این سوئیچ پروتکل های تحت شبکه و توانمندی های از قبیل Hot swap module replacement, Layer 2 switching, dynamic IP address assignment , DHCP support, auto-negotiation, ARP support, trunking, VLAN support, auto-uplink (auto MDI/MDI-X), IGMP snooping, Syslog support, traffic shaping, Broadcast Storm Control, High Availability, Multicast Storm Control, Unicast Storm Control, Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) support, DHCP snooping, Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP) support, Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP) support, Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) support, Access Control List (ACL) support, Quality of Service (QoS), Jumbo Frames support, MLD snooping, Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI), Cisco StackWise Technology, Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVST+), EIGRP Stub Routing, Uni-Directional Link Detection (UDLD), Shaped Round Robin (SRR), Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP), Remote Switch Port Analyzer (RSPAN) را پشتیبانی می کند.
این سوئیچ پروتکل های مدیریتی از قبیل SNMP 1, SNMP 2, RMON 1, RMON 2, RMON 3, RMON 9, Telnet, SNMP 3, SNMP 2c, HTTP, HTTPS, TFTP, SSH و ... را پشتیبانی می کند.