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Hi there,<br />
At the moment I have a cisco switch 2960. &nbsp;I was wondering if Cisco has the same model type switches which does IPS built in(network security) as well as switching?. &nbsp;Since I have to replace my switches 2960 to new ones, I was thinking of buying switches which can do IPS filtering as well ?
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Hi there,
At the moment I have a cisco switch 2960.  I was wondering if Cisco has the same model type switches which does IPS built in(network security) as well as switching?.  Since I have to replace my switches 2960 to new ones, I was thinking of buying switches which can do IPS filtering as well ?

Cisco catalyst switch which does same job as NME-IPS K9

Cisco PIX is a dedicated hardware firewall appliance; the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) is a firewall and anti-malware security appliance that provides unified threat management and protection the PIX does not. Other Cisco devices and systems include routers, switches, storage networking, wireless and the software and hardware for PIX Firewall Manager (PFM), PIX Device Manager (PDM) and Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM).

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A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.