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The Catalyst family of modular and fixed-configuration managed switches offers speed and intelligence at the access, distribution, and backbone areas of converged IP voice, video, and high bandwidth data networks for organizations that range from small businesses and branches to global enterprises and service providers. Progent's Cisco-certified consultants offer online and on-premises support for Catalyst family switches to help your organization to plan an efficient network topology that meets your unique business needs, set up proof-of-concept testing systems, install Catalyst switches, implement and validate a sound security and compliance strategy, streamline network management and monitoring, deliver repair and support services, optimize switch performance, and set up Catalyst's fault-tolerant technology for near-zero downtime.

Progent can assist you to maintain and repair your older Catalyst switches or upgrade smoothly to up-to-date models of Catalyst switches adhering to leading practices to make sure that you receive the highest return from your investment in your network.

The demand for intelligent, fast switching is the result 0f a confluence of fairly new computing trends whose overall impact is a virtual tsunami of traffic:

• Cloud and IoT computing and an associated requirement for intensive virtualization
• The proliferation of BYOD computing
• Bandwidth-intensive rich media applications
• Social media for business
• The rise of Big Data in analytics
• Ever more advanced threats like ransomware

Cisco's current portfolio of Catalyst switches are best suited for the distribution/core layers of enterprise campus environments where mobile and stationary employees must be supported with unvarying high speed, strict user access control, tight segmentation, application intelligence, and wired and wireless convergence. Cisco's Catalyst switches are designed to meet the demand for speed and intelligence with capabilities such as high-density 10G/40G/100G support, switching throughput more than 25 Tbps for each chassis, a powerful suite of technologies including Easy Virtual Network to simplify the creation of VLANs, Virtual Switching System technology for stateful interchassis failover with subsecond virtual switch recovery and "five nines" (99.999%) uptime, IPv6 capability, Application Visibility and Control to optimize system utilization, and sophisticated Quality of Service (QoS) tools for business-critical traffic prioritization.

Cisco Catalyst switches enable businesses of all sizes to benefit from incorporating intelligent switching features into their network infrastructure, deploying an ecosystem that can handle current needs, expand to accommodate expected growth, guard sensitive information, and differentiate and control processes to enhance network operations.

Catalyst 1000 Series Fixed Ethernet Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 1000 Series access switches are small form factor, fixed-configuration switches intended for small businesses and branches with as many as 250 users and with little if any internal IT support. Cisco's Catalyst 1000 Series includes fanless models for silent operation outside a wiring closet in an office venue. Mounting alternatives include desktop, wall mount, standard rack mount, and DIN. Designed as an easy replacement for Catalyst 2960-L or 2960-Plus Series deployments, Cisco's Catalyst 1000 portfolio includes models with 8 to 48G Ethernet ports or 24 to 48 Fast Ethernet 10/100M ports.

Catalyst 1000 set up and management are simple via a web UI or CLI, cybersecurity is enterprise-grade, and PoE+ ports with a dynamically allocated budget of 740W allows a broad range of IoT deployments. As many as eight Catalyst 1000 Gigabit Ethernet Series switches can be controlled at once with single IP. All Catalyst Series 1000 appliances are nonblocking line-rate switches, and all are based on Cisco's venerable IOS Software. Quality-of-Service (QoS) features include egress queues for each port as well as priority queuing to provide wire-speed performance for all classes of data. Catalyst Series 1000 switches also support Shaped Round Robin service scheduling and WTD congestion avoidance.

Cisco Catalyst 9000 Fixed and Modular Managed Switches
The Catalyst 9000 family of switches offers modular and fixed switches and supports all deployment scenarios including access, distribution, and core switching. The Cisco Catalyst 9000 family includes switches with the appropriate price/performance to connect people and things in environments from small businesses and branch offices to global enterprises. Catalyst 9000 products can be configured to support any mix of local deployments, private and public clouds, and hybrid networks. Modern network management utilities and advanced security features reduce expenses by saving time and safeguarding critical IT assets. Cisco's 9000X family of switches offer converged switching and routing, introducing the first combination of 400G optical transceivers along with full mGig Ethernet and Power-over-Ethernet ports.

