Enhanced Network Security, Availability, and Manageability for Intelligent Small Business Networksatures:

The network is an increasingly critical component of today’s small business. Built with the right foundation components, your network should be an important part of building value and success.

The Cisco® Catalyst® 2960-S and 2960 Series Switches with LAN Lite software provide the security and performance that your business applications demand and are scalable to support your continually evolving network environment. By providing
these capabilities in your network foundation, you can improve the availability of your critical applications, protect your business information, more easily accommodate expanding services, and optimize your network bandwidth to more effectively deliver
information and applications.

A solid network foundation will give you:

• The performance needed to support demanding
• Applications and services 24/7.
• Enhanced security to protect business assets and comply with regulatory requirements.
• Basic network intelligence to more smoothly handle dataintensive IP voice and video traffic.
• Create a highly scalable network foundation that can be easily managed and centrally controlled with choice of management tools.
• Support advanced technology deployments such as IP telephony and wireless LANs.
• Improved employee productivity and customer responsiveness by preserving the availability of essential business applications and supporting advanced IP voice and video services.nhanced Cisco EnergyWise technology.

The Cisco Catalyst 2960-S and 2960 Series with LAN Lite software features:
 

• Robust connectivity to the desktop maintains the optimal usage of network bandwidth, alleviating bottlenecks and boosting application performance.
• Enhanced security, including support for identity services,access control and secure encryption of administrative traffic, provides network protection.

• Power over Ethernet (PoE) powers IP phones, wireless access points, and video cameras directly over the Ethernet connection, without an external power supply, simplifying deployment and eliminating the need and cost of installing separate power supplies.

• Quality of service (QoS) intelligence classifies traffic on the network, prioritizes important applications, and optimizes network bandwidth to boost network performance.Cisco

• EnergyWise monitors and manages power consumption to optimize power delivery and reduce energy costs.

• Simple, scalable management with the choice of a command-line interface (CLI) or the web-based Cisco Network Assistant featuring Cisco SmartPort technology.

• Long-term investment protection with a limited lifetime hardware warranty and ongoing software updates at no additional cost., more easily accommodate expanding services, and optimize your network bandwidth to more effectively deliver
  information and applications.