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Cisco's Catalyst line of modular and fixed-configuration switches offers speed and intelligence at the access, distribution, and core levels of converged IP voice, video, and high bandwidth data networks for businesses that range from small businesses and branch offices to multi-campus enterprises and service providers. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE consultants offer online and on-premises support for Catalyst family switches to assist your organization to plan an efficient network architecture that addresses your unique business needs, set up pilot testing, install Catalyst switches, establish and validate a sensible security and compliance plan, automate network management and monitoring, provide repair and maintenance services, optimize switch performance, and configure Catalyst's fault-tolerant solutions for near-zero downtime.

Progent can help you to manage and troubleshoot your legacy Catalyst switches or upgrade efficiently to up-to-date versions of Catalyst switches adhering to industry best practices to ensure that you receive the highest return from your investment in your IT infrastructure.

The demand for intelligent, high-speed switching is the result 0f a confluence of relatively new networking patterns whose overall effect is a virtual tsunami of traffic:

• Cloud and Internet of Things computing and a consequent requirement for massive virtualization
• The proliferation of personal endpoints
• Data guzzling HD video apps
• Social business technologies
• The popularity of Big Data in enterprise data analytics
• Increasingly sophisticated threats such as ransomware

Cisco's current portfolio of Catalyst switches are designed for the distribution and core layers levels of campus deployments where office workers must be accommodated by providing predictable high speed, strict access management, careful group isolation, application awareness, and wired and wireless convergence. Cisco's Catalyst series switches address the need for speed and intelligence with capabilities such as high-port-count 10, 40, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet support, switching capacity over 25 Tbps per chassis, a comprehensive catalog of technologies including Easy Virtual Network (EVN) to facilitate the deployment of VLANs, Virtual Switching System technology for switch failover with instant backup switch restoration and "five nines" (99.999%) uptime, IPv4 and IPv6 support, Application Visibility and Control to optimize network utilization, and sophisticated QoS capabilities for critical data prioritization.

Cisco Catalyst switches allow organizations of any size to benefit from incorporating intelligent switching features into their network architecture, deploying an ecosystem that can handle current requirements, expand to support future growth, guard vital information, and separate and manage tasks to enhance 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 small businesses and branch offices with as many as 250 users and with minimal in-house IT support. Cisco's Catalyst 1000 line includes fanless versions for noiseless operation within an office venue. Mounting alternatives include desktop, wall or shelf mount, standard rack mount, and DIN rail mount. Designed as an easy replacement for Catalyst 2960-L or 2960-Plus deployments, the Catalyst 1000 Series includes versions with 8 to 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports or 24 to 48 Fast Ethernet 10/100M ports.

Catalyst Series 1000 configuration and management are simple using a web interface or command-line interface, cybersecurity is enterprise-class, and PoE+ capability with an automatically allocated budget of 740W allows a broad variety of IoT deployments. As many as eight Catalyst 1000 Gigabit Ethernet model switches can be controlled together with single IP. Catalyst 1000 models are nonblocking line-rate devices, and all are powered by Cisco's venerable IOS operating system software. Quality-of-Service features include egress queues for every port as well as priority queuing to provide optimized throughput for data, IP voice, and video data. Catalyst Series 1000 switches also support Shaped Round Robin (SRR) service scheduling and Weighted Tail Drop (WTD) congestion management.

Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series Fixed and Modular Managed Switches
The Catalyst 9000 series of switches includes modular and fixed switches and supports all deployment models including access, aggregation, and core switching. The Catalyst 9000 family offers switches with the right price/performance to connect workers and things in environments from small businesses and branch offices to major enterprises. Catalyst 9000 switches can be set up to support any mix of local facilities, private and public clouds, and hybrid networks. Unified management utilities and cutting-edge cybersecurity features lower expenses by cutting operational overhead and protecting critical IT assets. Cisco's 9000X family of managed switches offer converged switching and routing, introducing the first combination of 400G QSFP-DD ports plus full mGig and Power-over-Ethernet ports.

With twice the stacking bandwidth for around half the cost of the end-of-life Cisco Catalyst 2960-X and 2960-XR switches they are designed to replace, Catalyst 9200 Series switches are a natural infrastructure upgrade for small branch offices and midsize campus deployments. The Catalyst 9200 portfolio includes models that offer 24 or 48 ports with full Power over Ethernet; 80-160 Gbps backplane stacking performance; streaming telemetry; and Layer 3 capabilities that include OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS link-state protocol, and routed access. Catalyst 9200 Series switches are powered by Cisco IOS XE.

