The Catalyst family of modular and fixed-configuration managed switches offers performance and intelligence at the access, distribution, and core areas of converged voice, video, and data networks for organizations that range from small businesses and branch offices to global enterprises and service providers. Progent's Cisco-certified consultants can provide online and on-premises expertise with Catalyst switches to assist you to design a cost-effective network topology that meets your specific business needs, configure pilot testing, deploy Catalyst switches, establish and validate a sound security and compliance strategy, automate system management and performance tracking, deliver repair and support services, optimize switch capacity, and set up Catalyst's fault-tolerant solutions for non-stop operation.

Progent can assist you to manage and troubleshoot your legacy Catalyst switches or migrate smoothly to the latest models of Catalyst switches adhering to industry best practices to make sure that you get the most return from your investment in your IT infrastructure.

The demand for smart, fast switching is driven by a combination of relatively new computing patterns whose net impact is a cyber tsunami of data traffic:

  • Cloud and IoT computing and a consequent demand for intensive network virtualization
  • The proliferation of always-connected mobile devices
  • Bandwidth-intensive rich media applications
  • Social media for business
  • The popularity of Big Data in enterprise data analytics
  • Ever more sophisticated cyberattacks such as ransomware
Cloud computing is only made practical because of virtualization technology. Virtualized infrastructures slash costs by allowing very high hardware utilization and requiring very little real estate and power use. But this also requires that relatively sparse resources have to support large volumes of traffic. The Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) revolution has created a steep increase in the number of mobile users that have be handled by IT networks, and these clients run a great deal of data-intensive, HD video apps. Social media for business is displacing traditional email as the primary driver for workforce collaboration and is generating a growing demand for data. Businesses who want to stay competitive are adopting Big Data techniques to mine vast and varied repositories of corporate data, which in turn produces Big Network Traffic. These trends are relatively new, and put together they create a serious demand for a new class of switches that offer significantly higher throughput, control, uptime and manageability than older solutions were engineered to provide.

Cisco's current lineup of Catalyst switches are best suited for the distribution and core layers layers of campus environments where office employees must be supported with predictable performance, strict access management, tight group isolation, application awareness, and wired/wireless convergence. Catalyst switches are designed to meet the demand for performance and control with features that include high-density 10, 40, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet services, switching performance over 25T per switch, an extensive catalog of technologies including Easy Virtual Network to facilitate the creation of VLANs, VSS technology for stateful interchassis failover with subsecond virtual switch restoration and 99.999% availability, IPv6 support, Application Visibility and Control to maximize network resource usage, and sophisticated Quality of Service capabilities for critical traffic control.

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Cisco Can Provide Catalyst Switches for Organizations of All Sizes

Cisco Catalyst switches allow organizations of any size to benefit from incorporating intelligent switching services into their network infrastructure, deploying an environment that can meet current requirements, expand to accommodate expected growth, guard vital information, and differentiate and control tasks to enhance network operations.

Catalyst 1000 Series Fixed Ethernet Switches
Cisco Catalyst 1000 Series Switches ConsultantsCisco's Catalyst 1000 Series access switches are compact, fixed-configuration switches intended for small businesses and branch offices with up to 250 workers and with little if any internal IT expertise. The Catalyst 1000 line includes fanless models for quiet operation within an office environment. Mounting alternatives include desktop, wall or shelf mount, standard rack mount, and DIN. Created as an easy upgrade for Cisco Catalyst 2960-L/2960-Plus Series deployments, Cisco's Catalyst 1000 Series includes models with 8 to 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports or 24 to 48 Fast Ethernet 10/100M ports.

Catalyst 1000 set up and administration are simple using a web interface or CLI, cybersecurity is enterprise-grade, and PoE+ capability with an automatically allocated budget of 740W allows a broad variety of Internet of Things implementations. As many as eight Catalyst 1000 Gigabit Ethernet Series switches can be controlled together with single IP. Catalyst 1000 models are line-rate devices, and all are based on Cisco's familiar IOS Software. QoS capabilities include egress queues on each port plus priority queuing to allow optimized performance for time-critical traffic. Catalyst Series 1000 switches also support Shaped Round Robin service scheduling and Weighted Tail Drop congestion management.

