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Cisco's Catalyst family of modular and fixed switches offers performance and control at the access, distribution, and core areas of converged IP voice, HD video, and high bandwidth data networks for businesses that range from small businesses and branches to global enterprises and SPs. Progent's Cisco-certified consultants can provide remote and onsite expertise with Catalyst switches to help you to plan a cost-effective network topology that meets your specific business needs, configure pilot testing, install Catalyst switches, establish and verify a sensible security strategy, streamline system management and performance tracking, deliver troubleshooting and maintenance services, maximize switch capacity, and configure Catalyst's high-availability (HA) technology for near-zero downtime.

Progent can assist you to manage and repair your legacy Catalyst switches or upgrade smoothly to current versions of Catalyst switches following leading practices to ensure that you realize the maximum business value from your investment in your network.

The demand for intelligent, fast switching is driven by a confluence of relatively recent networking trends whose overall impact is a virtual tsunami of data traffic:

• Cloud and IoT networking and a consequent reliance on massive network virtualization
• The proliferation of BYOD computing
• Bandwidth-intensive rich media applications
• Social media for business
• The rise of Big Data in enterprise data analytics
• Increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks such as ransomware

Cisco's current portfolio of Catalyst switches are best suited for the distribution/core levels of enterprise campus environments where office employees must be provided for by offering unvarying high throughput, strict client access management, careful segmentation, application awareness, and wired and wireless convergence. Catalyst switches address the need for speed and control with features such as high-density 10G/40G/100G services, switching performance over 25T for each appliance, an extensive suite of technologies including Easy Virtual Network to facilitate the deployment of virtual networks, Virtual Switching System technology for stateful interchassis failover with subsecond backup switch restoration and 99.999% availability, IPv6 capability, Application Visibility and Control (AVC) to optimize system resource usage, and sophisticated Quality of Service capabilities for critical data control.

Cisco Catalyst switches enable businesses of all sizes to benefit from incorporating smart switching and routing services into their network architecture, creating an ecosystem that can deal with real-time requirements, scale to support future capacity demands, protect sensitive data, and differentiate and control processes to enhance network operations.

Catalyst 1000 Series Fixed Ethernet Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 1000 Series Layer 2 network access switches are compact, fixed-configuration switches targeted for small businesses and branch offices with as many as 250 workers and with minimal internal IT support. The Catalyst 1000 line includes fanless models for quiet operation outside a wiring closet in an office environment. Mounting options include desktop, wall or shelf mount, standard rack mount, and DIN rail mount. Designed as a simple replacement for Catalyst 2960-L/2960-Plus deployments, Cisco's Catalyst 1000 Series includes models with 8 to 48G Ethernet ports or 24 to 48 Fast Ethernet 10/100M ports.

Catalyst 1000 set up and administration are easy using a web interface or command-line interface, cybersecurity is enterprise-class, and PoE+ ports with a dynamically allocated power budget of 740W allows a broad range of IoT deployments. As many as eight Catalyst 1000 Gigabit Ethernet model switches can be managed at once with single IP. All Catalyst Series 1000 units are line-rate devices, and all are based on Cisco's venerable IOS operating system software. Quality-of-Service (QoS) capabilities include egress queues for every port plus priority queuing to allow wire-speed throughput for time-critical traffic. Catalyst 1000 switches also feature SRR scheduling and WTD congestion avoidance.

Catalyst 9000 Series Fixed and Modular Managed Switches
The Catalyst 9000 line of managed switches includes modular and fixed switches and can support all deployment scenarios including access, distribution, and core switching. The Cisco Catalyst 9000 line includes devices with the appropriate price/performance to connect workers and things in environments ranging from small businesses and branch offices to global enterprises. Catalyst 9000 products can be configured to support any combination of onsite deployments, private/public clouds, and hybrid networks. Unified network management tools and advanced security features reduce cost of ownership by saving time and safeguarding critical IT assets. Cisco's 9000X series of switches provide converged switching/routing, delivering the first combination of 400G QSFP-DD ports along with full multigigabit and Power-over-Ethernet ports.