With double the stacking bandwidth at about half the cost of the legacy Cisco Catalyst 2960-X and 2960-XR switches they are intended to replace, Catalyst 9200 Series switches are a compelling network improvement for small branch offices and midsize campus deployments. The 9200 portfolio includes models that support 24 or 48 ports with full Power over Ethernet; 80-160 Gbps backplane stacking performance; and Layer 3 features such as OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS, and routed access. Catalyst 9200 switches are powered by the Cisco IOS XE operating system.

The Catalyst 9200 delivers 160-Gbps backplane stacking capacity, supports onsite-replaceable redundant power supplies and fans, and supports swappable interface modules with 4x1G, 4x1/10G, 2x25G, or 2x40G uplink. The Catalyst 9200 Enhanced VN switch allows up to 32 Virtual Networks and delivers 160-Gbps backplane stacking capacity. The Catalyst 9200L delivers 80-Gbps stacking throughput. Both the Catalyst 9200L multigigabit and the Catalyst 9200 multigigabit offer wireless bandwidth tuning with 8 or 12 mGig ports as fast as 10Gbps.

Cisco's Catalyst 9300 Series switches are fixed, stackable devices for ultra-high-density access switching. Key features available with various models in the Catalyst 9300 product line include 1T stacking performance, stackable SFP fiber, up to 448 mGig Ethernet ports including 288 ports of 90W UPOE+ with an 8-device stack, line rate IPsec tunnel with AES-256 Encryption and performance as high as 100G, HA fans and power, plus data stack and StackPower cables common across the entire Catalyst 9300 product line.

Powered by the Cisco IOS XE operating system, devices in the Catalyst 9300 product line offer auto provisioning, API-based configuration, high-granularity visibility for near realtime monitoring, and transparent software patching. Advanced security capabilities include Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA) as well as AES-256 MACsec and IPSec encryption, and Cisco Trust Anchor Technologies with Image signing. 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 customize their DNS filtering policies at user or group level to prevent BYOD or IoT users from accessing malicious websites.

The value-priced Cisco Catalyst 9300L switch features as much as 320G backplane stacking performance 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 can provide 48 100M/1G/2.5G/5Gbps ports, 24 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10Gbps ports, or 48 1G SFP ports. Modular uplink performance supported are 1G, 10G, 25G, or 40G. The top-of-the-line Cisco Catalyst 9300X switch delivers 1T backplane stacking throughput and offers 48 10G port density. The 9300X accepts modular uplinks with dual-rate 100G/40G, multirate 25G/10G/1G, or mGig. Cisco 90W Universal Power Over Ethernet+ supports dense IoT environments such as smart buildings. Hardware is available to support 100G IPsec.

Cisco's Catalyst 9400 Series appliances are modular switches based on Cisco IOS XE and designed for medium-size and enterprise campus access networks. Delivering twice the performance and over four times the chassis bandwidth as the legacy Catalyst 6500 it is built to replace, the Catalyst 9400 portfolio ushers switch technology into the current era of connectivity impelled by security, mobility, IoT, and cloud.

Catalyst 9400 switches are available with 4-slot, 7-slot, and 10-slot chassis. Two of the slots on the chassis are reserved for redundant supervisor cards, making 2, 5, or 8 slots available for line cards. Max bandwidth for each line-card slot is 480 Gbps. Switching capacity can reach 1.44 Terabits per second and forwarding rate on Supervisor Module can reach 9 Tbps with the 10-slot chassis. All Catalyst 9400 models offer 90W UPOE+ on every port, protected segmentation with Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) and N+N/N+1 power redundancy for high availability. Cisco's Catalyst 9400 4-slot switch can support 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 models can support 2 non-blocking 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP uplinks and 8 non-blocking 10G SFP+ uplinks.

The Catalyst 9500 product line consists of fixed core and edge services appliances intended for the enterprise campus. Catalyst 9500 models are based on Cisco IOS XE and the series includes the first network technology to deliver switching rates higher than 25 Tbps.