Catalyst 9000 Fixed and Modular Managed Switches
The Catalyst 9000 line of managed switches offers modular and fixed units and supports all deployment scenarios including access, aggregation, and core switching. The Cisco Catalyst 9000 line offers devices with the appropriate value proposition to connect people and things in environments ranging from small businesses and branches to global enterprises. Catalyst 9000 Series products can be configured to implement any combination of onsite deployments, private and public clouds, and hybrid networks. Modern management utilities and cutting-edge security solutions reduce expenses by saving time and safeguarding critical IT assets. Cisco's 9000X line of switches offer converged switching and routing, introducing the first mix of 400G QSFP-DD ports plus full mGig and PoE ports.

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Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Are Designed for a Hybrid World

Cisco Catalyst 9200 Switches ExpertsWith twice the stacking bandwidth at about half the cost of the legacy Catalyst 2960-X and 2960-XR switches they are designed to replace, Cisco's Catalyst 9200 Series switches are a natural infrastructure update for small branch offices and midsize campus deployments. The Catalyst 9200 portfolio includes models that offer 24 or 48 ports with full PoE+; 80-160 Gbps stacking bandwidth; and Layer 3 capabilities such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing, EIGP distance routing protocol, IS-IS, and RIP. Cisco Catalyst 9200 switches are powered by the Cisco IOS XE operating system.

The Catalyst 9200 offers 160-Gbps backplane stacking bandwidth, features onsite-replaceable redundant power supplies and fans, and accepts swappable modules with 4x1G, 4x1/10G, 2x25G, or 2x40G uplink. Cisco's Catalyst 9200 Enhanced VN model allows as many as 32 Virtual Networks and delivers 160-Gbps backplane stacking throughput. The Catalyst 9200L delivers 80-Gbps stacking bandwidth. Both the Catalyst 9200L multigigabit and the Catalyst 9200 multigigabit support wireless bandwidth optimization with 8 or 12 mGig ports as fast as 10G.

Cisco Catalyst 9300 Switches ConsultantsCisco's Catalyst 9300 Series switches are fixed, stackable appliances for ultra-high-density enterprise access switching. Key features provided with various models in the Catalyst 9300 product line include 1T stacking performance, stackable SFP fiber, up to 448 mGig ports and 288 ports of 90W UPOE+ with an 8-unit configuration, end-to-end IPsec tunnel with AES-256 with MACsec 256-bit encryption and speeds up to 100G, HA fans and power, plus data stack and StackPower cables common throughout the complete Catalyst 9300 family.

Based on the Cisco IOS XE operating system, devices in the Catalyst 9300 family offer automated device provisioning, API-based configuration, high-granularity visibility for near realtime monitoring, and transparent software patching. Security capabilities include Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA) as well as AES-256 MACsec and IPSec encryption, plus Trust Anchor Technologies with Image signing. Cloud security is enhanced because Catalyst 9300 switches have the ability to host Cisco's Umbrella agent directly. This allows businesses to implement their DNS policies at user or group level to block BYOD or IoT users from accessing dangerous websites.

The value-priced Cisco Catalyst 9300L switch features as much as 320G backplane stacking performance and supports 12 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G ports and 36 10M/100M/1G ports. The 9300L utilizes fixed rather than modular uplink hardware for 4 1G, 4 10G, or 2 40G ports. The Cisco Catalyst 9300 switch offers 480G of backplane stacking capacity and supports 48 100M/1G/2.5G/5Gbps Ethernet ports, 24 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10Gbps Ethernet ports, or 48 1G SFP ports. Modular uplink speeds supported are 1G, 10G, 25G, or 40G. The top-of-the-line Cisco Catalyst 9300X switch provides 1T stacking capacity and supports 48 10G Ethernet ports. The 9300X accepts modular uplinks with dual-rate 100G/40G, multirate 25G/10G/1G, or multigigabit. Cisco 90W UPOE+ supports dense IoT applications. Hardware is available to provide 100G IPsec.

Catalyst 9400 Switches ExpertsCisco's Catalyst 9400 Series devices are modular switches based on the Cisco IOS XE operating system and intended for medium-size and enterprise campus access networks. Offering double the throughput and more than quadruple the chassis bandwidth as the Catalyst 6500 line it is built to replace, the Catalyst 9400 portfolio ushers switch technology into the current age of connectivity driven by cybersecurity, mobility, Internet of Things, and cloud.

