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The Catalyst line of modular and fixed managed switches offers performance and intelligence at the access, aggregation, and core areas of converged voice, HD video, and data networks for businesses that range from small businesses and branch offices to global enterprises and service providers. Progent's Cisco-certified consultants can provide remote and onsite expertise with Catalyst family switches to help your organization to design an efficient infrastructure that addresses your specific business requirements, configure proof-of-concept testing systems, install Catalyst switches, implement and validate a sensible security and compliance plan, automate network management and monitoring, deliver troubleshooting and maintenance services, maximize switch performance, and configure Catalyst's fault-tolerant technology for non-stop operation.

Progent can help you to maintain and troubleshoot your legacy Catalyst switches or migrate efficiently to the latest models of Catalyst switches adhering to industry best practices to make sure that you get the most business value from your investment in your network.

The demand for intelligent, high-speed switching is driven by a combination of relatively new networking trends whose net impact is a cyber avalanche of data traffic:

• Cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) networking and a consequent need for massive network virtualization
• The proliferation of always-connected mobile devices
• Bandwidth-intensive rich media applications
• Social media for business
• The rise of Big Data in data analytics
• Increasingly advanced cyberattacks such as ransomware

Cisco's latest lineup of Catalyst switches are best suited for the distribution/core layers of campus deployments where office employees must be accommodated by providing consistent high speed, secure client access control, tight segregation, application intelligence, and wired/wireless convergence. Catalyst series switches are designed to meet the need for speed and control with features such as high-port-count 10G/40G/100G support, switching throughput more than 25T per switch, a powerful catalog of tools including Easy Virtual Network (EVN) to simplify the deployment of VLANs, VSS technology for switch failover with subsecond virtual switch restoration and "five nines" (99.999%) availability, IPv6 capability, Application Visibility and Control (AVC) to maximize system resource usage, and advanced QoS tools for business-critical data prioritization.

Cisco Catalyst switches allow organizations of any size to benefit from incorporating smart switching services into their network infrastructure, deploying an ecosystem that can handle real-time requirements, expand to support expected capacity demands, guard vital information, and separate and manage tasks to optimize network operations.

Catalyst 1000 Series Fixed Ethernet Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 1000 Layer 2 network access switches are small form factor, fixed switches intended for smaller businesses and branch offices with up to 250 workers and with minimal internal IT support. The Catalyst 1000 Series includes fanless models for quiet operation within an office environment. Mounting options include desktop, wall or shelf mount, rack mount, and DIN rail mount. Created as a simple replacement for Catalyst 2960-L or 2960-Plus deployments, the Catalyst 1000 family includes models with 8 to 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports or 24 to 48 Fast Ethernet 10/100M ports.

Catalyst 1000 configuration and administration are easy via a web interface or CLI, security is enterprise-class, and Power over Ethernet capability with a dynamically allocated budget of 740W supports a wide range of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. Up to eight Catalyst 1000 Gigabit Ethernet model switches can be controlled together with single IP. Catalyst 1000 models are line-rate devices, and all are based on Cisco's venerable IOS operating system software. QoS capabilities include egress queues for each port as well as priority queuing to allow optimized performance for time-critical data. Catalyst 1000 switches also offer SRR service scheduling and Weighted Tail Drop congestion avoidance.

Catalyst 9000 Fixed and Modular Managed Switches
The Catalyst 9000 line of managed switches includes modular and fixed appliances and can support all deployment scenarios including access, distribution, and core switching. The Cisco Catalyst 9000 family offers switches with the appropriate value proposition to connect workers and things in environments ranging from small businesses and branch offices to major enterprises. Catalyst 9000 products can be set up to support any mix of local deployments, private/public clouds, and hybrid networks. Unified network management platforms and advanced security features reduce expenses by streamlining operations and safeguarding critical IT assets. Cisco's 9000X series of switches offer converged switching/routing, delivering the first combination of 400G QSFP-DD ports along with full mGig Ethernet and Power-over-Ethernet ports.

With double the backplane stacking bandwidth at around half the price of the end-of-life Cisco Catalyst 2960-X and 2960-XR switches they are intended to replace, Catalyst 9200 Series switches are a natural infrastructure update for small branch offices and midsize campus deployments. The 9200 product line includes switches that offer 24 or 48 ports with full PoE+; 80-160 Gbps stacking bandwidth; streaming telemetry; and Layer 3 capabilities that include OSPF Interior Gateway Protocol, EIGRP, IS-IS link-state protocol, and RIP. Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series switches run the Cisco IOS XE operating system.

