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 3508GXL, contains eight GBIC based Gigabit Ethernet ports. Each Gigabit port supports full-duplex operation and 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 3508GXL's 10Gbps switching fabric and fast forwarding rate (up to 7.5 million packets/sec) ensures that each port will always be able to perform at its maximum capacity.