Catalyst 9400 appliances are offered with 4-slot, 7-slot, and 10-slot chassis. Two of the slots on the chassis are reserved for high-availability supervisor cards, making 2, 5, or 8 slots available for line cards. Maximum bandwidth scalability per line-card slot is 480G. Switching capacity can achieve 1.44 Tbps and forwarding rate on Supervisor Module can reach 9 Tbps for the 10-slot chassis. All Catalyst 9400 appliances can provide 90W UPOE+ on every access port, protected segmentation with Software-Defined Access and N+N/N+1 power redundancy for high availability. Cisco's Catalyst 9400 4-slot switch supports 96 10/100/1000 ports, 5G/10G mGig ports, or 10G SFP+ ports. The Catalyst 9400 7-slot supports 240 ports, and the Catalyst 9400 10-slot supports 384 ports. All Catalyst 9400 appliances can provide 2 non-blocking 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP uplinks and 8 non-blocking 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ uplinks.

Cisco Catalyst 9500 Switches ExpertsThe Catalyst 9500 product line consists of fixed core and edge services switches intended for the enterprise campus. Catalyst 9500 switches are powered by the Cisco IOS XE operating system and the series includes the first infrastructure technology to provide switching speeds above 25 Terabits per second.

Catalyst 9500 models deliver up to 6.4 Tbps switching capacity with forwarding throughput up to 2 Bpps. Catalyst 9500 switches can provide as many as 32 nonblocking 100 Gigabit QSFP28 optical ports, 32 nonblocking 40 Gigabit QSFP+ ports, 48 nonblocking 25G SFP28 ports, or 48 nonblocking 10G ports. You can deploy Multichassis EtherChannel across Cisco StackWise-Virtual members to achieve high resiliency.

Catalyst 9500X appliances support as high as 25.6 Terabits per second switching performance with up to 2 Billion Packet per Second forwarding speed. Catalyst 9500X models support up to 28 nonblocking 40/100 Gigabit QSFP28 ports or 8 nonblocking 40/100/200/400 Gigabit QSFP-DD ports. The 9500X line also includes hardware support for line-rate 256-bit 802.1AE Media Access Control Security (MACsec) and WAN-MACsec1 data encryption.

Cisco Catalyst 9600 Switches ExpertsCisco's Catalyst 9600 Series switches are modular core and distribution switches intended for the enterprise campus. The 6-slot 9600 Series chassis with a Catalyst 9600X Series Supervisor has switching performance as high as 25.6 Tbps and can contain as many as 256 nonblocking 10/25/50 G Ethernet ports, 96 nonblocking 40/100G G ports, or 8 nonblocking 200/400 GE QSFP-Double Density ports. The Catalyst 9600 also provides dual-rate 40G/100G and 10G/25G optics. Two chassis slots are reserved for high-availability supervisors. You can combine a selection of line cards for core and aggregation deployment scenarios. The Catalyst 9600 chassis is equipped with a passive backplane, making it possible to change out fan tray, power supplies, and line cards without disrupting operation.

End-of-Life Catalyst Products Supported by Progent's Consultants
Progent's Cisco certified consultants have extensive experience providing online and onsite consulting and troubleshooting services for legacy Catalyst switches which have reached End of Life (EOL). These outdated Catalyst switches typically cost more to manage and maintain than contemporary products, provide lower performance and functionality, and in some situations may expose businesses to regulatory compliance and even liability issues. Progent are available to assist your business to maintain and repair these older switches and can in addition help you to design and carry out non-disruptive upgrades to current models from the Catalyst family or to devices from the Cisco Nexus line of switches which take advantage of Catalyst design experience.

Cisco Catalyst Express 500 Series
Catalyst Express 500 and 520 Series Switches Professional ServicesCisco's Catalyst Express 500 line of Layer 2 switches are designed for businesses with as many as 250 employees and deliver the reliability, protection, expandability, and features small and mid-sized businesses require at an affordable price. Power over Ethernet capability makes it easy to install network appliances like VoIP phones and closed-circuit cameras.

