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The Catalyst family of modular and fixed managed switches provides performance and control at the access, aggregation, and core areas of converged IP voice, video, and high bandwidth data networks for organizations that range in size from small businesses and branches to multi-campus enterprises and service providers. Progent's Cisco-certified consultants offer online and onsite expertise with Catalyst switches to assist you to design an efficient network architecture that addresses your specific business needs, set up pilot testing, deploy Catalyst switches, implement and validate a sensible security plan, automate system management and performance tracking, deliver repair and maintenance services, optimize switch performance, and configure Catalyst's high-availability (HA) technology to achieve near-zero downtime.

Progent can assist you to maintain and troubleshoot your legacy Catalyst switches or migrate with minimal disruption to current versions of Catalyst switches adhering to leading practices to ensure that you get the maximum business value from your investment in your network.

The need for intelligent, high-speed switching is the result 0f a confluence of fairly recent networking trends whose overall effect is a cyber avalanche of data:

• Cloud and IoT computing and a consequent need for intensive virtualization
• The pervasiveness of personal endpoints
• Bandwidth-intensive rich media applications
• Social media for business
• The rise of Big Data in data analytics
• Increasingly advanced threats such as ransomware

Cisco's current portfolio of Catalyst switches are best suited for the distribution/core levels of enterprise campus environments where mobile and stationary employees must be accommodated by providing dependable performance, strict user access management, tight segregation, application awareness, and wired and wireless convergence. Catalyst series switches are designed to meet the demand for speed and intelligence with features that include high-port-count 10G/40G/100G services, switching performance more than 25 Tbps for each appliance, an extensive collection of technologies including Easy Virtual Network (EVN) to facilitate the deployment of VLANs, Virtual Switching System (VSS) technology for stateful interchassis failover with instant virtual switch restoration and 99.999% uptime, IPv4 and IPv6 support, Application Visibility and Control (AVC) to optimize network resource usage, and sophisticated Quality of Service tools for critical traffic control.

Cisco Catalyst switches allow businesses of any size to build intelligent switching services into their network architecture, deploying an environment that can meet current needs, expand to accommodate future capacity demands, guard vital data, and differentiate and control processes to optimize network operations.

Catalyst 1000 Series Fixed Ethernet Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 1000 Layer 2 network access switches are compact, fixed-configuration switches targeted for small businesses and branch offices with up to 250 users and with minimal in-house IT support. Cisco's Catalyst 1000 line includes fanless models for noiseless operation within an office environment. Mounting options include desktop, wall or shelf mount, standard rack mount, and DIN. Designed as an easy upgrade for Cisco Catalyst 2960-L or 2960-Plus Series deployments, the Catalyst 1000 line includes versions with 8 to 48G Ethernet ports or 24 to 48 Fast Ethernet 10/100M Mbps ports.

Catalyst Series 1000 set up and management are simple via a web UI or CLI, cybersecurity is enterprise-grade, and PoE+ ports with an automatically distributed budget of 740W supports a wide range of Internet of Things implementations. As many as eight Catalyst 1000 Gigabit Ethernet Series switches can be controlled at once with single IP. All Catalyst 1000 appliances are nonblocking line-rate switches, and all are powered by Cisco's familiar IOS Software. Quality-of-Service (QoS) features include egress queues on every port plus priority packet queuing to deliver wire-speed throughput for time-critical traffic. Catalyst 1000 switches also feature Shaped Round Robin (SRR) scheduling and WTD congestion avoidance.

Catalyst 9000 Fixed and Modular Managed Switches
The Cisco Catalyst 9000 series of managed switches includes modular and fixed units and can support all deployment scenarios including access, distribution, and core switching. The Cisco Catalyst 9000 series offers devices with the right value proposition to connect people and things in venues ranging from small businesses and branch offices to global enterprises. Catalyst 9000 Series switches can be configured to support any combination of onsite facilities, private and public clouds, and hybrid network models. Modern network management utilities and advanced cybersecurity solutions reduce expenses by cutting operational overhead and protecting vital IT assets. Cisco's 9000X family of switches provide converged switching/routing, delivering the first combination of 400G optical transceivers along with full multigigabit Ethernet and PoE ports.

With double the stacking bandwidth at around half the price of the legacy Catalyst 2960-X and 2960-XR switches they are designed to replace, Catalyst 9200 Series switches are a natural network upgrade for small branches and midsize campus deployments. The 9200 family includes switches that support 24 or 48 ports with full PoE+; 80-160 Gbps backplane stacking bandwidth; and Layer 3 features such as OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS link-state protocol, and RIP. Catalyst 9200 switches run the Cisco IOS XE operating system.

