Cisco 500 Series Administration Guide

Getting Started
Interface Naming Conventions
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Interface Naming Conventions
Within the GUI, interfaces are denoted by concatenating the following elements:
• Type of interface: The following types of interfaces are found on the various
types of devices:
- Fast Ethernet (10/100 bits)—These are displayed as FE.
- Gigabit Ethernet ports (10/100/1000 bits)—These are displayed as
GE.
- <500>Ten Gigabit Ethernet ports (10000 bits)—These are displayed
as XG.
- LAG (Port Channel)—These are displayed as LAG.
- VLAN—These are displayed as VLAN.
- Tunnel —These are displayed as Tunnel.
• <500>Unit Number—Number of the unit in the stack. In standalone mode
this is always 1.
• <500>Slot Number—The slot number is either 1 or 2.
• Interface Number: Port, LAG, tunnel or VLAN ID
Differences Between 500 Devices<500>
This guide is relevant for both Sx500, SG500X,SG500XG and ESW2-550X
devices. Notes are provided when a feature is relevant for one but not all of these
devices.
The following summarizes the differences between these devices:
• The RIP and VRRP features are only supported on SG500X, SG500XG, and
ESW2-550X devices, running in standalone mode and in advanced hybrid
stack of SG500X and Sx500 devices - see Administration: Stack
Management for more details).
• TCAM size, see TCAM Utilization
• Stack ports are different on these devices. See Default Stack and
Network Ports.

Cisco 500 Series Specifications

General

Model	Cisco 500 Series
Category	Switch
Mounting	Rack-mountable
Management	Web-based, CLI, SNMP
Ports	24, 48
Port Speed	10/100/1000 Mbps
PoE Support	Available on some models
Switching Capacity	Up to 176 Gbps
MAC Address Table Size	16, 000 entries
Security	ACLs, 802.1X
Quality of Service (QoS)	Yes
Dimensions	Varies by model
Weight	Varies by model
Humidity	10% to 90% non-condensing
Power Supply	Internal
Power Consumption	Varies by model
Jumbo Frame Support	Up to 9216 bytes