Cisco's Catalyst 9500 models provide up to 6.4 Terabits per second switching capacity with forwarding throughput as high as 2 Billion Packet per Second. Catalyst 9500 appliances 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 10 Gigabit SFP+ ports. You can deploy Multichassis EtherChannel (MEC) across Cisco StackWise-Virtual members for high availability.

Catalyst 9500X switches can provide as high as 25.6 Tbps switching performance with 2 Billion Packet per Second forwarding capacity. Catalyst 9500X devices deliver up to 28 nonblocking 40/100 Gigabit QSFP28 optical ports or 8 nonblocking 40/100/200/400 G QSFP-DD ports. The 9500X product line also includes hardware support for line-rate 256-bit 802.1AE 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 with a Catalyst 9600X Series Supervisor has switching performance as high as 25.6 Terabits per second and can contain up to 256 nonblocking 10/25/50 G ports, 96 nonblocking 40/100G Gigabit ports, or 8 nonblocking 200/400 Gigabit QSFP-DD ports. The Catalyst 9600 switch also provides dual-rate 40G/100G and 10G/25G optics. Two chassis slots are reserved for redundant supervisors. You can combine a selection of line cards for core and aggregation deployments. The Catalyst 9600 chassis has a passive backplane, making it possible to replace fan tray, power supplies, and line cards without disrupting operation.

End-of-Life Catalyst Switches Still Supported by Progent
Progent's Cisco certified network consultants have broad backgrounds providing remote and on-premises consulting and troubleshooting services for older Catalyst Series switches which have reached End of Life. These outdated switches typically are more expensive to manage and maintain than current products, deliver less capacity and fewer features, and in many situations may expose businesses to regulatory and liability issues. Progent are available to assist you to support and repair these older Cisco products and can in addition help you to plan and carry out non-disruptive migrations to current models from the Catalyst line or to devices from the Cisco Nexus portfolio of network switches which take advantage of Catalyst design experience.

Cisco Catalyst Express 500 and 520 Family of Switches
The Catalyst Express 500 and 520 line of Layer 2 switches are intended for organizations with up to 250 workers and provide the dependability, protection, expandability, and features small and mid-sized businesses require at an economical price. PoE capability makes it simple to add network appliances like wireless access points and closed-circuit cameras.

Versions of the Catalyst Express 500 switches support up to 24 10/100/1000BT ports as well as optional backup power with auto switch-over for extra dependability. Interoperation with Cisco access points allows organizations to build a wireless LAN network quickly and easily. The Cisco Catalyst Express 500 and 520 family offers strong security against malicious attacks With the Cisco Self-Defending Network strategy and Clean Access agents. Catalyst 2940 Switch
Cisco Catalyst 2900 non-modular, managed 10/100 switches offer fundamental small-group connectivity for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). These wire-rate desktop appliances offer Cisco IOS Software functions for simple data, video, and voice support at the network edge. The Catalyst 2940 family of switches are small-footprint, entry-level devices with 8 Fast Ethernet ports and a single integrated Fast Ethernet or Gbit uplink. They can be installed outside the wiring closet in cramped 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 designed for small businesses and branches. Current models have 24 or 48 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, four 1-Gigabit or two 10GE uplinks, and deliver switching capacity of up to 176 Gbps. Cisco's FlexStack feature allows as many as four 2960-S chassis to be grouped in a FlexStack stack to perform as one switch that provides 40 Gbps of stacking performance and that reduces operational expense with single-switch configuration. Cisco's IPv6 FHS capability protects networks against IPv6 address interception and other threats.

Catalyst 3560 Switches
The Catalyst 3560 family is a selection of fixed-configuration switches that features IEEE 802.3af and Power over Ethernet capability in 10/100 Ethernet and Gigabit implementations. Cisco's Catalyst 3560 Series switch is a proven Layer 2 switch for midsize business network connectivity or branch-office environments, combining both 10/100/1000 and PoE configurations for high productivity while streamlining the deployment of key applications including IP telephony, wireless access, video surveillance, and building management systems. IT managers can deploy network-wide intelligent services such as quality of service, rate limiting, ACLs, multicast management, and fast IP routing with the ease of conventional LAN switching.