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

Catalyst 9300 Series switches are fixed, stackable appliances for high-density access switching. Key capabilities provided with various models in the Catalyst 9300 product line include up to 1Tbps stacking performance, stackable high-speed fiber, up to 448 mGig Ethernet ports including 288 ports of 90W UPOE+ with an 8-unit configuration, end-to-end IPsec tunnel with AES-256 with MACsec 256-bit encryption and performance up to 100G, redundant fans and power, plus StackPower cables common across the entire Catalyst 9300 family.

Based on the Cisco IOS XE operating system, appliances in the Catalyst 9300 family offer automated provisioning, API-based configuration, granular visibility for near realtime monitoring, and transparent software updates. Advanced security capabilities include Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA) along with AES-256 MACsec and IPSec encryption, and Cisco Trust Anchor Technologies with Image signing. Cloud cybersecurity is strengthened because Catalyst 9300 Series switches have the ability to host Cisco's Umbrella agent directly. This makes it possible for businesses to implement their DNS filtering policies at a granular user or group level to block BYOD or IoT users from accessing malicious websites.

The entry-level Cisco Catalyst 9300L switch features as much as 320G backplane stacking performance and supports 12 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G ports and 36 10M/100M/1G ports. The 9300L utilizes fixed instead of modular uplink hardware for 4 1G, 4 10G, or 2 40G uplink ports. The Cisco Catalyst 9300 appliance offers 480G of stacking capacity 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 high-end Cisco Catalyst 9300X switch provides up to 1Tbps backplane stacking performance and offers 48 10G ports. The 9300X supports modular uplinks with dual-rate 100G/40G, multirate 25G/10G/1G, or multigigabit. Cisco 90W Universal Power Over Ethernet+ supports dense IoT applications. Hardware is available to support 100G IPsec.

Cisco's Catalyst 9400 Series devices are modular switches powered by Cisco IOS XE and designed for midsize and enterprise campus access networks. Delivering double the performance and over quadruple the chassis bandwidth as the legacy Catalyst 6500 line it is designed to replace, the Catalyst 9400 family ushers switch technology into the current age of networking driven by cybersecurity, mobility, Internet of Things, and cloud.

Catalyst 9400 switches are offered with 4-slot, 7-slot, and 10-slot chassis. Two of the slots on each chassis are reserved for high-availability supervisor cards, leaving 2, 5, or 8 slots open for line cards. Max capacity for each line-card slot is 480 Gbps. Switching performance can achieve 1.44 Tbps and forwarding performance on Supervisor Module is as high as 9 Tbps for the 10-slot chassis. All Catalyst 9400 appliances offer 90W UPOE+ on every port, protected network segmentation with Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) and N+N/N+1 power redundancy for high availability. 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 switch supports 240 ports, and the Catalyst 9400 10-slot supports 384 ports. All Catalyst 9400 appliances can provide 2 non-blocking 40 Gigabit Ethernet Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable uplinks and 8 non-blocking 10 Gigabit SFP+ uplinks.

The Catalyst 9500 product line consists of fixed core and edge services appliances designed for the enterprise campus. Catalyst 9500 switches are powered by the Cisco IOS XE operating system and the series includes the first infrastructure technology to provide switching speeds higher than 25 Tbps.

Catalyst 9500 models provide as high as 6.4 Terabits per second switching capacity with forwarding speed as high as 2 Bpps. Catalyst 9500 appliances can provide up to 32 nonblocking 100 Gigabit QSFP28 optical ports, 32 nonblocking 40G QSFP+ ports, 48 nonblocking 25 Gigabit SFP28 ports, or 48 nonblocking 10 Gigabit SFP+ ports. You can configure MEC multipathing across Cisco StackWise-Virtual members for high availability.

Catalyst 9500X appliances can provide up to 25.6 Tbps switching capacity with up to 2 Bpps forwarding speed. Catalyst 9500X devices deliver up to 28 nonblocking 40/100 Gigabit QSFP28 ports or 8 nonblocking 40/100/200/400 Gigabit QSFP-DD ports. The 9500X line also includes chip-level capability for line-rate 256-bit 802.1AE Media Access Control Security (MACsec) and WAN-MACsec1 data encryption.