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

Cisco's Catalyst 9300 Series switches are fixed, stackable devices for high-density enterprise access switching. Advanced features available with various models in the Catalyst 9300 portfolio include 1T backplane stacking capacity, stackable high-speed fiber, up to 448 multigigabit Ethernet ports including 288 ports of 90W UPOE+ with an 8-unit stack, end-to-end IPsec tunnel with AES-256 Encryption and speeds as high as 100G, high-availability redundant fans and power, plus data stack cables common across the complete Catalyst 9300 family.

Powered by the Cisco IOS XE operating system, appliances in the Catalyst 9300 family offer automated device provisioning, API-based configuration, granular visibility for close to realtime monitoring, and transparent software updates and patching. Advanced security capabilities include Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA) as well as AES-256 MACsec and IPSec encryption, plus Trust Anchor Technologies with Secure Boot. Cloud security is enhanced because Catalyst 9300 Series switches are able to host the Cisco Umbrella agent directly. This makes it possible for businesses to design their DNS filtering policies at a granular user or group level to prevent BYOD or IoT clients from accessing malicious websites.

The value-priced Cisco Catalyst 9300L switch delivers as much as 320G stacking capacity and offers 12 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G ports and 36 10M/100M/1G ports. The 9300L uses fixed rather than modular uplink hardware for 4 1G, 4 10G, or 2 40G uplink ports. The Cisco Catalyst 9300 appliance features 480G of backplane stacking performance 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 performance available are 1G, 10G, 25G, or 40G. The high-end Cisco Catalyst 9300X switch delivers up to 1Tbps backplane stacking bandwidth and supports 48 10G Ethernet ports. The 9300X supports modular uplinks with dual-rate 100G/40G, multirate 25G/10G/1G, or mGig. Cisco 90W Universal Power Over Ethernet+ (UPOE+) supports dense IoT environments such as smart buildings. Hardware is available to support 100G IPsec.

Cisco's Catalyst 9400 Series devices are modular switches based on Cisco IOS XE and intended for medium-size and enterprise campus access networks. Offering double the throughput and over quadruple the chassis bandwidth as the legacy Catalyst 6500 line it is built to replace, Cisco's Catalyst 9400 portfolio ushers switch technology into the current era of connectivity impelled by security, mobility, IoT, and cloud.

Catalyst 9400 appliances are available with 4-slot, 7-slot, and 10-slot chassis. Two slots on the chassis are dedicated to redundant supervisor cards, making 2, 5, or 8 slots available for line cards. Maximum capacity per line-card slot is 480 Gbps. Switching capacity can achieve 1.44 Terabits per second and forwarding rate on Supervisor Module is as high as 9 Tbps with the 10-slot chassis. All Catalyst 9400 chassis can provide 90W UPOE+ on every port, secure network segmentation with SD-Access and N+N/N+1 power redundancy for high resilience. The Catalyst 9400 4-slot switch supports 96 10/100/1000 ports, 5G/10G multigigabit 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 support 2 non-blocking 40 Gigabit Ethernet Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable uplinks and 8 non-blocking 10G Ethernet SFP+ uplinks.

The Catalyst 9500 product line consists of fixed core and edge services switches designed for the large campus. Catalyst 9500 models are powered by the Cisco IOS XE operating system and the series incorporates the first infrastructure technology to provide switching speeds higher than 25 Terabits per second.

Cisco's Catalyst 9500 models provide up to 6.4 Terabits per second switching performance with forwarding throughput as high as 2 Billion Packet per Second. Catalyst 9500 appliances can provide up to 32 nonblocking 100 GB QSFP28 optical ports, 32 nonblocking 40 Gigabit QSFP+ ports, 48 nonblocking 25G SFP28 ports, or 48 nonblocking 10 Gigabit SFP+ ports. You can deploy Multichassis EtherChannel (MEC) across StackWise-Virtual members to achieve high availability.

Catalyst 9500X products support up to 25.6 Tbps switching capacity with up to 2 Billion Packet per Second forwarding speed. Catalyst 9500X models support up to 28 nonblocking 40/100 GB QSFP28 ports or 8 nonblocking 40/100/200/400 Gigabit QSFP-DD ports. The 9500X line also includes chip-level capability for line-rate 256-bit 802.1AE Media Access Control Security (MACsec) and WAN-MACsec1 data encryption.