Cisco's Catalyst 3560 Series is equipped with a robust array of capabilities that allow for network scalability and higher resilience through IP routing plus a complete suite of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) improvements aimed to maximize throughput in a Layer 2 LAN. Enhancements to the conventional Spanning Tree Protocol, including Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVST+), and Port Fast, as well as innovations like Flex Links Layer 2 interfaces, improve network efficiency. PVST+ allows for Layer 2 load balancing on backup links to efficiently use the additional capacity associated with a redundant architecture.

Efficient routing mechanisms including Open Shortest Path First (OPSF), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and static routing improve network scale; Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) improves resource utilization; and VRFLite protects data.

Catalyst 3750 Series Switches
For midsized businesses and enterprise branch offices, Cisco's Catalyst 3750 Series switch facilitates integration of converged technologies and accommodates evolving competitive environments by providing configuration flexibility, support for unified network patterns, and automatic set up of intelligent network services. In addition, the Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series is engineered for high-density Gigabit Ethernet deployments and incorporates a diverse range of switches that meet the access, aggregation, and backbone-connectivity requirements of small or midsized networks.

Cisco's Catalyst 3750 Series includes either the IP Base or the Services image. The IP Base image capabilities include industry-leading quality of service, rate-management, ACLs, and basic static and Routing Information Protocol (RIP) routing capability. The IP Services image provides a broader selection of high-end features, such as sophisticated hardware-based IP unicast/multicast routing.

StackWise technology is a mechanism optimized for Gigabit interfaces. StackWise is intended to respond to additions, deletions, and redeployments while maintaining consistent performance. StackWise unites up to nine individual switches into one functional device, using custom stack-interface cables and stacking utilities. The individual switches can be any mix of the Catalyst 3750 Series switches and Cisco's Catalyst 3750-E Series switches. The stack operates as an individual switching device that is directed by a master switch, chosen from one of the stack of switches. The control switch automatically creates and keeps current all the switching and user-selected routing databases. A working stack can accept new members or delete old devices with no operational discontinuity.

Catalyst 2960 Series Switches and 3560-CX Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 2960-CX is a fixed-configuration switch that is compact, fanless, low power, and includes flexible mounting options. The switch has eight 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports and two Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports and optionally provides PoE+ power. Cisco's Catalyst 3560-CX appliance is a fixed-port managed switch housed in a sleek, quiet and energy-efficient enclosure that can be mounted virtually anywhere convenient. Models are offered with eight or 12 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports or with 6 1-GE ports plus two multigigabit ports. Up to four uplink ports are offered, and PoE+ power is also an option.

Cisco's Catalyst 2960-L family includes entry-level fixed-port managed switches designed for small offices, retail venues, and other places where space is at a premium. Catalyst 2900-L low-profile appliances include 8 to 48 GE ports and two or four SFP uplink ports. PoE support reduces clutter and fanless design for 16- and 24-port versions eliminates noise. RJ-45 interfaces handle 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-T SFP-ports.

Cisco Catalyst 2960-X and 2960-XR Series switches enhance the 2690-S family of switches by offering switching throughput as high as 216 Gbps and supporting Cisco's FlexStack-Plus stacking technology by means of a hot-swappable module that can combine 8 Catalyst switches in a FlexStack Plus stack capable of 80 Gbps of stacking throughput. Cisco Catalyst 2900 family switches also work with NetFlow-Lite for conserving forwarding data for analysis. Cisco's Catalyst 2960-XR switch features Layer 3 dynamic routing, offering the simplicity of using one switch for L2 and L3 routing.

Cisco Catalyst 3650 and 3850 Switches
Cisco Catalyst 3650 and Catalyst 3850 switches are fixed, stackable access switches powered by Cisco's IOS XE control software and incorporating comprehensive wireless network controller functionality that lets you control wired and wireless networks on a one platform managed by a single OS. Cisco has versions with 24 or 48 1Gb Ethernet connections with PoE plus, four 1-Gigabit or four 10-GB Ethernet uplink connections, and support for up to 9 switches per FlexStack stack. All models provide modular Quality of Service, stateful failover for maximum availability, software support for IPv4 and IPv6 routing, multicast routing, and advanced security.