With twice the backplane stacking bandwidth for 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 infrastructure improvement for small branch offices and midsize campus environments. The 9200 portfolio includes switches that support 24 or 48 ports with full Power over Ethernet; 80-160 Gbps backplane stacking bandwidth; streaming telemetry; and Layer 3 features that include OSPF Interior Gateway Protocol, EIGRP, IS-IS, and routed access. Catalyst 9200 Series switches are powered by Cisco IOS XE.

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

Catalyst 9300 Series switches are fixed, stackable appliances for ultra-high-density access switching. Advanced features provided with models in the Catalyst 9300 family include up to 1Tbps stacking bandwidth, stackable high-speed fiber, up to 448 mGig ports and 288 ports of 90W UPOE+ with an 8-device stack, end-to-end IPsec with AES-256 with MACsec 256-bit encryption and performance as high as 100G, high-availability redundant fans and power, plus data stack and StackPower cables compatible throughout the complete Catalyst 9300 family.

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

The entry-level Cisco Catalyst 9300L switch delivers as much as 320G stacking bandwidth and supports 12 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G ports and 36 10M/100M/1G ports. The 9300L utilizes fixed rather than modular uplink components for 4 1G, 4 10G, or 2 40G uplink ports. The Cisco Catalyst 9300 switch features 480G of stacking bandwidth and supports 48 100M/1G/2.5G/5Gbps Ethernet ports, 24 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10Gbps Ethernet ports, or 48 1G SFP ports. Modular uplink performance available are 1G, 10G, 25G, or 40G. The top-of-the-line Cisco Catalyst 9300X appliance delivers 1T backplane stacking performance and supports 48 10G Ethernet ports. The 9300X accepts uplink modules with dual-rate 100G/40G, multirate 25G/10G/1G, or mGig. Cisco 90W Universal Power Over Ethernet+ (UPOE+) supports IoT-intensive environments such as smart buildings. Cisco offers hardware to support 100G IPsec.

Cisco's Catalyst 9400 Series appliances are modular switches powered by Cisco IOS XE and intended for midsize and large campus access deployments. Offering twice the throughput and over four times the chassis bandwidth as the legacy Catalyst 6500 it is built to replace, Cisco's Catalyst 9400 portfolio brings switch capability into the current age of networking driven by security, mobility, Internet of Things, and cloud.

Catalyst 9400 appliances are available 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 for each line-card slot is 480G. Switching performance can reach 1.44 Tbps and forwarding performance on Supervisor Module is as high as 9 Tbps with the 10-slot chassis. All Catalyst 9400 models offer 90W UPOE+ on every access port, secure network segmentation with Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) and N+N/N+1 power redundancy for high resilience. The Catalyst 9400 4-slot switch supports 96 10/100/1000 ports, 5G/10G multigigabit ports, or 10G SFP+ ports. The Catalyst 9400 7-slot supports 240 ports, and the Catalyst 9400 10-slot supports 384 ports. All Catalyst 9400 switches can support 2 non-blocking 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP uplinks and 8 non-blocking 10 Gigabit SFP+ uplinks.

Cisco's Catalyst 9500 family includes fixed core and edge services appliances intended for the enterprise campus. Catalyst 9500 models are powered by the Cisco IOS XE operating system and the the family includes the first network technology to provide switching speeds above 25 Tbps.

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

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

Catalyst 9600 Series switches are modular core and distribution appliances for the enterprise campus. The 6-slot 9600 Series chassis using a Catalyst 9600X Series Supervisor delivers switching capacity as high as 25.6 Terabits per second and can contain up to 256 nonblocking 10/25/50 G ports, 96 nonblocking 40/100G G ports, or 8 nonblocking 200/400 Gigabit QSFP-DD ports. The Catalyst 9600 also supports dual-rate 40G/100G and 10G/25G optics. Two chassis slots are dedicated for redundant supervisors. You can mix and match a selection of line cards for core and aggregation environments. The Catalyst 9600 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 Models Supported by Progent
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified network consultants have broad experience providing online and on-premises support expertise for legacy Catalyst switches which have reached End of Life. These outdated switches often are more expensive to operate and support than current models, deliver lower performance and fewer features, and in many cases can expose businesses to regulatory and liability issues. Progent's consultants are available to assist your business to maintain and repair these legacy switches and can in addition help you to plan and execute non-disruptive upgrades to newer products within the Catalyst family or to solutions from Cisco's Nexus line of switches which take advantage of Catalyst design experience.