Cisco's Catalyst 9600 Series switches are modular core and distribution switches intended for the enterprise campus. The 6-slot chassis using a Catalyst 9600X Series Supervisor has switching capacity as high as 25.6 Tbps and can support up to 256 nonblocking 10/25/50 Gigabit Ethernet ports, 96 nonblocking 40/100G Gigabit ports, or 8 nonblocking 200/400 G QSFP-DD ports. The Catalyst 9600 switch also supports dual-rate 40G/100G and 10G/25G optics. Two chassis slots are dedicated for high-availability supervisors. You can mix and match a selection of line cards for core and aggregation environments. The Catalyst 9600 chassis uses a passive backplane, making it possible to change out fan tray, power supplies, and line cards without disrupting operation.

End-of-Life Catalyst Series Switches Still Supported by Progent's Consultants
Progent's Cisco certified network consultants have broad experience providing remote and onsite support expertise for legacy Catalyst Series switches for which Cisco has announced End of Life. These legacy switches often are more expensive to operate and support than contemporary switches, deliver less capacity and functionality, and in some cases may expose organizations to regulatory compliance and even liability risks. Progent's consultants are available to help you to manage and troubleshoot these older switches and can also help you to design and implement non-disruptive migrations to current models within the Catalyst line or to devices from the Cisco Nexus portfolio of network switches which build upon Catalyst design experience.

Catalyst Express 500 Line of Switches
Cisco's Catalyst Express 500 line of fixed-configuration switches are intended for companies with as many as 250 employees and deliver the reliability, security, expandability, and feature set small and mid-sized businesses need at an affordable cost. PoE support makes it simple to add network devices such as wireless access points and IP TV cameras.

Models of the Cisco Catalyst Express 500 switches support from 8 to 24 10/100/1000BASE-T ports plus optional redundant power supplies with automatic fail-over for extra reliability. Integration with Cisco access points allows businesses to set up a local wireless environment rapidly and easily. The Catalyst Express 500 and 520 platform offers solid protection against malicious attacks With Cisco's Self-Defending Network technology and Cisco Clean Access agents. Catalyst 2940 Switch
Catalyst 2900 Series non-modular, managed 10/100 Ethernet switches provide fundamental workgroup networking for small to medium-sized companies. These wire-rate desktop appliances offer Cisco IOS Software functions for simple data, video, and voice support at the network edge. The Cisco Catalyst 2940 family of switches are small, entry-level devices featuring eight Ethernet connections plus one built-in Fast Ethernet or Gbit Ethernet uplink. The enclosures can be deployed away from the wiring closet in space-constrained office spaces like on a worker's desk or in a classroom.

Catalyst 2960-S Series Switch
The Cisco Catalyst 2960-S Series are fixed-configuration switches intended for small businesses and branches. Current models have 24 or 48 1Gb Ethernet ports, four 1-Gigabit or two 10-Gigabit uplinks, and deliver throughput as high as 176 Gbps. Cisco's FlexStack technology permits up to four Catalyst 2960-S chassis to be combined in a stack to act as one switching unit that offers 40 Gbps of stacking performance and that reduces administrative costs with one-switch setup. IPv6 First Hop Security technology protects against IPv6 address theft and malicious attacks.

Catalyst 3560 Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 3560 Series is a line of fixed-configuration switches that features IEEE 802.3af and Power over Ethernet (PoE) capability in 10/100 and 10/100/1000 Ethernet configurations. The Catalyst 3560 Series switch is a proven access-layer switch for small enterprise network access or branch-office environments, combining both Gigabit and PoE configurations for high productivity while streamlining the installation of key applications including VoIP, wireless connectivity, video surveillance, and remote video kiosks. IT managers can deploy comprehensive intelligent features such as QoS, rate management, ACLs, multicast management, and high-performance IP routing with the simplicity of conventional LAN switching.

The Catalyst 3560 Series switch has a robust set of capabilities that permit network scalability and enhanced resilience via IP routing as well as a complete complement of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) improvements aimed to increase availability in an access Layer network. Enhancements to the standard Spanning Tree Protocol, including PVST+, and Uplink Fast, combined with innovations such as Flex Links interfaces, contribute to network uptime. PVST+ allows for Layer 2 load balancing on backup links to efficiently use the additional capacity associated with a redundant design.

Important routing protocols such as OPSF, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), BGP, static routing, and Policy Based Routing increase network scale; Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) increases resource utilization; and Virtual Route Forwarding Lite secures network traffic.