Because wireless traffic is visible at the Catalyst 3000 family switch, it is possible to identify and prioritize wireless data using Cisco's Flexible NetFlow (FNF) solution and advanced Quality of Service features for an improved user experience and faster problem mediation. Fast Ethernet switching supports the high-bandwidth defined by the new 802.11ac Wave 2 Wi-Fi specification on existing cabling solutions. (For information about Progent's consulting services for Cisco's 802.11ac Aironet Wi-Fi access points and wireless controllers, and Meraki cloud-managed APs, visit Configuration and Troubleshooting Consulting Services for Cisco Wireless Technology.)

The Cisco Catalyst 3650 Series switch delivers stacking performance of 160 Gbps and supports as many as 25 wireless access points and 1000 wireless users on each switch. The Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series switch offers stacking performance of 480 Gbps and supports as many as 50 Wi-Fi APs and 2000 Wi-Fi clients per stack. Cisco Catalyst 3850 SFP Fiber Switches have 12 or 24 1G fiber ports at line rate, providing long distance connectivity, advanced protection, and a consistent wired/wireless experience.

Catalyst 4500-E and Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches
Catalyst 4500-E and and Catalyst 4500-X Series switches are intended for campus and distribution deployments where space for networking equipment is limited. Powered by Cisco's IOS XE operating system, both the 4500-E and Catalyst 4500-X product lines facilitate network virtualization thanks to Cisco's Easy Virtual Network (EVN) and Virtual Switching System technologies. Network virtualization makes it possible to segment a physical network into a number of virtual networks whose data planes and control planes are logically separate. This provides the economy, security and compliance, resilience, and ease of management needed for Cloud computing or other situations where a common infrastructure must be shared by software and services that need to operate in complete privacy from each other. EVN simplifies the task of deploying virtual networks and can be expanded to 32 VNs for each switch. EVN incorporates features of Multi-virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) and provides new technologies such as VNET Trunks and an easy way for duplicating replicating routes connecting VNs. VSS technology makes it possible to set up Catalyst 4500-E and 4500-X Series switches to create non-stop VNs with advanced traffic load balancing.

Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Switches
Cisco's Supervisor Engine for for the Catalyst 4500-E switch includes an integrated wireless network controller that works with Cisco's Unified Access technology for wired/wireless convergence. this is the initial Catalyst supervisor engine to enable wired as well as wireless services on one platform powered by IOS XE. Technologies included are Cisco's Flexible NetFlow technology for capacity planning encompassing both wired and wireless networks, TrustSec/SGT2 wired/wireless data security, predictable QoS for wired and wireless networks, plus the expansion of Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover to include Wi-Fi data traffic for world-quality high availability.

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

Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 4500-X Series switches are fixed-configuration 10-Gigabit Ethernet aggregation switches that can provide 800 Gbps of backplane switching performance per device. The Catalyst 4500-X switch can have up to 32 10GE ports on the baseboard and eight extra 10GE ports on the optional expansion module for a maximum of 40 10GE ports. Eight 10-Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports can be added via another module. In addition to offering non-stop operation and easy management, Cisco's virtual switching system solution on Catalyst 4500-X Series switches offers increased system performance of up to 1.6 Tbps by enabling all possible bandwidth across VSS-linked Catalyst 4500-X Series switches. Other advanced features include Flexible NetFlow solution for traffic analysis, Cisco TrustSec protection, and fast, hardware-based IPv6 forwarding.

Cisco Catalyst 6500 and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches
Catalyst 6500 Series and Catalyst 6800 Series switches are enterprise campus core platforms that incorporate the proven technology of the Cisco Catalyst 6500 line of products, which were introduced more than a dozen years ago and have been steadily improved since then. Cisco Catalyst 6500 and Catalyst 6800 switches offer the same general features and operational consistency, and the modular Catalyst 6807-XL supports the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 2T and the associated portfolio of line cards and service modules. This cross compatibility and commitment to continual enhancement protects your technology expenditures and permits you to update your network backbone with little downtime or IT team retraining.