Catalyst 9600 Series switches are modular core and distribution appliances intended for the enterprise campus. The 6-slot 9600 Series chassis with a Catalyst 9600X Series Supervisor delivers switching performance as high as 25.6 Terabits per second and can support up to 256 nonblocking 10/25/50 G Ethernet ports, 96 nonblocking 40/100G Gigabit ports, or 8 nonblocking 200/400 G QSFP-Double Density ports. The Catalyst 9600 also provides dual-rate 40G/100G and 10G/25G optics. Two chassis slots are reserved for redundant supervisors. You can mix and match a variety of line cards for core and aggregation deployment scenarios. The chassis is equipped with a passive backplane, making it possible to change out fan tray, power supplies, and line cards without disruption. End-of-Life Catalyst Products Supported by Progent
Progent's Cisco certified consultants have broad experience providing online and onsite support services for older Catalyst switches which have reached End of Life or End of Support. These legacy Catalyst switches usually cost more to manage and support than current products, deliver less capacity and functionality, and for some cases can expose businesses to compliance and liability risks. Progent can help your business to manage and troubleshoot these legacy switches and can also help you to plan and carry out non-disruptive upgrades to newer models within the Catalyst family or to devices from Cisco's Nexus portfolio of network switches which build upon Catalyst design experience.

Catalyst Express 500 and 520 Series Switches
The Catalyst Express 500 and 520 line of managed Ethernet switches are intended for companies with as many as 250 workers and deliver the reliability, security, scalability, and features small companies need at an affordable cost. Power over Ethernet support makes it simple to install network appliances such as wireless access points and closed-circuit TV cameras.

Models of the Cisco Catalyst Express 500 switches offer up to 24 10/100/1000BASE-T ports plus the option of backup power with auto fail-over for additional dependability. Interoperation with Cisco access points allows businesses to build a wireless LAN environment quickly and effectively. The Catalyst Express 500 platform provides solid security against malicious attacks thanks to Cisco's Self-Defending Network strategy and Cisco Clean Access agents. Cisco Catalyst 2940 Switch
Cisco Catalyst 2900 Series non-modular, managed 10/100 Ethernet switches provide basic workgroup networking for small to midsize organizations. These wire-rate desktop appliances offer IOS Software features for simple mixed-media traffic support at the network edge. The Cisco Catalyst 2940 family of switches are small, stackable devices with 8 Fast Ethernet ports and one integrated Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet uplink. They can be installed outside the wiring cabinet in cramped office spaces like on or under a worker's desk or in a classroom.

Catalyst 2960-S Series Switch
The Cisco Catalyst 2960-S Series are fixed switches intended for small businesses and branch offices. Current models offer either 24 or 48 1Gb Ethernet ports, four 1GE or two 10-Gigabit uplink connections, and provide switching capacity as high as 176 Gbps. Cisco's FlexStack feature permits up to four 2960-S switches to be combined in a stack to perform like a single switching unit that offers 40 Gbps of stacking performance and that cuts operational expense because of single-switch setup. Cisco's IPv6 FHS capability guards networks against IPv6 address theft and malicious attacks.

Cisco Catalyst 3560 Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 3560 family is a line of fixed-configuration switches that includes IEEE 802.3af and Cisco PoE capability in 10/100 Ethernet and 10/100/1000 Ethernet implementations. The Catalyst 3560 switch is a proven Layer 2 switch for midsize business network access or satellite-offices, offering both Gigabit and Power over Ethernet (PoE) options for high productivity while facilitating the installation of key technology such a Voice over IP, wireless connectivity, video surveillance, and building management systems. Customers can activate network-wide smart services including QoS, rate limiting, ACLs, multicast administration, and high-performance IP routing while maintaining the simplicity of traditional LAN switching.

The Catalyst 3560 Series switch is equipped with a robust set of capabilities that permit network expandability and enhanced availability through IP routing plus a complete complement of STP enhancements aimed to increase throughput in an access Layer network. Improvements to the conventional Spanning Tree Protocol, including Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus, and Uplink Fast, as well as enhancements like Flex Links, contribute to network uptime. Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus allows for Layer 2 traffic sharing on redundant links to efficiently use the additional bandwidth inherent in a redundant architecture.