Catalyst 3750 Family Switches
For midsized businesses and enterprise branch offices, the Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series eases deployment of converged applications and accommodates changing business needs by providing configuration flexibility, ability to manage unified network patterns, and management-free configuration of smart system services. Also, Cisco's Catalyst 3750 Series is engineered for high-volume Gigabit Ethernet environments and incorporates a wide selection of switches that meet the connectivity, aggregation, and backbone-interface requirements of small or mid-size deployments.

The Cisco Catalyst 3750 switch has the IP Base image or the Services image. The IP Base image capabilities include industry-leading QoS, rate-management, ACLs, and basic static and RIP routing capability. The IP Services image offers a broader set of enterprise-class features, including advanced hardware-based IP unicast/multicast routing.

Cisco StackWise technology is a stacking architecture designed for Gigabit Ethernet. StackWise is designed to react to additions, deletions, and relocations while maintaining consistent operation. StackWise combines as many as 9 individual switches into one logical unit, utilizing special stack-interface cables and software. Each of the switches can be any combination of the Catalyst 3750 Series and the Cisco Catalyst 3750-E Series. The stack operates as an individual switching device that is managed by a master switch, selected from one of the member switches. The control switch intelligently builds and updates all the switching and optional routing databases. A working stack can accept new members or remove existing members without service discontinuity.

Catalyst 2960 Series Switches and 3560-CX Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 2960-CX is a fixed-port switch that is low-profile, fanless, power efficient, and allows flexible mounting options. The switch incorporates eight 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports and two 1-GE uplinks and optionally provides PoE+ power. Cisco's Catalyst 3560-CX is a fixed-port managed switch housed in a sleek, noiseless and energy-efficient enclosure that can be placed almost anywhere outside a wiring closet. Versions are offered with eight or 12 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports or with six 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports and two multigigabit Ethernet ports. Two or four uplinks are available, and Power over Ethernet is also available.

Cisco's Catalyst 2960-L line consists of entry-level fixed-configuration switches intended for branch offices, retail venues, and other environments where space is at a premium. These low-profile switches have eight to 48 GE ports and either two or four Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) uplink ports. PoE support reduces clutter and fan-free design for 16- and 24-port versions eliminates noise. RJ-45 connectors accommodate 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-T SFP-based ports.

Cisco Catalyst 2960-X and Catalyst 2960-XR Series switches improve on the 2690-S family of switches by delivering switching throughput as high as 216 Gbps and providing Cisco's FlexStack-Plus stacking technology by means of a live-swappable plug-in that can combine 8 switches in a FlexStack Plus stack capable of 80 Gbps of stacking performance. Catalyst 2900 Series switches also work with NetFlow-Lite for flow-based traffic monitoring. The Catalyst 2960-XR Series switch features Layer 3 dynamic routing, offering the simplicity of having a single device for Layer 2 and Layer 3 routing.

Cisco Catalyst 3650 and Catalyst 3850 Switches
Cisco Catalyst 3650 and Catalyst 3850 switches are fixed, stackable access devices powered by Cisco's IOS XE operating system and featuring full wireless network controller capability that lets you control wired and wireless networks on a one platform managed by a single OS. Cisco offers versions with 24 or 48 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports with Power over Ethernet plus, four 1GE or four 10-GB Ethernet uplinks, and capacity for as many as nine Catalyst switches in a FlexStack stack. All versions provide expandable QoS, stateful switchover for high uptime, support in software for IPv4 and IPv6 routing, multicast routing, and enhanced security.

Since wireless data traffic is visible at the Catalyst 3000 family switch, it is possible to spot and assign priorities to wireless data with Cisco's Flexible NetFlow (FNF) solution along with sophisticated QoS features for a better user environment and quicker problem isolation. Multigigabit Ethernet switching can handle the high-throughput defined by the new 802.11ac Wave 2 Wi-Fi specification using currently in-place cabling solutions. (To find out about Progent's support for Cisco's 802.11ac Wi-Fi access points and wireless controllers, and Cisco's Meraki cloud-managed access points, refer to Configuration and Troubleshooting Consulting Services for Cisco Wireless Products.)

The Catalyst 3650 delivers stacking bandwidth as high as 160 Gbps and can control up to 25 Wi-Fi access points and 1000 wireless clients per switch. The Catalyst 3850 switch offers stacking performance as high as 480 Gbps and supports as many as 50 Wi-Fi APs and 2000 Wi-Fi clients on each switch or stack. Catalyst 3850 SFP Fiber Switches have 12 or 24 1G fiber connections at line rate, providing long distance connections, enhanced security, and a consistent wired/wireless experience.

