connectors	High Reliability / MTBF
with Variable Speed Fans		Extended Life Components

48× 1 GbE Ports with	Enhanced CPU / Memory	Built-in 4 × 10 GbE SFP+ Ports
802.3af/802.3at PoE/PoE+	Meraki Cloud Management	for Core Connectivity

ENTERPRISE-CLASS HARDWARE

Meraki switches feature high-end hardware and an exceptional feature set, including:

•Four built-in small form-factor pluggable SFP+ ports (two SFP ports for MS220-8/P)

•GbE, 10 GbE and 40 GbE uplink ports for high-speed connectivity to aggregation layer switches or other upstream devices

•Multigigabit ports providing up to 10Gbps on a single ethernet cable, supporting the latest WiFi performance capabilities

•Wire-speed switch fabric (up to 432 Gbps) and QoS queues per port for converged voice, video, and data deployments

•High performance 160Gbps stacking bandwidth (MS350)

•Low power consumption, quiet acoustic designs, and shallow rack depth options, enabling flexible deployment in wiring closets as well as offices and classrooms

•Fanless design on select models

•Up to 740 watt PoE budget with PoE+ support for powering APs, phones, cameras, and other PoE enabled devices (124W for MS220-8/P)

•Power over Ethernet and Universal PoE (UPoE), up to 60W

•Lifetime hardware warranty and advanced replacement at no additional cost

•Field-replaceable, hot-swappable power supplies and fans. RPS option for mission-critical applications

FULL ENTERPRISE FEATURE SET

Meraki switches include all of the traditional Ethernet features found on the highest end products, including:

•Quality-of-Service (QoS) to prioritize mission critical traffic such as voice and video

•IEEE 802.1X support for port based network access control

•MAC-based RADIUS auth and MAC whitelisting

•Voice VLAN support for simplified VoIP deployments

•Port Mirroring to monitor network traffic

•DHCP snooping to prevent users from adding unauthorized DHCP servers on the network

•IGMP Snooping to optimize network performance with multicast traffic

•Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) for high-capacity trunking, stacking, and increased availability

•Rapid spanning tree, BPDU guard, root guard, and other safeguards to help prevent misconfigurations and reduce convergence time

•Per port VLAN configuration

•Multiple administrative roles with sophisticated security policy management

•Layer 3 on MS320 and MS350 families extends routing down to the network edge

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Meraki Cloud Management Architecture

Scheduled Firmware Updates

Simplified Management and

Operations

Meraki’s cloud managed architecture makes it simpler than ever to quickly provision and reconfigure switch ports with security, QoS, and other parameters. The Meraki dashboard provides unified policies, event logs, and monitoring, which make it easy to manage and grow large network deployments.

By providing a complete, powerful set of management functions over the web, Meraki’s cloud-based management eliminates the need

for proprietary command line configuration interfaces which require expensive and time consuming certifications. Meraki MS switches can be fully deployed and provisioned in minutes, without requiring any local configuration or staging. Additional or replacement switches can be sent to remote offices and installed by non-technical staff, saving thousands of dollars in time and travel expenses.

The Meraki MS family also includes several remote diagnostic features, from network connectivity and cable integrity tests to latency measurement tools. For deep client troubleshooting, administrators can even perform per-port remote pcap packet captures without any additional probes or hardware on site.

Combined Views of Thousands of Ports

Automatic E-mail Alerts

LAYER 7 VISIBILITY

Meraki is the only switch to include integrated Layer 7 fingerprinting. Identify hundreds of applications from business apps to BitTorrent and YouTube. User fingerprinting with Google-like search allows administrators to easily identify and control individual users, PCs, iMacs, iPads, Androids, and other devices. This unprecedented visibility allows optimizing of network resources and maintaining optimal network performance.

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Integrated Remote, Live Tools

NETWORK TOPOLOGY

Cisco Meraki switches include integrated network topology, which automatically maps the whole network, shows direct and redundant links across wired and wireless infrastructure, and is essential for troubleshooting network issues that would otherwise require manual mapping, overlay monitoring software, or keeping track of MAC address tables.

Detailed Views of Individual Devices

To ease deployment, Meraki switches support the industry-standard Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) and Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP), enabling switches to automatically discover Ethernet-enabled devices, determine their power requirements and join the correct virtual LAN (VLAN).

MERAKI’S UNIFIED SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE

Meraki switches run the same Meraki operating system used by Meraki’s firewalls and wireless LAN products. The use of a common operating system allows Meraki to deliver a consistent experience across all product lines.

LAYER 3

Cisco Meraki MS320/350 series switches augment security and performance with built-in layer 3 features. Large network

deployments can use warm spare redundancy, or OSPF to manage routing between VLANs through Meraki’s intuitive, web-based dashboard.

Detail of a typical network topology view

CONVERGED VOICE, VIDEO AND DATA ENVIRONMENTS

The Meraki switch family is designed to unify data, voice, and video onto a single IP backbone. All Meraki switches support rich quality- of-service (QoS) functionality for prioritizing data, voice, and video traffic. The switches support eight class-of-service (CoS) queues on every port, enabling them to maintain end-to-end traffic prioritization.

PoE models provide power VoIP telephones, IP security cameras, wireless access points (APs), and other IP devices. The Meraki MS switches also support standards-based 25.5 watt (30 watt max per port) IEEE 802.3at for powering networked devices like multiple radio IEEE 802.11n APs, video phones and VDI terminals that may require more power than available with IEEE 802.3af. In addition, using CDP and LLDP, PoE power is intelligently budgeted to

maximize the number of PoE clients supported. For the most power- Specifying Layer 3 Subnets and Routes hungry applications, support for Cisco UPoE is also available.

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