Important protocols including Open Shortest Path First, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol, BGP, and static routing improve system capacity; Protocol Independent Multicast improves the efficiency of system resource use; and Virtual Route Forwarding Lite protects network traffic.

Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series Switches
For mid-size businesses and enterprise branch offices, Cisco's Catalyst 3750 Series simplifies integration of unified technologies and accommodates evolving competitive needs by providing configuration flexibility, ability to manage unified network patterns, and automatic set up of intelligent network services. Also, Cisco's Catalyst 3750 switch is designed for high-density 1000 Ethernet deployments and includes a diverse range of switches that meet the connectivity, aggregation, and backbone-interface requirements of small or mid-size systems.

The Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series switch includes either the IP Base image or the Services image. The IP Base image features include industry-leading QoS, rate-limiting, access control lists (ACLs), and basic static and RIP routing support. The IP Services image offers a broader set of enterprise-level functions, including advanced built-in IP unicast and multicast routing.

Cisco StackWise technology is an architecture designed for Gigabit Ethernet. Cisco StackWise is intended to respond to additions, deletions, and redeployments while maintaining predictable performance. StackWise technology combines up to 9 individual switches into one logical unit, utilizing custom stack-interface cables and software. Each of the switches can be any mix of the Catalyst 3750 Series switches and the Cisco Catalyst 3750-E switches. The stack operates as an individual switching unit that is directed by a control switch, chosen from among the stack of switches. The master switch intelligently creates and keeps current all the switching and user-selected routing databases. A deployed stack can accept new devices or delete old switches with no service interruption.

Catalyst 2960 Series Switches and 3560-CX Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 2960-CX is a fixed-port switch that is compact, fanless, low power, and allows flexible mounting alternatives. The Catalyst 2960-CX 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 is a fixed-port managed switch housed in a compact, quiet and low-power enclosure that can be mounted virtually anywhere outside a wiring closet. Versions are available with 8 or 12 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports or with six 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports plus two multigigabit ports. Two or four uplink ports are offered, and Power over Ethernet is also an option.

Cisco's Catalyst 2960-L family consists of entry-level fixed-port managed switches intended for small offices, retail areas, and other places where space is at a premium. Catalyst 2900-L low-profile appliances include 8 to 48 GE ports and 2 or 4 Small Form-Factor Pluggable uplink ports. Power over Ethernet support saves space and fan-free design for most models eliminates noise. RJ-45 connectors accommodate 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-T SFP-based ports.

Cisco Catalyst 2960-X and Catalyst 2960-XR Series switches enhance the 2690-S line by delivering switching throughput of up to 216 Gbps and supporting Cisco's FlexStack-Plus Stacking via a hot-swappable plug-in that allows 8 switches in a stack with 80 Gbps of stacking performance. Catalyst 2900 Series switches also support NetFlow-Lite for flow-based traffic monitoring. Cisco's Catalyst 2960-XR switch is capable of Layer 3 dynamic routing, providing the simplicity of having a single switch for Layer 2 and Layer 3 routing.

Cisco Catalyst 3650 and 3850 Switches
Catalyst 3650 and Catalyst 3850 series switches are fixed, stackable access switches based on Cisco's IOS XE OS and incorporating comprehensive wireless network controller capability that lets you converge wired and wireless networks on a single platform managed by a single operating system. Cisco has models with either 24 or 48 1Gb Ethernet ports with Power over Ethernet plus (PoE+), four 1-Gigabit or four 10-GB Ethernet uplinks, and support for up to 9 Catalyst switches per FlexStack stack. All versions provide expandable QoS, stateful failover for maximum uptime, support in software for IPv4/IPv6 routing, multicast, and advanced security features.

Since wireless traffic is present at the Catalyst 3000 family switch, network managers can spot and prioritize wireless traffic using Cisco's Flexible NetFlow solution and sophisticated Quality of Service features for an improved user environment and quicker problem mediation. Fast Ethernet switching can handle the high-throughput called for by the new 802.11ac Wave 2 Wi-Fi standard using currently in-place cabling infrastructure. (For information about Progent's support for Cisco's 802.11ac Aironet Wi-Fi products, and Cisco's Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, visit Planning and Deployment Support for Cisco Wireless Technology.)