The Catalyst 9200 offers 160-Gbps stacking throughput, supports onsite-replaceable redundant power supplies and fans, and supports add-in modules with 4x1G, 4x1/10G, 2x25G, or 2x40G uplink. Cisco's Catalyst 9200 Enhanced VN switch supports as many as 32 Virtual Networks and delivers 160-Gbps backplane stacking bandwidth. The Catalyst 9200L offers 80-Gbps backplane stacking performance. The Catalyst 9200L multigigabit and the Catalyst 9200 multigigabit support wireless bandwidth tuning with 8 or 12 multigigabit ports as fast as 10G.

Cisco's Catalyst 9300 Series switches are fixed, stackable units for ultra-high-density access switching. Advanced capabilities available with various models in the Catalyst 9300 product line include up to 1Tbps backplane stacking throughput, stackable high-speed fiber, up to 448 multigigabit Ethernet ports including 288 ports of 90W UPOE+ with an 8-unit stack, line rate IPsec with AES-256 Encryption and performance as high as 100G, high-availability redundant fans and power, plus data stack cables compatible throughout the entire Catalyst 9300 product line.

Based on 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 patching. Security capabilities include Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA) along with AES-256 MACsec and IPSec encryption, plus Cisco Trust Anchor Technologies with Secure Boot. Cloud cybersecurity is enhanced because Catalyst 9300 switches can host Cisco's Umbrella agent directly. This allows organizations to implement their DNS filtering policies at a granular user or group level to block BYOD or IoT users from accessing dangerous websites.

The value-priced Cisco Catalyst 9300L switch provides up to 320G stacking throughput 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 ports. The Cisco Catalyst 9300 switch offers 480G of backplane stacking bandwidth and can provide 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 supported are 1G, 10G, 25G, or 40G. The high-end Cisco Catalyst 9300X appliance delivers 1T backplane stacking throughput and supports 48 10G port density. The 9300X supports uplink modules with dual-rate 100G/40G, multirate 25G/10G/1G, or mGig. Cisco 90W Universal Power Over Ethernet+ supports IoT-intensive environments such as smart buildings. Cisco offers hardware to support 100G IPsec.

Cisco's Catalyst 9400 Series devices are modular switches powered by Cisco IOS XE and targeted for medium-size and large campus access networks. Delivering double the performance and more than four times the chassis bandwidth as the legacy Catalyst 6500 line it is designed to replace, the Catalyst 9400 portfolio brings switch capability into the modern age of networking driven by security, mobility, IoT, and cloud.

Catalyst 9400 appliances are offered with 4-slot, 7-slot, and 10-slot chassis. Two of the slots on the chassis are dedicated to redundant supervisor cards, leaving 2, 5, or 8 slots open for line cards. Maximum bandwidth per line-card slot is 480 Gbps. Switching capacity can achieve 1.44 Terabits per second and forwarding performance on Supervisor Module is as high as 9 Tbps for the 10-slot chassis. All Catalyst 9400 switches offer 90W UPOE+ on every access port, secure network segmentation with Software-Defined Access and N+N/N+1 power redundancy for high resilience. The Catalyst 9400 4-slot switch supports 96 10/100/1000 Ethernet 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 SFP+ uplinks.

Cisco's Catalyst 9500 product line consists of fixed core and edge services switches designed for the large campus. Catalyst 9500 switches are based on the Cisco IOS XE operating system and the series incorporates the first network technology to provide switching rates higher than 25 Tbps.

Cisco's Catalyst 9500 models provide up to 6.4 Terabits per second switching performance with forwarding speed as high as 2 Bpps. Catalyst 9500 switches can provide up to 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 MEC multipathing across StackWise-Virtual members for high availability.

Catalyst 9500X appliances support as high as 25.6 Tbps switching performance with up to 2 Billion Packet per Second forwarding speed. Catalyst 9500X devices deliver up to 28 nonblocking 40/100 GB QSFP28 ports or 8 nonblocking 40/100/200/400 G QSFP-DD ports. The 9500X product line also includes hardware capability for line-rate 256-bit 802.1AE MACsec and WAN-MACsec1 data encryption.