Versions of the Catalyst Express 500 managed switches offer up to 24 10/100/1000BT ports as well as optional redundant power supplies with auto fail-over for extra reliability. Interoperation with Cisco wireless access points allows businesses to build a wireless LAN environment rapidly and easily. The Cisco Catalyst Express 500 and 520 family provides solid security against malicious attacks thanks to the Cisco Self-Defending Network strategy and Cisco Clean Access solutions. Catalyst 2940 Switch
Catalyst 2900 Series Switches HelpCatalyst 2900 Series fixed-configuration, managed 10/100 Ethernet switches provide basic workgroup connectivity for small to midsize businesses (SMBs). These wire-speed desktop switches offer Cisco IOS Software functions for simple data, video, and voice support at the network edge. The Cisco Catalyst 2940 family of fixed-configuration switches are compact, entry-level switches featuring 8 Fast Ethernet connections and a single integrated Fast or Gbit uplink. They can be deployed away from the wiring closet in cramped areas like on a user's desk or in a classroom.

Catalyst 2960-S Switch
The Catalyst 2960-S Series are fixed-configuration switches intended for small businesses and branch offices. Available models offer either 24 or 48 1Gb Ethernet ports, four 1-Gigabit or two 10-Gigabit uplink connections, and deliver switching capacity of 176 Gbps. Cisco's FlexStack technology permits as many as four 2960-S chassis to be combined in a stack to act like a single switching unit that provides 40 Gbps of stacking performance and that reduces management costs because of single-switch configuration. Cisco's IPv6 FHS technology protects against address interception and malicious threats.

Cisco Catalyst 3560 Switches
Catalyst 3560 Series Switches SupportThe Catalyst 3560 Series is a selection of fixed-configuration switches that features IEEE 802.3af and Cisco Power over Ethernet functionality in Fast Ethernet and 10/100/1000 Ethernet configurations. The Catalyst 3560 is a proven access-layer switch for small enterprise network connectivity or branch-office environments, combining both Gigabit and PoE configurations for high productivity while facilitating the deployment of key technology including Voice over IP, Wi-Fi, video monitoring, and remote video kiosks. IT managers can activate network-wide smart features including QoS, rate limiting, access control lists, multicast administration, and broadband IP routing with the ease of conventional network switching.

The Catalyst 3560 family switch has a powerful set of capabilities that permit network expandability and enhanced availability through IP routing as well as a full suite of Spanning Tree Protocol enhancements aimed to increase availability in a Layer 2 network. Enhancements to the conventional STP Protocol, including Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVST+), Uplink Fast, and Port Fast, combined with innovations such as Flex Links Layer 2 interfaces, improve network uptime. PVST+ allows for Layer 2 load sharing on redundant links to efficiently use the additional bandwidth associated with a redundant architecture.

Efficient routing protocols including Open Shortest Path First (OPSF), EIGRP, BGP, static routing, and Policy Based Routing improve system scale; Protocol Independent Multicast improves utilization of network resources; and Virtual Route Forwarding Lite (VRFLite) protects data.

Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series Switches
Catalyst 3750 Family Switches Professional ServicesFor mid-size organizations and enterprise branches, Cisco's Catalyst 3750 switch eases deployment of unified technologies and adapts to changing business environments by offering configuration versatility, ability to manage converged network traffic, and management-free set up of smart network functions. In addition, the Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series switch is engineered for high-volume 1000 Ethernet deployments and includes a wide selection of switches that address the connectivity, distribution, and backbone-interface demands of small or midsized networks.

The Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series includes either the IP Base or the IP Services image. The IP Base image features include industry-leading QoS, rate-management, access control lists (ACLs), and basic static and Routing Information Protocol (RIP) routing support. The IP Services image offers a broader selection of enterprise-level features, such as sophisticated hardware-based IP unicast and multicast routing.

Cisco StackWise technology is a stacking architecture designed for Gigabit Ethernet. StackWise is designed to respond to additions, deletions, and redeployments while maintaining dependable operation. StackWise technology unites up to 9 separate switches into a single functional unit, utilizing special stack-interconnect cables and stacking utilities. The individual switches can be any mix of the Catalyst 3750 Series and the Catalyst 3750-E switches. The stack behaves as an individual switching unit that is managed by a control switch, elected from among the stack of switches. The master switch intelligently creates and updates all the switching and optional routing tables. A running stack can accept new devices or delete existing members with no operational discontinuity.