Catalyst 4500-E Series and Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 4500-E Series and and Catalyst 4500-X Series switches are intended for campus access and distribution deployments where space for networking equipment is at a premium. Powered by Cisco's IOS XE operating system, both the 4500-E and Catalyst 4500-X product lines simplify virtualization by supporting Cisco's Easy Virtual Network (EVN) and Virtual Switching System solutions. Virtualization allows you to divide a hardware network into a number of virtual networks whose data planes and control planes are logically distinct. This makes possible the efficient utilization, protection, resilience, and simplified management needed for Cloud computing or other situations where a common resource pool is used by applications and services that need to operate in complete privacy from each other. Easy Virtual Network simplifies the process of creating virtual networks and scales to 32 VNs for each switch. Easy Virtual Network incorporates the capabilities of Multi-virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) and provides additional technologies such as VNET Tags and a simple technique for duplicating replicating routes between VNs. VSS makes it possible to configure Catalyst 4500-E and 4500-X Series switches to create zero-downtime virtual networks with advanced traffic load balancing.

Catalyst 4500-E Switches
The Supervisor Engine 8-E for the Catalyst 4500-E switch includes a built-in wireless controller that works with Cisco's Unified Access technology for wired and wireless convergence. The Supervisor Engine 8-E is the first Cisco Catalyst supervisor engine to allow wired as well as wireless services on one platform based on Cisco's IOS XE. Features include Cisco's FNF solution for traffic analytics across wired and Wi-Fi networks, TrustSec wired and wireless data security, predictable Quality of Service for wired and Wi-Fi clients, plus the expansion of Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover to cover wireless traffic for enterprise-quality availability.

Available in chassis that have from three to 10 plug-in slots, Cisco Catalyst 4500-E switches can handle up to 384 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, 193 1GE non-blocking fiber ports, 96 10GE fiber ports, and eight 10GE uplink ports. The Catalyst 4500-E Supervisor Engine 8-E provides as much as 928 Gbps of wired capacity for each system and as much as 20 Gbps of wireless termination capacity. 50 wireless APs and 2000 wireless users can be handled per switch, and up to 250 APs and 4000 wireless users can be managed in a two-switch installation without a separate wireless network controller.

Catalyst 4500-X Switches
Catalyst 4500-X Series switches are fixed-configuration 10-Gigabit Ethernet aggregation platforms that provide as much as 800 Gbps of backplane switching performance per device. The Catalyst 4500-X can have as many as 32 10GE connections on the baseboard and eight extra 10GE ports on the expansion module for a maximum of up to 40 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports. Eight 10GE uplinks are available with a separate module. In addition to offering zero-downtime operation and simple management, Cisco's VSS technology on Catalyst 4500-X Series switches provides higher system throughput of up to 1.6 Tbps by enabling all possible capacity across redundant Catalyst 4500-X switches. Additional advanced features include Flexible NetFlow solution for capacity planning, Cisco TrustSec protection, and fast, hardware-based IPv6 forwarding.

Cisco Catalyst 6500 and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches
Catalyst 6500 Series and Catalyst 6800 switches are campus core platforms that incorporate the field-proven technology of the Catalyst 6500 family of products, which first appeared more than a decade ago and have been continually enhanced ever since. Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series and Catalyst 6800 Series switches offer the same general features and operational consistency, and the modular Catalyst 6807-XL accepts the Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 2T and its extensive family of line cards and modules. This cross compatibility and program of continual enhancement preserves your technology expenditures and permits you to update your network backbone with little downtime or management team retraining.

Shared attributes of Catalyst 6500 and Cisco Catalyst 6800 modular switches equipped with the Supervisor Engine 2T include the Cisco ISE technology for convenient, centralized control to ensure unvarying policy throughout a distributed network, VSS Quad Sup SSO (VS4O) capability for 99.999% uptime via multi-level redundancy, and the Cisco Campus Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) to facilitate client roaming and device mobility and to streamline network virtualization and transition to IPv6. Additional virtual networking tools to partition specific user groups and support the unique security/compliance and QoS policy needs of each group include Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN, complete MPLS, Easy Virtual Network (EVN), VRF-aware technology for NAT NetFlow, GRE for v4/v6, and L2 geographic extensions with virtual private LAN services (VPLS). For converged wired/wireless networking, the Wireless Services Module 2 for Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series and Catalyst 6800 modular switches can manage as many as 1000 wireless access points and 15,000 wireless clients.