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

Catalyst 4500-E and Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches
Catalyst 4500-E and and Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series switches are designed for campus and distribution environments where physical space for infrastructure equipment is at a premium. Powered by Cisco's IOS XE software, the Catalyst 4500-E and Catalyst 4500-X families facilitate network virtualization by supporting Cisco's Easy Virtual Network (EVN) and VSS solutions. Network virtualization allows you to segment a hardware network into multiple virtual networks (VNs) whose data and control planes are logically distinct. This makes possible the high resource utilization, protection, recoverability, and ease of management needed for Cloud environments or other scenarios where a common infrastructure must be shared by software and services that need to operate in complete privacy from one another. Easy Virtual Network simplifies the process of deploying virtual networks and scales to 32 VNs per switch. Easy Virtual Network incorporates the capabilities of Multi-virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) and includes new technologies such as VNET Tags and a simple way for duplicating replicating routes between virtual networks. VSS makes it easy to configure Catalyst 4500-E and 4500-X Series switches to create non-stop virtual networks with optimized load balancing.

Catalyst 4500-E Series Switches
Cisco's Supervisor Engine for for the Catalyst 4500-E modular switch includes an integrated wireless network controller that supports Cisco's Unified Access solution for wired/wireless convergence. this is the first Catalyst supervisor to allow wired as well as wireless services on a single switch powered by Cisco's IOS XE software. Technologies included are Cisco's FNF technology for capacity planning encompassing wired and wireless networks, Cisco TrustSec/SGT2 wired/wireless data security, consistent QoS for wired and Wi-Fi clients, and the expansion of Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover to include wireless data traffic for enterprise-class high availability.

Available in chassis with from three to 10 slots, Catalyst 4500-E switches can support as many as 384 10/100/1000 Ethernet access ports, up to 192 1GE fiber fiber connections, 96 10-Gigabit Ethernet fiber ports, and eight 10GE uplinks. The Catalyst 4500-E Supervisor Engine 8-E delivers as much as 928 Gbps of wired throughput per system and 20 Gbps of wireless termination capacity. 50 Wi-Fi access points and 2000 wireless users can be handled on each chassis, and up to 250 wireless access points and 4000 wireless clients can be managed in a multi-switch deployment without requiring a standalone wireless network controller.

Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 4500-X Series switches are fixed 10GE aggregation switches that can deliver up to 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 additional 10GE ports on the optional expansion module for a maximum of 40 10GE connections. Eight 10-Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports are also available with another module. In addition to offering zero-downtime performance and easy management, Cisco's VSS solution on Catalyst 4500-X switches provides higher system performance of as much as 1.6 Tbps by activating all possible capacity between VSS-linked Catalyst 4500-X switches. Additional features include Cisco's Flexible NetFlow solution for traffic analysis, Cisco TrustSec protection, and fast, hardware-based IPv6 forwarding.

Catalyst 6500 and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches
Cisco Catalyst 6500 and Catalyst 6800 Series switches are enterprise campus core switches that share the proven technology of the Cisco Catalyst 6500 line of switches, which were introduced more than a decade ago and have been steadily enhanced since then. Cisco Catalyst 6500 and Catalyst 6800 switches provide the same features and operational consistency, and the modular Catalyst 6807-XL supports the Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 2T and its portfolio of line cards and modules. This mutual compatibility and commitment to continual enhancement preserves your IT expenditures and permits you to update your network with minimal service interruption or management team re-education.

Shared features of Cisco Catalyst 6500 and Catalyst 6800 modular switches equipped with Cisco's Supervisor Engine 2T include Cisco's ISE technology for convenient, centralized management to put in place consistent policy throughout a distributed network, VSS Quad Sup SSO (VS4O) capability for 99.999% availability via multi-level failover, and the Cisco Campus Locator/ID Separation Protocol to facilitate client roaming and mobility and to streamline network virtualization and migration to IPv6. Other virtual networking tools to partition specific client groups and support the special security and Quality of Service policy needs of every group include Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN, complete Multiprotocol Label Switching, Easy Virtual Network, VPN Routing and Forwarding-aware applications for Network Address Translation NetFlow, IPv6 over IPv4 GRE Tunnels, and Layer 2 extensions with virtual private LAN services (VPLS). For unified wired/wireless environments, the WiSM2 for Catalyst 6500 Series and Catalyst 6800 modular switches includes support for 1000 wireless APs and 15,000 wireless clients.