Catalyst Express 500 and 520 Family
The Catalyst Express 500 and 520 line of managed Ethernet switches are designed for organizations with as many as 250 workers and deliver the dependability, protection, expandability, and features small and mid-sized companies require at an economical price. PoE capability makes it easy to install network appliances like VoIP phones and closed-circuit TV cameras.

Versions of the Cisco Catalyst Express 500 and 520 managed switches offer up to 24 10/100/1000BT Ethernet ports as well as optional redundant power with auto fail-over for extra dependability. Integration with Cisco wireless access points allows organizations to build a wireless LAN network rapidly and easily. The Catalyst Express 500 family offers solid security against malicious attacks With the Cisco Self-Defending Network strategy and Cisco Clean Access solutions. Cisco Catalyst 2940 Switch
Catalyst 2900 fixed-configuration, managed 10/100 Ethernet switches offer basic small-group networking for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). These wire-rate desktop appliances offer IOS Software features for basic data, video, and voice support at the network edge. The Cisco Catalyst 2940 line of managed switches are compact, entry-level devices with eight Ethernet connections and one built-in Fast or Gbit Ethernet uplink. They can be installed outside the wiring cabinet in cramped areas like on or under a worker's desk or in a conference room.

Cisco Catalyst 2960-S Series Switch
The Catalyst 2960-S Series are fixed-configuration switches intended for small companies and branches. Available models incorporate either 24 or 48 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, four 1-Gigabit or two 10-GB Ethernet uplink ports, and deliver switching capacity as high as 176 Gbps. Cisco's FlexStack feature allows as many as four Catalyst 2960-S chassis to be combined in a stack to act as one switch that provides 40 Gbps of stacking performance and that cuts administrative costs with one-switch configuration. IPv6 FHS technology guards against address interception and other attacks.

Cisco Catalyst 3560 Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 3560 Series is a selection of non-modular switches that features IEEE 802.3af and Power over Ethernet functionality in 10/100 Ethernet and 10/100/1000 Ethernet configurations. Cisco's Catalyst 3560 switch is an ideal access-layer switch for midsize business LAN connectivity or satellite-office environments, combining both Gigabit and PoE options for high productivity while facilitating the deployment of key technology such a Voice over IP, Wi-Fi, video monitoring, and remote video kiosks. IT managers can deploy comprehensive smart services such as quality of service, rate limiting, access control lists, multicast administration, and broadband IP routing with the simplicity of traditional network switching.

The Catalyst 3560 family switch offers a powerful array of capabilities that allow for network scalability and higher resilience through IP routing as well as a complete suite of Spanning Tree Protocol improvements designed to increase throughput in an access Layer network. Enhancements to the conventional STP Protocol, such as Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus, and Uplink Fast, combined with enhancements such as Flex Links, improve network efficiency. Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus allows for Data Link Layer load balancing on redundant links to take advantage of the extra capacity associated with a redundant design.

Efficient routing protocols such as OPSF, EIGRP, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), static routing, and Policy Based Routing increase network capacity; Protocol Independent Multicast increases resource utilization; and Virtual Route Forwarding Lite (VRFLite) protects network traffic.

Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series Switches
For midsized organizations and enterprise branch offices, Cisco's Catalyst 3750 Series switch eases deployment of unified applications and adapts to changing business needs by providing configuration versatility, ability to manage converged network traffic, and automatic set up of intelligent network services. In addition, Cisco's Catalyst 3750 Series is engineered for high-volume 1000 Ethernet deployments and incorporates a diverse selection of switches that address the connectivity, aggregation, and backbone-connectivity requirements of small or midsized deployments.