Cisco Catalyst 6500-E Series Switches
The Cisco Catalyst 6500-E line of modular switches are designed for distribution and enterprise backbone networks that require world-class uptime and high concentrations of 1 Gigabit Ethernet, 1 Gigabit Ethernet fiber, and/or 10 and 40 GE access ports. Available versions come with three to 13 slots and accept a wide selection of modules. Integrated service modules support wireless, traffic monitoring, and security and compliance. Just E-Series models of Cisco's broad family of Catalyst 6500 switches accept Cisco's Supervisor Engine 2T.

The entry-level Catalyst 6503-E has a 4RU chassis, holds 3 slots, and delivers 180 Gbps of switching throughput per slot. The Cisco Catalyst 6503-E supports up to 97 1-Gigabit Ethernet connections, up to 99 Gigabit Ethernet fiber ports, 34 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports, and up to 8 40GE access ports.

The high-end Catalyst 6513-E switch has a 19RU, 13-slot form factor and offers as much as 180 Gbps of bandwidth on each slot, providing a system capacity of up to 4 Tbps. A Virtual Switching System configured system can deliver up to 8 Tbps of switching throughout. The Cisco Catalyst 6513-E switch can support a maximum of 529 1 Gigabit Ethernet connections, up to 534 Gigabit Ethernet fiber connections, up to 180 10-Gigabit Ethernet connections, and 44 40-Gigabit Ethernet access ports.

Cisco Catalyst 6800 Switches
Catalyst 6800 Series switches are campus core switches intended to provide optimal 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet services. The Cisco Catalyst 6880-X switch is a fixed-configuration, compact platform for Ethernet aggregation designed for small or medium-size enterprise campus backbones. The 6880-X switch delivers as much as 2 Tbps switching capacity and includes four slots for port cards. The maximum port density on one chassis is 80 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports or 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports or up to 20 40-Gigabit Ethernet connections. Configured with Cisco's Virtual Switching System, these switches can deliver 4 Tbps switching capacity and handle as many as 158 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports or 10GE access ports or up to 20 40GE access ports.

The modular Cisco Catalyst 6807-XL switch comes in a 10-rack-unit form factor that has 7 slots and accepts standard Supervisor Engine 2T cards and service modules. (Two slots are for the Supervisor Engine and five are for modules.) The Catalyst 6807-XL switch can deliver as much as 880 Gbps of switching throughput per slot and 11.4 Tbps of full-duplex switching performance while handling up to 240 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports or 1GE fiber connections, up to 80 10GE access ports or 20 40GE access ports. A two-chassis 6807-XL system configured with Cisco's Virtual Switching System is capable of supporting 22.8 Tbps of switching throughput, 480 10/100/1000 Ethernet access ports or 1GE fiber ports, 160 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports or 40 40GE ports.

Ways That Progent Can Help Your Business with Catalyst Series Switches
Progent offers the online or onsite services of Cisco CCIE-certified consultants who have extensive experience delivering Catalyst switch solutions for small and midsize organizations, branches, enterprise campuses, data centers, Cloud environments, and SPs. Progent's areas of expertise include Catalyst and Nexus lines of smart switches and with Cisco's IOS and NX-OS control software. Services offered by Progent for Catalyst switches include proof-of-concept testing and validation, network analysis, network architecture design, upgrades and project management, network virtualization, wired and wireless unification, network management, capacity planning, problem mitigation, disaster recovery preparedness, and data security and compliance assessment and validation.

Progent's Cisco-certified consultants have broad knowledge of industry standards and with proprietary Cisco protocols related to switching and routing including Border Gateway Protocol, MPLS, PIM, VPNs, STP, virtual LANs, FabricPath, VPC, HSRP, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol, OSPF, Virtual Switching System (VSS), and Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP). Progent's infrastructure experts also have familiarity with key networking technologies including TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6, EIGRP, Routing Information Protocol (RIP), and IGMP. Progent's CISSP-ISSAP certified network security and compliance consultants can assist you to develop an enterprise-wide security and compliance plan and implement Cisco Catalyst switches so that they offer maximum enforcement to your network security policies.

In case you require the highest available Ethernet density or extremely low latency Cisco switches for a world-class data center, Progent can help your organization to analyze, design, and manage a transition to Cisco's Nexus family of switches. For information about Progent's consulting capabilities for Nexus Series switches, see Cisco Nexus Switch consulting and support services available from Progent. 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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