Common attributes of Cisco Catalyst 6500 and Cisco Catalyst 6800 modular switches that have the Supervisor Engine 2T include Cisco's Identity Services Engine (ISE) for convenient, centralized administration to put in place unvarying policy throughout a distributed environment, VSS Quad Sup SSO (VS4O) capability for 99.999% uptime via multi-level redundancy, and Cisco's Campus Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) to facilitate client roaming and mobility and to simplify virtualization and migration to IPv6. Other virtual networking tools to partition specific client groups and serve the unique security and QoS policy needs of each group include Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN, complete MPLS, Easy Virtual Network, VPN Routing and Forwarding-aware technology for Network Address Translation NetFlow, GRE for v4/v6, and Layer 2 extensions with virtual private LAN services. For converged wired and wireless networking, the Wireless Services Module 2 controller Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco Catalyst 6800 modular switches includes support for as many as 1000 APs and 15,000 wireless users.

Catalyst 6500-E Switches
The Cisco Catalyst 6500-E Series of modular switches are designed for distribution and enterprise core networks that require world-class availability and high concentrations of 1 Gigabit Ethernet, 1 GE fiber, or 10 and 40 GE access ports. Models come with three to 13 slots and accept a wide range of modules. Integrated service modules enable wireless management, network monitoring, and security and compliance. Only E-Series models of Cisco's broad line of 6500 switches work with Cisco's Supervisor Engine 2T.

The entry-level Cisco Catalyst 6503-E switch has a 4 rack unit form factor, includes 3 expansion slots, and offers as much as 180 Gbps of switching bandwidth on each slot. The Catalyst 6503-E switch can support up to 97 1-Gigabit Ethernet access ports, up to 99 Gigabit Ethernet fiber connections, up to 34 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports, and 8 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports.

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

Catalyst 6800 Series Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 6800 Series switches are campus backbone platforms designed to provide optimal 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet services. The Cisco Catalyst 6880-X switch is a fixed-configuration, compact switch for Ethernet aggregation intended for small or medium-size enterprise campus backbones. The 6880-X delivers as much as 2 Tbps performance and includes four slots for plug-in port cards. The maximum port concentration per chassis is 80 1 Gigabit Ethernet connections or 10GE access ports or as many as 20 40-Gigabit Ethernet connections. With VSS, a two-chassis system can provide 4 Tbps switching capacity and handle as many as 158 10/100/1000 Ethernet connections or 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports or as many as 20 40-Gigabit Ethernet access ports.

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

Ways That Progent Can Help Your Business with Cisco Catalyst Series Switches
Progent offers the remote or onsite support services of Cisco CCIE-certified network consultants who have broad backgrounds providing Catalyst switch support for small and midsize businesses, branches, enterprises, data centers, Cloud networks, and service providers. Progent's practice areas include Cisco's Catalyst and Nexus lines of smart switches and Cisco's IOS and NX-OS operating systems. Support services available from Progent's experts for Catalyst switches include proof-of-concept testing and validation, network analysis and monitoring, topology planning, upgrades and project management, virtualization, wired/wireless convergence, network management, capacity planning, problem mitigation, disaster recovery planning, and information security and compliance testing and validation.

Progent offers broad knowledge of industry standards as well as with proprietary Cisco protocols related to switching and routing including Border Gateway Protocol, MPLS traffic engineering, PIM, VPNs, STP, VLANs, FabricPath, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), HSRP, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Virtual Switching System (VSS), and LISP. Progent's infrastructure experts also offer familiarity with important networking technologies such as TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol, Routing Information Protocol (RIP), and Internet Group Management Protocol. Progent's CISSP-ISSAP certified information security and compliance consultants can assist you to create a comprehensive security and compliance plan and deploy Catalyst switches so they provide optimal enforcement to your security posture.

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

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