Cisco Meraki MS355-24X2 Switch

Simplified Management and Operations

Meraki’s cloud-managed architecture makes it simpler than ever to quickly provision and configure 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, robust 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 local configuration or staging. New 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 includes several remote diagnostic features; including ping, traceroute, cable test, and latency measurement tools. For in-depth client troubleshooting, administrators can remotely perform port-level packet captures without additional hardware.

Designed for Reliability & Environmental Efficiency

The Meraki switch family was designed for reliable, long-lived operation in wiring closet environments, which may be prone to high temperatures and limited ventilation.

Meraki is able to deliver highly reliable products with exceptional mean time between failure (MTBF) ratings by using proven switching silicon and by minimizing total component count.

Each switch also operates with a split-plane architecture, where silicon-based switching and data forwarding are separated from software-based control and management.

By decoupling the underlying switching logic from control, each unit is able to deliver wire-speed switching even when advanced software features such as Layer 7 host and OS fingerprinting are enabled.

The highly integrated designs of Meraki switches result in power and cooling savings in large deployment environments of 30-60% when compared with similar managed switches.

Campus Edge

MS switches are ideal for small and large scale campus deployments, where reliability, scalability, and manageability are top priorities:

• Physical stacking for increased redundancy
• Warm spare failover for all stacking switches
• Get alerts if a switch fails or goes offline, before it impacts users

• 24 × 100M/1/2.5/5/10G Ethernet RJ45
• 4 × 10G SFP+
• 2 × 40G QSFP+ uplinks
• 2 × 100G QSFP28 stacking ports
• Auto negotiation and crossover detection

• Managed via the Web with the Meraki cloud management platform
• Integrated with Meraki Wireless and complete portfolio of IT products and solutions
• Zero-touch remote provisioning (no staging needed)
• Detailed historical per-port and per-client usage statistics
• Operating system, device, and hostname fingerprinting
• SNMP and SYSLOG support for integration with other network management solutions
• Automatic firmware upgrades with scheduling control

• Email, SMS and Mobile push notification alerts
• Ping, traceroute, cable testing, and link failure detection with alerting
• Remote packet capture
• Dynamic and interactive network discovery and topology
• Combined event and configuration change logs with instant search

• Physical stacking of up to 8 switches with 400 Gbps stacking bandwidth on all models
• Virtual Stacking supports thousands of switch ports in a single logical stack for unified management, monitoring, and configuration

• 802.1p Quality of Service, 8 queues (w/ 6 configurable for DSCP-to-CoS mapping)
• 802.1Q VLAN and trunking support for up to 4,094 VLANs
• 802.1w, 802.1D Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP, STP)
• STP Enhancements: BPDU guard, Root guard, Loop guard, UDLD
• Broadcast storm control
• 802.1ab Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) and Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
• 802.3ad Link aggregation with up to 8 ports per aggregate, Multichassis aggregates supported on stacked switches
• Port mirroring
• IGMP snooping for multicast filtering
• MAC forwarding entries: 32K

• Integrated multi-factor authentication for Dashboard management
• Role-based access control (RBAC) with granular device and configuration control
• Corporate-wide password policy enforcement
• IEEE 802.1X RADIUS and MAB, hybrid authentication, and RADIUS server testing
• Single-Host/Multi-Domain/Multi-Host/Multi Authentication
• Port security: Sticky MAC, MAC whitelisting
• DHCP snooping, detection and blocking, Dynamic ARP Inspection
• IPv4 and IPv6 ACLs

• Switching capacity: 640 Gbps
• Forwarding rate: 476 mpps
• Jumbo frame support (9600 byte Ethernet frame)
• Flow control support

• Static routing, OSPFv2
• Multicast routing
• Warm spare (VRRP)
• DHCP Relay, DHCP Server

• Power input: 100-240 VAC, 47-63 Hz
• Power consumption: 110-1793 W max
• 48V DC 802.3af/802.3at Power-over-Ethernet (PoE/PoE+/UPoE) available on all ports (maximum of 60W per port for UPoE) for powered switches

• 1U rack-mountable with included rack mount hardware
• 4 post rack mount support

• Operating temperature: 0°C to 45°C
• Humidity: 5 to 95% non-condensing
• Variable speed fans

• CSA-US (US, Canada)
• FCC (USA)
• IC (Canada)
• CE (Europe)
• RCM (Australia/New Zealand)
• RoHS

• 1.72” × 19.08” × 20.34” (4.37cm × 48.46cm × 51.66cm)
• 12.08 lb (5.90 kg)

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