The Cisco Catalyst 3750 switch includes either the IP Base image or the IP Services image. The IP Base image features include industry-leading quality of service, rate-limiting, access control lists (ACLs), and simple static and RIP routing support. The IP Services image provides a broader set of enterprise-level features, such as sophisticated hardware-based IP unicast and multicast routing.

Cisco StackWise technology is a mechanism designed for Gigabit interfaces. StackWise is designed to respond to installs, deletions, and redeployments while providing dependable performance. StackWise unites up to nine individual switches into a single logical unit, using special stack-interconnect cables and software. Each of the switches can be any combination of the Catalyst 3750 Series and the Catalyst 3750-E switches. The stack operates as a single switching appliance that is directed by a control switch, elected from among the stack of switches. The master switch intelligently creates and keeps current all the switching and user-selected routing databases. A working stack can accommodate new devices or remove old devices with no operational discontinuity.

Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series Switches and Catalyst 3560-CX Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 2960-CX is a fixed-port managed switch that is ultra-compact, fanless, low power, and allows a variety of mounting options. The Catalyst 2960-CX incorporates eight 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports and two Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports and optionally provides Power over Ethernet. Cisco's Catalyst 3560-CX is a fixed-port switch packaged in a compact, noiseless and energy-efficient unit that can be mounted virtually anywhere convenient. Models are offered with 8 or 12 1-GE ports or with 6 1-GE ports plus 2 multigigabit ports. Two or four uplinks are offered, and PoE+ power is also an option.

Cisco's Catalyst 2960-L line consists of entry-level fixed-port switches designed for branch offices, retail venues, and other places where space is limited. These low-profile appliances include 8 to 48 GE ports and either 2 or 4 SFP uplink ports. PoE support reduces clutter and fan-free design for the 8- versions does away with noise. RJ-45 interfaces handle 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-T SFP-ports.

Cisco Catalyst 2960-X and 2960-XR switches enhance the 2690-S family of switches by offering switching capacity of up to 216 Gbps and supporting Cisco's FlexStack-Plus Stacking via a hot-swappable plug-in that allows 8 switches in a FlexStack Plus stack with 80 Gbps of stacking performance. Cisco Catalyst 2900 family switches also support NetFlow-Lite for application visibility and control. The Catalyst 2960-XR switch is capable of L3 dynamic routing, providing the convenience of having a single switch for Layer 2 and Layer 3 routing.

Catalyst 3650 and Catalyst 3850 Series Switches
Cisco Catalyst 3650 and Catalyst 3850 series switches are fixed-configuration, stackable network access devices based on Cisco's IOS XE operating system and incorporating full wireless network controller functionality that allows you to control wired and wireless infrastructure on a one 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 1GE or four 10-Gigabit uplink ports, and support for up to 9 Catalyst switches per stack. All versions provide expandable QoS, stateful switchover for high uptime, support in software for IPv4 and IPv6 routing, multicast routing, and advanced security.

Because wireless traffic is present at the Catalyst 3000 Series switch, network managers can spot and assign priorities to wireless data with Cisco's Flexible NetFlow technology and advanced Quality of Service capabilities for an improved wireless user environment and faster problem isolation. Fast Ethernet switching supports the high-throughput called for by the latest 802.11ac Wave 2 wireless specification on currently in-place cabling solutions. (To find out about Progent's consulting services for Cisco's 802.11ac Aironet Wi-Fi products, and Cisco's Meraki cloud-managed APs, refer to Configuration and Troubleshooting Consulting Services for Cisco Wireless Products.)

The Catalyst 3650 Series switch delivers stacking bandwidth of 160 Gbps and supports up to 25 Wi-Fi APs and 1000 Wi-Fi users per switch. The Cisco Catalyst 3850 switch offers stacking bandwidth as high as 480 Gbps and can control as many as 50 Wi-Fi access points and 2000 wireless users per switch or stack. Catalyst 3850 SFP Fiber Switches incorporate 12 or 24 1G fiber connections at line rate on every port, providing long distance connectivity, advanced security, and a consistent wired and wireless user experience.

Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Series and Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 4500-E Series and and Catalyst 4500-X Series switches are designed for campus and distribution deployments where physical space for infrastructure equipment is at a premium. Powered by Cisco's IOS XE operating system, the Catalyst 4500-E and 4500-X product lines simplify virtualization thanks to Cisco's Easy Virtual Network (EVN) and Virtual Switching System (VSS) solutions. Network virtualization allows you to divide a hardware network into multiple virtual networks whose data planes and control planes are logically distinct. This makes possible the high resource utilization, security and compliance, recoverability, and ease of management needed for Cloud environments or other scenarios where a single infrastructure must be shared by applications and services that must run in total privacy from one another. EVN speeds up the process of deploying virtual networks and can be expanded to 32 VNs per switch. Easy Virtual Network utilizes the capabilities of Multi-VRF and includes new technologies such as VNET Trunks and a simple technique for duplicating replicating routes between VNs. Virtual Switching System technology makes it easy to set up Catalyst 4500-E and 4500-X Series platforms to produce zero-downtime VNs with optimized load balancing.

Catalyst 4500-E Switches
The Supervisor Engine for for the Catalyst 4500-E modular switch includes an integrated wireless controller that supports Cisco's Unified Access solution for wired/wireless convergence. The Supervisor Engine 8-E is the initial Cisco Catalyst supervisor to support wired as well as wireless services on a single switch powered by IOS XE software. Features included are Cisco's FNF solution for application visibility encompassing both wired and Wi-Fi networks, Cisco TrustSec/SGT2 wired/wireless data security, consistent Quality of Service for wired and Wi-Fi clients, and the expansion of Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover to include wireless data traffic for enterprise-quality high availability.

Available in chassis with from three to 10 slots, Cisco Catalyst 4500-E switches with Supervisor 8-E can support as many as 384 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports, 193 1GE fiber fiber ports, 96 10GE fiber connections, and eight 10GE uplink ports. The Catalyst 4500-E Supervisor Engine 8-E delivers as much as 928 Gbps of wired capacity per system and as much as 20 Gbps of wireless termination performance. 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 users are managed in a two-switch installation without requiring a standalone wireless network controller.

Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Switches
Catalyst 4500-X Series switches are fixed-configuration 10-Gigabit Ethernet aggregation platforms that can deliver 800 Gbps of backplane switching performance per device. The Catalyst 4500-X supports as many as 32 10GE connections on the baseboard and eight more 10GE ports on the optional expansion module for a total of up to 40 non-blocking 10GE connections. Eight 10GE uplinks are available with a separate module. In addition to providing non-stop operation and easy manageability, Cisco's VSS solution on Catalyst 4500-X Series switches provides higher system throughput of up to 1.6 Tbps by enabling all possible bandwidth between VSS-linked Catalyst 4500-X switches. Additional features include Cisco's FNF solution for traffic analysis, TrustSec protection, and wire-rate IPv6 forwarding.

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series and Catalyst 6800 Series Switches
Catalyst 6500 and Cisco Catalyst 6800 switches are enterprise campus core platforms that incorporate the proven technology of the Catalyst 6500 line of switches, which were introduced over a dozen years ago and which have been steadily enhanced ever since. Cisco Catalyst 6500 and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series switches provide identical features and operational consistency, and the modular Catalyst 6807-XL switch accepts the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 2T and its portfolio of line cards and modules. This backwards compatibility and program of ongoing improvement preserves your IT expenditures and permits you to update your network backbone with little downtime or management team retraining.