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 ports, 96 nonblocking 40/100G Gigabit ports, or 8 nonblocking 200/400 GE QSFP-DD ports. The Catalyst 9600 also supports dual-rate 40G/100G and 10G/25G optics. Two chassis slots are reserved for high-availability supervisors. You can combine a variety of line cards for core and aggregation deployment scenarios. The chassis is equipped with a passive backplane, so you can change out fan tray, power supplies, and line cards without disrupting operation.

End-of-Life Catalyst Products Still Supported by Progent
Progent's Cisco certified network consultants have extensive backgrounds providing remote and on-premises support services for older Catalyst switches which have reached End of Life. These outdated Catalyst switches often are more expensive to operate and maintain than current models, deliver less capacity and functionality, and for some situations may expose organizations to regulatory and liability issues. Progent are available to help your business to support and troubleshoot these legacy Cisco products and can in addition assist you to design and carry out seamless migrations to current products from the Catalyst line or to devices from the Cisco Nexus portfolio of network switches which build upon Catalyst design experience.

Catalyst Express 500 and 520 Switches
Cisco's Catalyst Express 500 and 520 family of managed Ethernet switches are designed for companies with as many as 250 employees and deliver the reliability, security, extensibility, and feature set small companies need at an affordable price. PoE capability makes it simple to install network devices like wireless access points and closed-circuit cameras.

Versions of the Catalyst Express 500 switches offer up to 24 10/100/1000BT ports as well as optional backup power with automatic fail-over for additional reliability. Integration with Cisco access points helps businesses to build a local wireless environment quickly and effectively. The Cisco Catalyst Express 500 family offers strong protection against malicious attacks thanks to the Cisco Self-Defending Network technology and Clean Access solutions. Catalyst 2940 Switch
Catalyst 2900 fixed-configuration, managed 10/100 switches offer fundamental workgroup networking for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). These wire-speed desktop switches deliver Cisco IOS Software features for simple mixed-media traffic control at the edge of the network. The Catalyst 2940 family of switches are small, entry-level devices featuring 8 Ethernet ports plus a single built-in Fast or Gbit uplink. They can be installed away from the wiring cabinet in cramped areas like on a user's desk or in a classroom.

Cisco Catalyst 2960-S Series Switch
The Cisco Catalyst 2960-S Series are fixed switches intended for small businesses and branch offices. Current versions have 24 or 48 1Gb Ethernet ports, four 1GE or two 10GE uplink ports, and provide throughput of 176 Gbps. Cisco's FlexStack technology allows four Catalyst 2960-S chassis to be combined in a FlexStack stack to act like one switch that provides 40 Gbps of stacking bandwidth and that reduces administrative expense because of single-switch configuration. Cisco's IPv6 First Hop Security technology protects networks against IPv6 address interception and malicious attacks.

Cisco Catalyst 3560 Switches
The Catalyst 3560 family is a line of fixed-configuration switches that includes IEEE 802.3af and Power over Ethernet (PoE) capability in Fast Ethernet and 10/100/1000 configurations. Cisco's Catalyst 3560 Series switch is an ideal access-layer switch for midsize business network connectivity or branch-office environments, offering both 10/100/1000 and Power over Ethernet (PoE) options for high efficiency while streamlining the deployment of key technology such a Voice over IP, Wi-Fi, video surveillance, and building management systems. IT managers can deploy network-wide smart features such as QoS, rate limiting, access control lists (ACLs), multicast management, and fast IP routing while maintaining the ease of conventional network switching.

The Cisco Catalyst 3560 Series switch offers a robust array of features that allow for network scalability and higher resilience via IP routing as well as a complete complement of STP improvements aimed to increase availability in an access Layer LAN. Improvements to the standard STP Protocol, such as Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVST+), Uplink Fast, and Port Fast, combined with innovations such as Flex Links, contribute to network uptime. Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus supports Data Link Layer traffic balancing on redundant links to take advantage of the extra bandwidth inherent in a redundant design.

Efficient technologies such as Open Shortest Path First, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol, BGP, static routing, and Policy Based Routing increase system scale; Protocol Independent Multicast improves resource utilization; and Virtual Route Forwarding Lite secures data.

Catalyst 3750 Series Switches
For mid-size organizations and enterprise branch offices, the Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series switch simplifies deployment of converged applications and accommodates changing business environments by providing configuration versatility, support for unified network patterns, and automatic set up of intelligent network services. Also, the Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series switch is engineered for high-volume Gigabit Ethernet deployments and incorporates a diverse range of switches that meet the connectivity, distribution, and backbone-connectivity requirements of small or midsized networks.

