USB 2.0 slot to load system images and set configurations
Easy transition from 10G to 25G with dual-rate optics
Flexible downlink options with 1G Copper and Fiber as well as the densest Multigigabit links
Intelligent Power Management with Cisco StackPower technology, providing power stacking among members for power redundancy
Line-rate, hardware-based Flexible NetFlow (FNF), delivering flow collection of up to 128,000 flows
IPv6 support in hardware, providing wire-rate forwarding for IPv6 networks
Dual-stack support for IPv4/IPv6 and dynamic hardware forwarding table allocations for ease of IPv4-to-IPv6 migration
Support for both static and dynamic NAT and Port Address Translation (PAT)
IEEE 802.1ba AV Bridging (AVB) built in to provide a better audio and video experience through improved time synchronization and QoS
Precision Time Protocol (PTP; IEEE 1588v2) provides accurate clock synchronization with sub-microsecond accuracy making it suitable for distribution and synchronization of time and frequency over network