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Power over Ethernet: 24 full PoE port and 24-port (PoE supported on 8 ports) configurations
Connectivity: Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity in 8-port, 24-port, and 48-port configurations
Integrated security, including network admission control (NAC)
Advanced quality of service (QoS) and resiliency
Single IP address, syslog, and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) management for a stack of up to [...]

The Cisco Catalyst 2960 LAN Base Series offers:

PoE configurations up to 48 ports
Intelligent features at the network edge, such as sophisticated access control lists (ACLs) and enhanced security
Networked Sustainability: Cisco EnergyWise to measure, report and reduce energy usage across the entire organization
Dual-purpose uplinks for Gigabit Ethernet uplink flexibility, allowing use of [...]

A Layer 3 switch is a high-performance device for network routing.
Layer 3 switch can be deployed anywhere in the LAN where a traditional router can be or has been used.
A Layer 3 switch can support the same routing protocols as network routers do.
A traditional router organizes bridging (Layer 2) and routing (Layer 3) as peers. [...]

All Cisco routers have a 16-bit software register (NVRAM). By default, the configuration register
is set to load the Cisco IOS from flash memory and to look for and load the startup-config file from NVRAM.

how the router boots (into ROMmon, NetBoot)
options while booting (ignore configuration, disable boot messages
console speed (baud rate for a terminal emulation session)

To [...]

Switches use one of three methods for routing traffic:

Cut-through
Store and forward
Fragment-free

Cut-through:

Switches only read the MAC address as soon as a packet is detected by the switch.
Address consists of   six bytes therefore switch  store the six bytes.
After this the switches immediately begin to send the packet to the destination node, even though the rest of [...]