The Cisco Catalyst 3750 switch includes either the IP Base image or the IP Services image. The IP Base image functions include industry-leading QoS, rate-management, access control lists (ACLs), and simple static and Routing Information Protocol routing capability. The IP Services image provides a richer set of enterprise-class features, including sophisticated built-in IP unicast and multicast routing.

StackWise technology is an architecture designed for Gigabit interfaces. This technology is intended to react to installs, deletions, and redeployments while maintaining dependable performance. Cisco StackWise technology unites up to nine separate switches into one functional device, using custom stack-interface cables and stacking software. Each of the switches can be any combination of the Cisco Catalyst 3750 switches and the Cisco Catalyst 3750-E Series. The stack behaves as an individual switching device that is managed by a control switch, chosen from one of the member switches. The master switch automatically creates and updates all the switching and optional routing databases. A deployed stack can accommodate new switches or remove existing switches with no service discontinuity.

Cisco Catalyst 2960 Swiches and Catalyst 3560-CX Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 2960-CX is a fixed-configuration managed switch that is ultra-compact, fanless, power efficient, and allows a variety of mounting options. The device incorporates eight 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports and two Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports and has an option for PoE+ power. Cisco's Catalyst 3560-CX appliance is a fixed-port switch housed in a sleek, quiet and low-power enclosure that can be placed almost anywhere outside a wiring closet. Models are offered with 8 or 12 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports or with 6 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports and 2 multigigabit Ethernet ports. Up to four uplinks are available, and PoE+ power is also an option.

Cisco's Catalyst 2960-L family includes entry-level fixed-port switches targeted for small offices, retail areas, and other environments where space is at a premium. These low-profile switches include 8 to 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports and 2 or 4 Small Form-Factor Pluggable uplink ports. Power over Ethernet support saves space and fan-free design for most versions eliminates noise. RJ-45 connectors handle 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-T SFP-based ports.

Cisco Catalyst 2960-X and Catalyst 2960-XR switches improve on the 2690-S family by offering switching throughput of 216 Gbps and supporting Cisco's FlexStack-Plus Stacking via a live-swappable module that allows 8 Catalyst switches in a stack capable of 80 Gbps of stacking throughput. Catalyst 2900 Series switches also work with NetFlow-Lite for application visibility and control. The Catalyst 2960-XR switch features L3 dynamic routing, providing the convenience of using a single switch for L2 and L3 routing.

Cisco Catalyst 3650 and 3850 Series Switches
Catalyst 3650 and Catalyst 3850 switches are fixed-configuration, stackable access switches powered by Cisco's IOS XE operating system and incorporating full wireless network controller functionality that lets you control wired and wireless infrastructure on a one device managed by one OS. Cisco has versions with 24 or 48 1Gb Ethernet connections with Power over Ethernet plus, four 1GE or four 10GE uplink ports, and support for up to 9 Catalyst switches in a stack. All versions provide modular Quality of Service, fast failover for maximum availability, software support for IPv4/IPv6 routing, multicast, and enhanced security features.

Since wireless data traffic is present at the Catalyst 3000 Series switch, administrators can spot and assign priorities to wireless data using Cisco's Flexible NetFlow technology along with sophisticated Quality of Service capabilities for a better wireless user experience and quicker problem mediation. Fast Ethernet switching can handle the high-bandwidth called for by the new 802.11ac Wave 2 Wi-Fi specification using currently in-place cabling solutions. (For information about Progent's consulting services for Cisco's 802.11ac Wi-Fi products, and Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, refer to Planning and Deployment Consulting Services for Cisco Wireless Access Points and Controllers.)

The Cisco Catalyst 3650 offers stacking bandwidth of 160 Gbps and can control as many as 25 Wi-Fi APs and 1000 wireless users on each switch. The Cisco Catalyst 3850 switch delivers stacking throughput of 480 Gbps and can control as many as 50 wireless APs and 2000 wireless users on each stack. Cisco Catalyst 3850 SFP Fiber Switches have 12 or 24 1G fiber ports at line rate on every port, offering long distance connectivity, enhanced security, and a consistent wired and wireless experience.

