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 Ecient Power Supply
with Variable Speed Fans

48× 1 GbE Ports with

802.3af/802.3at PoE/PoE+

Enhanced CPU / Memory
Meraki Cloud Management

Stacking connectors High Reliability / MTBF

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)

Extended Life Components

Built-in 4 × 10 GbE SFP+ Ports
for Core Connectivity

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 trac such
as voice and video

• 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 oces 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

• 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 trac

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

• IGMP Snooping to optimize network performance with
multicast trac

• 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

Combined Views of Thousands of Ports

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 oces and installed by non-technical
sta, 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.

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 Detailed Views of Individual Devices

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.

Detail of a typical network topology view

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.

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 quality­of-service (QoS) functionality for prioritizing data, voice, and video
trac. The switches support eight class-of-service (CoS) queues on
every port, enabling them to maintain end-to-end trac 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 power­hungry applications, support for Cisco UPoE is also available.

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Specifying Layer 3 Subnets and Routes