Cisco Switch Stack Benefits and Commands Cisco Switch Stacking Using a Couple of Cisco Catalyst 3650 Speaking of Stacking switches, we have to pay more attention to Cisco’s switches that support stacking. Cisco has a big and powerful family of stacking switches, such as the Cisco 2960X, 3560X, the 3750-X, Cisco 3650, 3850 switches, etc. There are various stacking technologies, including FlexStack, FlexStack Plus, StackWise, StackWise Plus, StackWise-160 and StackWise-
480… In this article, we will share some examples of Cisco switch stacking using a couple of Cisco Catalyst 3650. When put in a stack, Cisco Catalyst switches form a single switch. And the stack cabling form what is called a “stack ring”. The stack ring is characterized by its speed. Cisco Switch Stacking Benefits Some of the benefits are related to stacking: •
More port density and less trunking: when you run out of switch ports, you need to add another switch. Obviously, you think of connecting it throught a trunk link. This means additional configuration. Instead, putting the new switch in a stack with the old one saves you some time. It’s simply connecting both switches with a stack cable and you have two switches.
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Ease of management: instead of assigning an IP address to each switch, we assign a single IP address to the stack.