Catalyst 4500-E Series and Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 4500-E Series and and Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series switches are designed for access and distribution environments where space for networking equipment is limited. Running Cisco's IOS XE operating system, the Catalyst 4500-E and 4500-X product lines facilitate network virtualization by supporting Cisco's EVN and VSS technologies. Network virtualization makes it possible to segment a hardware network into a number of virtual networks (VNs) whose data and control planes are logically segregated. This provides the economy, security and compliance, recoverability, and manageability needed for Cloud computing or other situations where a single resource pool is used by software and services that need to run in complete isolation from one another. EVN streamlines the task of deploying VNs and scales to 32 VNs for each switch. Easy Virtual Network utilizes the capabilities of Multi-virtual routing and forwarding and includes new technologies such as VNET Tags and a simple technique for duplicating replicating routes between virtual networks. Virtual Switching System makes it possible to set up Catalyst 4500-E and 4500-X Series switches to create non-stop virtual networks with advanced traffic load balancing.

Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Switches
The Supervisor Engine for for the Catalyst 4500-E modular switch includes a built-in wireless network controller that works with Cisco's Unified Access technology for wired and wireless convergence. The Supervisor Engine 8-E is the initial Catalyst supervisor engine to permit wired plus wireless services on a single platform based on IOS XE software. Technologies include Cisco's FNF solution for application visibility encompassing wired and wireless networks, Cisco TrustSec/SGT2 wired and wireless data security, predictable QoS for wired and Wi-Fi networks, and the expansion of Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover (NSF/SSO) to include Wi-Fi data traffic for enterprise-quality high availability.

Available in chassis that have from three to 10 slots, Catalyst 4500-E Series switches can support as many as 384 1-Gigabit Ethernet access ports, up to 192 Gigabit Ethernet non-blocking fiber ports, 96 10-Gigabit Ethernet fiber connections, and eight 10-Gigabit Ethernet uplinks. The Catalyst 4500-E Supervisor Engine 8-E provides as much as 928 Gbps of wired throughput per system and 20 Gbps of wireless termination capacity. 50 wireless APs and 2000 wireless clients can be supported per chassis, and 250 APs and 4000 clients are managed in a dual-switch deployment without requiring a separate wireless network controller.

Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches
Catalyst 4500-X switches are fixed-configuration 10GE aggregation platforms that can deliver 800 Gbps of backplane switching capacity per chassis. The Catalyst 4500-X switch supports up to 32 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports on the unit's baseboard and eight additional 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports on the expansion module for a total of 40 non-blocking 10GE connections. Eight 10GE uplinks are also available with a separate module. In addition to offering zero-downtime operation and simple management, Cisco's virtual switching system technology on Catalyst 4500-X Series switches offers higher system throughput of as much as 1.6 Tbps by activating all possible bandwidth across redundant Catalyst 4500-X switches. Other advanced features include Flexible NetFlow solution for traffic analysis, Cisco TrustSec security, and wire-rate IPv6 forwarding.

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches
Catalyst 6500 Series and Catalyst 6800 switches are enterprise campus core platforms that incorporate the proven technology of the Catalyst 6500 line of products, which first appeared more than a dozen years ago and which have been continually enhanced since then. Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco Catalyst 6800 switches offer identical features and operation, and the modular Cisco Catalyst 6807-XL accepts the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 2T and its portfolio of line cards and modules. This mutual compatibility and commitment to ongoing enhancement protects your infrastructure expenditures and permits you to upgrade your network backbone with minimal business disruption or management team re-education.

Shared features of Catalyst 6500 and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series modular switches equipped with the Supervisor Engine 2T include the Cisco ISE technology for simple, centralized management to put in place unvarying policy across a distributed environment, Virtual Switching System capability for maximum uptime via multi-level failover, and Cisco's Campus Locator/ID Separation Protocol to facilitate roaming and mobility and to simplify virtualization and migration to IPv6. Additional virtualization features to segment distinct user groups and support the unique security/compliance and QoS policy needs of every group include Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN, complete MPLS, EVN, VPN Routing and Forwarding-aware applications for Network Address Translation NetFlow, IPv6 over IPv4 GRE Tunnels, and L2 extensions with virtual private LAN services. For unified wired and wireless networking, the Wireless Services Module 2 controller Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco Catalyst 6800 modular switches supports up to 1000 wireless APs and 15,000 wireless users.

