Product Overview

Advanced Features for Demanding Environments at an Affordable Price

Your business is growing, and that means more customers, more opportunities, and more attention on your company. The only problem: Your network was built for a smaller operation. As you add more devices, applications, and users, your IT environment will become increasingly difficult and expensive to manage. Even worse, as the network becomes more complex and overloaded, your users are likely to see sluggish performance and even outages.

With customers and employees depending on your business more than ever before, a slow or unreliable network is not an option. You need an IT backbone that provides excellent performance, nonstop availability, and advanced security. The ideal network will be easy to manage, support advanced features that will grow with your company, and be at a price that's affordable.

Eliminate downtime and improve network redundancy with the SF550X-24-K9 24 Port Fast Ethernet Managed Switch from Cisco. This network switch comes equipped with 24 Fast Ethernet ports, 2 10GBase-T/SFP+ ports, and 2 SFP+ ports giving network administrators a wealth of connectivity options. Backing up the plethora network ports, this Cisco switch comes supports an 84.4 Gbps switching capacity and a 63.09 Mpps forwarding rate to ensure data flows smoothly about the switch. Inside the SF550X series switch is an 800 MHz dual-core ARM processor along with 512 MB RAM and 256 MB flash memory. This Cisco SF550X series switch is designed around redundancy and network uptime as it can easily be stacked with other compatible network switches. In this setup switches are designed to work in conjunction with one another so if one switch fails another carries the load thus mitigating network downtime or avoiding it altogether. The SF550X is also energy efficient as it comes compatible with the IEEE 802.3az network standard allowing it to monitor network usage and adjust the power output accordingly. The Cisco SF550X is easy to deploy and use as it supports a variety of advanced management features including a graphical user interface, configuration wizards, command-line interface capabilities, Cisco Discovery Protocol, SNMP support, and more.