<P>Cisco s Catalyst 3500 series XL is one of the most versatile and intelligent switches available in its class. Ideal for clustered and stacked configurations, the Catalyst 3500XL offers the scalability that a growing business needs. Extensive remote management features reduce the time and effort required of your IT department, which translates to cost savings. All in all, the Cisco Catalyst 3500XL delivers top-notch performance at a very low per-port price, making it one solution you ll definitely want to deploy within your own network. This model, the 3524XL, contains twenty-four 10/100 ports and two GBIC based Gigabit Ethernet ports. Each 10/100 port is autosensing and supports full-duplex data transfers, for up to 200Mbps of dedicated bandwidth per port. Each of the two full-duplex Gigabit ports delivers up to 2Gbps bandwidth to a range of GBIC transceivers, including Gigabit Ethernet backbones, Gigabit Ethernet servers, the Cisco GigaStack GBIC, and other switches. The Catalyst 3524XL s 10Gbps switching fabric and fast forwarding rate (up to 6.5 million packets/sec) ensures that each port will always be able to perform at its maximum capacity. </P>