Catalyst 6500-E Switches
The Catalyst 6500-E family of modular switches are designed for distribution and enterprise core networks that need world-class availability and high densities of 1 Gigabit Ethernet, 1 GE fiber, or 10 and 40 GE ports. Models come with three to 13 expansion slots and accept a broad range of interfaces. Integrated service modules support wireless, traffic analysis, and security and compliance. Just E-Series models of Cisco's extensive family of Catalyst 6500 switches are compatible with Cisco's Supervisor Engine 2T.

The value-priced Catalyst 6503-E has a 4 rack unit (4RU) chassis, holds 3 slots, and offers up to 180 Gbps of switching performance per slot. The Catalyst 6503-E supports up to 97 1-Gigabit Ethernet connections, up to 99 Gigabit Ethernet fiber connections, 34 10GE ports, and 8 40GE access ports.

The high-end Catalyst 6513-E has a 19RU, 13-slot form factor and offers up to 180 Gbps of bandwidth per slot, with a system bandwidth as high as 4 Tbps. A Virtual Switching System configuration can handle 8 Tbps of capacity. The Cisco Catalyst 6513-E Series switch offers up to 529 1 Gigabit Ethernet connections, up to 534 1GE fiber ports, 180 10GE access ports, and up to 44 40-Gigabit Ethernet connections.

Cisco Catalyst 6800 Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 6800 Series switches are programmable backbone platforms designed to provide best-of-breed 10/40/100 GE support. The Catalyst 6880-X switch is a fixed, compact switch for Ethernet aggregation designed for small or midsize campus cores. The Catalyst 6880-X switch delivers up to 2 Tbps switching performance and features four slots for port cards. The maximum port density on one chassis is 80 1 Gigabit Ethernet connections or 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports or as many as 20 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports. Configured with Cisco's Virtual Switching System, a two-chassis system can provide 4 Tbps switching performance and handle up to 158 1 Gigabit Ethernet access ports or 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports or as many as 20 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports.

The modular Catalyst 6807-XL switch has a 10 RU chassis that has 7 expansion slots and accepts standard Supervisor Engine 2T cards and service modules. (Two slots are reserved for the Supervisor Engine and the other five are for modules.) The Cisco Catalyst 6807-XL offers up to 880 Gbps of switching performance on each slot and 11.4 Tbps of full-duplex switching throughput while providing up to 240 10/100/1000 Ethernet connections or 1GE fiber ports, up to 80 10-Gigabit Ethernet access ports or up to 20 40GE ports. an 6807-XL system configured with VSS can support 22.8 Tbps of switching capacity, 480 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports or Gigabit Ethernet fiber connections, 160 10GE ports or 40 40GE ports.

Ways That Progent Can Assist You with Cisco Catalyst Switches
Progent can provide the remote or on-premises services of CCIE-certified network consultants who have broad experience providing Catalyst switch support for small and medium sized businesses, branches, enterprises, data centers, Cloud networks, and SPs. Progent's areas of expertise include Catalyst and Nexus lines of managed switches and with Cisco's IOS and NX-OS operating systems. Support services available from Progent's experts for Cisco Catalyst Series switches include pilot testing and validation, network analysis, topology design, migrations and project management, virtualization, wired and wireless unification, management automation, performance optimization, problem mitigation, disaster recovery planning, and network security and compliance testing and verification.

Progent's Cisco-certified consultants have broad expertise with open standards and with proprietary Cisco protocols and technologies associated with switching and routing such as Border Gateway Protocol, MPLS traffic engineering, PIM, VPNs, STP, VLANs, FabricPath, VPC, Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP), VRRP, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), VSS, and Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP). Progent's infrastructure experts also offer experience with key networking technologies such as TCP/IP protocols, IPv4, IPv6, EIGRP, Routing Information Protocol (RIP), and IGMP. Progent's CISSP-ISSAP certified network security and compliance consultants can show you how to develop an enterprise-wide security and compliance strategy and implement Cisco Catalyst switches so they provide optimal support for your security posture.

In case you need the highest available Ethernet density or sub-microsecond latency Cisco switches for an enterprise-class data center, Progent can help your organization to analyze, plan, and implement a migration to Cisco's Nexus switches. To learn about Progent's support capabilities for Cisco's Nexus Series switches, refer to Nexus Switch consulting services. Progent can also assist you to connect Catalyst core switches with Cisco Meraki aggregation switches. (See Cisco Meraki switch integration consultants.)

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