Catalyst 2960 Swiches and 3560-CX Switches
Catalyst 2900 Family Switches ConsultingCisco's Catalyst 2960-CX is a fixed-configuration managed switch that is compact, fanless, power efficient, and allows a variety of mounting alternatives. The switch has eight 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports and two Gigabit Ethernet uplinks and has an option for PoE+ power. Cisco's Catalyst 3560-CX appliance is a fixed-configuration managed switch packaged in a sleek, quiet and low-power unit that can be placed almost anywhere convenient. Versions are offered with 8 or 12 1-GE ports or with 6 1-GE ports and 2 multigigabit ports. Two or four uplink ports are available, and Power over Ethernet is also available.

Cisco Catalyst 2900-L Switches Integration and TroubleshootingCisco's Catalyst 2960-L line consists of entry-level fixed-port managed switches designed for small offices, retail venues, and other environments where space is at a premium. Catalyst 2900-L compact appliances include eight to 48 GE ports and 2 or 4 Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) uplink ports. Power over Ethernet support saves space and fan-free design for most models eliminates noise. RJ-45 connectors accommodate 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-T SFP-based ports.

Cisco Catalyst 2960-X and 2960-XR switches improve on the 2690-S line of switches by delivering switching capacity of up to 216 Gbps and supporting Cisco's FlexStack-Plus Stacking by means of a live-swappable plug-in that allows 8 switches in a FlexStack Plus stack capable of 80 Gbps of stacking throughput. Cisco Catalyst 2900 Series switches also work with NetFlow-Lite for flow-based traffic monitoring. The Catalyst 2960-XR switch is capable of Layer 3 dynamic routing, offering the convenience of having a single switch for Layer 2 and Layer 3 routing.

Cisco Catalyst 3650 and 3850 Switches
Catalyst 3650 Switch and Catalyst 3850 Series Switches ConsultantsCisco Catalyst 3650 and Catalyst 3850 series switches are fixed, stackable access devices powered by Cisco's IOS XE control software and featuring full wireless network controller functionality that allows you to control wired and wireless networks on a one device powered by a single OS. Cisco has models with 24 or 48 built-in 1Gb Ethernet ports with PoE plus, four 1GE or four 10-GB Ethernet uplinks, and capacity for up to nine Catalyst switches per FlexStack stack. All models offer expandable QoS, fast failover for maximum uptime, software support for IPv4/IPv6 routing, multicast routing, and enhanced security features.

Because wireless data traffic is present at the Catalyst 3000 family switch, it is possible to identify and assign priorities to wireless data with Cisco's FNF solution and sophisticated Quality of Service capabilities for a better wireless user experience and faster problem mediation. Multigigabit Ethernet switching supports the high-throughput called for by the new 802.11ac Wave 2 wireless standard using currently in-place cabling infrastructure. (To find out about Progent's consulting services for Cisco's 802.11ac Aironet Wi-Fi technology, and Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, refer to Planning and Deployment Support for Cisco Wireless Access Points and Controllers.)

The Catalyst 3650 switch offers stacking bandwidth of 160 Gbps and can control as many as 25 Wi-Fi APs and 1000 Wi-Fi users per switch or stack. The Catalyst 3850 Series switch offers stacking bandwidth of 480 Gbps and supports as many as 50 wireless access points and 2000 wireless clients per switch or stack. Catalyst 3850 SFP Fiber Switches incorporate 12 or 24 1G fiber data ports at line rate on every port, providing far reaching connectivity, enhanced protection, and an identical wired/wireless experience.

Cisco Catalyst 4500-E and Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 4500-E Series and and Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series switches are intended for access and distribution deployments where space for networking hardware is at a premium. Powered by Cisco's IOS XE operating system, the Catalyst 4500-E and 4500-X families facilitate virtualization thanks to Cisco's EVN and Virtual Switching System technologies. Network virtualization makes it possible to segment a physical network into multiple virtual networks (VNs) whose data planes and control planes are logically distinct. This makes possible the economy, security and compliance, recoverability, and simplified management needed for Cloud environments or other scenarios where a single resource pool must be used by software and services that need to operate in total privacy from each other. EVN simplifies the task of creating VNs and can be expanded to 32 VNs per switch. EVN incorporates features of Multi-VRF and includes additional features such as VNET Tags and a simple way for duplicating replicating routes between VNs. VSS technology makes it possible to set up Catalyst 4500-E and Catalyst 4500-X Series switches to create zero-downtime virtual networks with advanced load balancing.

