Dell Campus Networking Interoperability with Cisco Catalyst 1.1
Summary: Dell Campus Networking, Cisco Catalyst, LAG, Multiple VLANs, LACP, STP, RSTP, RPVST+, MSTP, UDLD, CDP, N series, Management VLAN, Cisco Proprietary Protocols
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Published May 2015
The Dell N-Series is a family of energy efficient, PoE+ capable, high performance 1GbE and 10GbE switches designed for modernizing and scaling the Campus Network Infrastructure. N-Series switches utilize comprehensive Enterprise-Class feature sets, deliver consistent, simplified management and allow high availability network designs. This guide enables network administrators to avoid the most common pitfalls when connecting a Cisco switch to an existing Dell EMC environment, or an N-Series switch to an existing Cisco environment, including dealing with Cisco proprietary protocols, spanning tree and link aggregation between switches.
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Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 26 Mar 2026
Version: 6
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