Cisco Catalyst 6500-E Switches
The Cisco Catalyst 6500-E line of modular switches are intended for aggregation and campus backbone networks that require maximum uptime and high concentrations of 1 Gigabit Ethernet, 1 Gigabit Ethernet fiber, or 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet access ports. Available versions have three to 13 expansion slots and accept a broad selection of modules. Integrated service modules support wireless, network monitoring, and security. Just E-Series versions of Cisco's extensive line of 6500 switches are compatible with the Supervisor Engine 2T.

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

The high-end Catalyst 6513-E has a 19 rack unit, 13-slot form factor and can deliver up to 180 Gbps of throughput on each slot, with a system bandwidth as high as 4 Tbps. A VSS configuration can deliver up to 8 Tbps of switching throughout. The Catalyst 6513-E switch can support a maximum of 529 10/100/1000 Ethernet access ports, up to 534 Gigabit Ethernet fiber connections, 180 10-Gigabit Ethernet connections, and 44 40-Gigabit Ethernet connections.

Catalyst 6800 Switches
Catalyst 6800 Series switches are programmable core platforms designed to deliver optimal 10/40/100 GE services. The Cisco Catalyst 6880-X switch is a fixed, small form factor platform for high-density Ethernet intended for small or midsize enterprise campus cores. The Catalyst 6880-X supports up to 2 Tbps switching performance and has four slots for plug-in port cards. The top port concentration on one chassis is 80 1 Gigabit Ethernet connections or 10GE access ports or up to 20 40GE ports. Configured with Cisco's Virtual Switching System, these switches can deliver 4 Tbps throughput and support as many as 158 10/100/1000 Ethernet access ports or 10-Gigabit Ethernet access ports or up to 20 40-Gigabit Ethernet access ports.

The modular Cisco Catalyst 6807-XL switch comes in a 10 RU form factor chassis that has 7 slots and accepts existing Supervisor Engine 2T line cards and modules. (Two of the slots are for the Supervisor Engine and the other five are for modules.) The Cisco Catalyst 6807-XL offers as much as 880 Gbps of switching performance on each slot and up to 11.4 Tbps of full-duplex switching performance while providing up to 240 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports or 1GE fiber ports, 80 10GE connections or 20 40GE ports. an 6807-XL system with Cisco's Virtual Switching System can handle 22.8 Tbps of switching performance, 480 10/100/1000 Ethernet connections or Gigabit Ethernet fiber connections, up to 160 10GE ports or 40 40-Gigabit Ethernet connections. Ways That Progent Can Assist You with Cisco Catalyst Switches
Progent can provide the remote or on-premises support services of CCIE-certified consultants who have broad backgrounds providing Catalyst switch technology support for small and medium sized businesses, branch offices, enterprises, data centers, Cloud networks, and SPs. Progent's areas of expertise include Catalyst and Nexus families of smart switches and with Cisco's IOS, IOS-XR and NX-OS control software. Consulting and support services offered by Progent for Cisco Catalyst switches include proof-of-concept testing and validation, network analysis, topology design, upgrades and project management, network virtualization, wired/wireless unification, network management, capacity planning, problem mitigation, disaster recovery and business continuity preparedness, and network security and compliance testing and remediation.

Progent's Cisco-certified consultants have broad knowledge of industry standards as well as with proprietary Cisco protocols related to switching and routing such as BGP, MPLS traffic engineering, Protocol Independent Multicast, VPNs, STP, virtual LANs, FabricPath, VPC, Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP), Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Virtual Switching System (VSS), and LISP. Progent's network specialists also have experience with important networking technologies including TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Routing Information Protocol, and Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP). Progent's CISSP-ISSAP certified network security and compliance consultants can show you how to create a comprehensive security plan and implement Cisco Catalyst switches so they offer maximum support for your security policies.

In case you require the highest available density or sub-microsecond latency switches for a world-class data center, Progent can assist you to evaluate, plan, and manage a migration to Nexus family of switches. For information about Progent's support capabilities for Nexus Series switches, see Nexus Switch consulting and support offered by Progent. Progent can also help you to integrate Catalyst data center switches with Cisco Meraki distribution switches. (See Cisco Meraki switch integration consultants.) For more details about Progent's professional assistance for Cisco networking products, choose a topic:

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