Catalyst 4500-E Series Switches
Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Series Switches Planning and Support ServicesThe Supervisor Engine for for the Catalyst 4500-E switch includes a built-in wireless network controller that works with Cisco's Unified Access solution for wired/wireless convergence. this is the initial Catalyst supervisor engine to enable wired as well as wireless services on one switch based on Cisco's IOS XE software. Technologies included are Cisco's FNF technology for application visibility across both wired and wireless networks, TrustSec/SGT2 wired/wireless security, identical Quality of Service for wired and Wi-Fi clients, plus the expansion of NSF/SSO to cover Wi-Fi data traffic for enterprise-quality high availability.

Available in chassis that have from three to 10 plug-in slots, Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Series switches can handle up to 384 1-Gigabit Ethernet access ports, up to 192 1GE non-blocking fiber connections, 96 10-Gigabit Ethernet fiber ports, and eight 10-Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports. The Catalyst 4500-E Supervisor Engine 8-E delivers up to 928 Gbps of wired access for each system and as much as 20 Gbps of wireless termination capacity. 50 wireless access points and 2000 Wi-Fi clients can be handled per switch, and 250 wireless access points and 4000 wireless users can be supported in a multi-switch installation without requiring a standalone wireless controller.

Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches
Catalyst 4500-X Family Switches Planning and Support ServicesCisco's Catalyst 4500-X Series switches are fixed 10-Gigabit Ethernet aggregation switches that deliver 800 Gbps of core switching capacity per device. The Catalyst 4500-X switch can have as many as 32 10-Gigabit Ethernet connections on the baseboard and eight more 10GE ports on the expansion module for a total of 40 non-blocking 10GE ports. Eight 10GE uplink ports are also available via a separate module. In addition to offering non-stop performance and simple manageability, Cisco's virtual switching system technology on Catalyst 4500-X switches offers increased system throughput of as much as 1.6 Tbps by enabling all available bandwidth across redundant Catalyst 4500-X Series switches. Other features include Cisco's Flexible NetFlow solution for capacity planning, Cisco TrustSec security, and wire-rate IPv6 forwarding.

Catalyst 6500 Series and Catalyst 6800 Series Switches
Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series switches are enterprise campus core switches that share the field-proven DNA of the Catalyst 6500 family of switches, which were introduced more than a decade ago and which have been steadily improved ever since. Catalyst 6500 and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series switches provide identical features and operation, and the modular Catalyst 6807-XL switch supports the Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 2T and its extensive family of line cards and modules. This mutual compatibility and commitment to continual enhancement preserves your IT investment and enables you to update your network with minimal downtime or IT staff training.

Common attributes of Catalyst 6500 and Cisco Catalyst 6800 modular switches that have Cisco's Supervisor Engine 2T include the Cisco Identity Services Engine for simple, centralized administration to ensure consistent policy across a distributed environment, VSS technology for maximum uptime via multi-level redundancy, and Cisco's LISP protocol to facilitate client roaming and device mobility and to simplify virtualization and transition to IPv6. Additional virtual networking features to partition specific user groups and serve the unique security and Quality of Service policy needs of every group include L2/L3 VPN, full MPLS, EVN, VRF-aware applications for NAT NetFlow, IPv6 over IPv4 GRE Tunnels, and Layer 2 geographic extensions with virtual private LAN services (VPLS). For converged wired and wireless networking, the Wireless Services Module 2 controller Cisco Catalyst 6500 and Catalyst 6800 modular switches supports up to 1000 wireless access points and 15,000 wireless users.

Catalyst 6500-E Switches
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Family Switches ConsultantsThe Catalyst 6500-E line of modular switches are designed for distribution and campus core networks that require maximum availability and high concentrations of 10/100/1000 Ethernet, 1 GE fiber, or 10 and 40 GE ports. Models include three to 13 expansion slots and accept a wide selection of interface modules. Integrated service modules enable wireless, network analysis, and security and compliance. Just E-Series models of Cisco's broad family of Catalyst 6500 switches are compatible with the Supervisor Engine 2T.

The Catalyst 6503-E switch has a 4 rack unit (4RU) form factor, includes 3 expansion slots, and offers 180 Gbps of switching bandwidth per slot. The Cisco Catalyst 6503-E can support 97 1-Gigabit Ethernet connections, up to 99 1GE fiber connections, 34 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports, and up to 8 40GE ports.

The high-end Catalyst 6513-E switch has a 19RU, 13-slot chassis and can deliver as much as 180 Gbps of throughput per slot, providing a system capacity as high as 4 Tbps. A VSS configured system can deliver up to 8 Tbps of switching bandwidth. The Cisco Catalyst 6513-E switch supports a maximum of 529 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports, up to 534 1GE fiber connections, 180 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports, and up to 44 40GE access ports.

Catalyst 6800 Switches
Catalyst 6800 Family Switches Consulting and TroubleshootingCatalyst 6800 Series switches are campus backbone platforms intended to deliver optimal 10/40/100 GE support. The Catalyst 6880-X switch is a fixed, compact platform for Ethernet aggregation intended for small or medium-size enterprise campus backbones. The Catalyst 6880-X switch supports up to 2 Tbps switching throughput and has four slots for port cards. The maximum port concentration on one chassis is 80 10/100/1000 Ethernet connections or 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports or up to 20 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports. With VSS, these switches can provide 4 Tbps performance and support up to 158 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports or 10-Gigabit Ethernet access ports or up to 20 40GE ports.

The modular Cisco Catalyst 6807-XL switch comes in a 10 RU form factor chassis that has 7 expansion slots and accepts existing Supervisor Engine 2T line cards and modules. (Two slots are reserved for the Supervisor Engine and five are for expansion modules.) The Catalyst 6807-XL switch can deliver up to 880 Gbps of switching throughput per slot and 11.4 Tbps of full-duplex switching throughput while handling up to 240 1 Gigabit Ethernet access ports or Gigabit Ethernet fiber ports, 80 10GE connections or 20 40GE connections. A two-chassis 6807-XL system configured with VSS is capable of supporting 22.8 Tbps of switching performance, 480 10/100/1000 Ethernet access ports or Gigabit Ethernet fiber connections, up to 160 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports or 40 40GE access ports.

How Progent Can Assist Your Business with Catalyst Switches
Progent offers the online or onsite services of Cisco CCIE-certified network consultants who have extensive experience providing Catalyst switch solutions for small and midsize businesses, branches, campuses, data centers, Cloud environments, and service providers. Progent's practice areas include Cisco's Catalyst and Nexus families of smart switches and Cisco's IOS, IOS-XR and NX-OS control software. Support services available from Progent for Catalyst switches include proof-of-concept testing, system analysis, topology design, migrations and project management, virtualization, wired and wireless unification, management automation, capacity planning, troubleshooting, business continuity planning, and network security and compliance testing and verification.

Progent offers broad expertise with industry standards and with proprietary Cisco technologies related to switching and routing including Border Gateway Protocol, MPLS traffic engineering, PIM, VPNs, STP, virtual LANs, Cisco FabricPath, VPC, OTV, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Virtual Switching System (VSS), and Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP). Progent's network experts also have familiarity with key technologies such as TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6, EIGRP, Routing Information Protocol, and Internet Group Management Protocol. Progent's CISSP-ISSAP certified data security and compliance consultants can assist you to develop a comprehensive security and compliance plan and deploy Cisco Catalyst switches so that they offer optimal support for your network security posture.

If you require the highest available density or extremely low latency Cisco switches for a world-class data center, Progent can help you to evaluate, design, and carry out a transition to Cisco's Nexus switches. To learn about Progent's consulting and support services for Cisco's Nexus switches, see Cisco Nexus Switch consulting and support services. Progent can also assist you to integrate Catalyst data center switches with Cisco Meraki distribution switches. (See Cisco Meraki switch integration consultants.)

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