Shared attributes of Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco Catalyst 6800 modular switches that have Cisco's Supervisor Engine 2T include Cisco's Identity Services Engine (ISE) for convenient, centralized management to put in place unvarying policy throughout a distributed network, VSS Quad Sup SSO (VS4O) capability for maximum uptime through multi-level switchover, and Cisco's LISP protocol to support roaming and mobility and to streamline network virtualization and transition to IPv6. Other virtualization tools to segment specific user groups and support the special security/compliance and Quality of Service policy requirements of each group include L2/L3 VPN, full MPLS, EVN, VRF-aware applications for Network Address Translation NetFlow, IPv6 over IPv4 GRE Tunnels, and L2 geographic extensions with virtual private LAN services. For unified wired and wireless environments, the Wireless Services Module 2 (WiSM2) controller Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series modular switches includes support for up to 1000 wireless access points and 15,000 wireless clients.

Catalyst 6500-E Series Switches
The Cisco Catalyst 6500-E Series of modular switches are intended for aggregation and enterprise backbone networks that need maximum uptime and high concentrations of 1 Gigabit Ethernet, 1 Gigabit Ethernet fiber, or 10 and 40 GE access ports. Models include three to 13 expansion slots and accept a wide selection of modules. Integrated service modules support wireless management, network monitoring, and data protection. Just E-Series versions of Cisco's broad family of 6500 switches work with Cisco's Supervisor Engine 2T.

The Cisco Catalyst 6503-E has a 4 rack unit form factor, holds 3 slots, and offers 180 Gbps of switching bandwidth on each slot. The Cisco Catalyst 6503-E switch supports 97 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, up to 99 1GE fiber ports, 34 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports, and 8 40GE access ports.

The high-end Catalyst 6513-E has a 19RU, 13-slot chassis and can deliver 180 Gbps of performance on each slot, with a total system capacity as high as 4 Tbps. A VSS configured system can handle 8 Tbps of switching capacity. The Cisco Catalyst 6513-E Series switch can support up to 529 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, up to 534 Gigabit Ethernet fiber ports, 180 10-Gigabit Ethernet connections, and up to 44 40GE connections.

Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches
Catalyst 6800 Series switches are programmable backbone switches designed to provide best-of-breed 10/40/100 GE support. 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 switch delivers up to 2 Tbps switching bandwidth and features four slots for port cards. The maximum port concentration on one chassis is 80 10/100/1000 Ethernet access ports or 10GE connections or as many as 20 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports. With VSS, a two-chassis system can provide 4 Tbps capacity and support up to 158 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports or 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports or as many as 20 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports.

The modular Catalyst 6807-XL switch comes in a 10 RU form factor that has 7 expansion slots and accepts standard Supervisor Engine 2T line cards and modules. (Two slots are reserved for the Supervisor Engine and the other five are for modules.) The Cisco Catalyst 6807-XL switch can deliver up to 880 Gbps of switching performance per slot and 11.4 Tbps of switching bandwidth while supporting up to 240 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports or 1GE fiber connections, 80 10GE ports or 20 40GE ports. an 6807-XL system configured with Cisco's Virtual Switching System can handle 22.8 Tbps of switching performance, 480 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports or Gigabit Ethernet fiber ports, up to 160 10GE access ports or 40 40GE ports. How Progent Can Help Your Business with Cisco Catalyst Series Switches
Progent offers the online or onsite expertise of Cisco CCIE-certified network consultants who have extensive experience providing Catalyst switch support for small and midsize businesses, branches, campuses, data centers, Cloud environments, and service providers. Progent's skills include Cisco's Catalyst and Nexus families of managed switches and with Cisco's IOS, IOS-XR and NX-OS operating systems. Services available from Progent's experts for Catalyst switches include proof-of-concept testing, network analysis and monitoring, network architecture design, upgrades and project management, virtualization, wired and wireless unification, network management, capacity planning, problem mitigation, disaster recovery preparedness, and information security and compliance assessment and remediation.

Progent offers deep expertise with open standards and with proprietary Cisco protocols and technologies related to switching and routing including Border Gateway Protocol, MPLS traffic engineering, Protocol Independent Multicast, VPNs, STP, virtual LANs, FabricPath, Virtual Private Cloud (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 deep knowledge of important networking technologies such as TCP/IP protocols, IPv4, IPv6, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), RIP, and IGMP. Progent's CISSP-ISSAP certified information security and compliance consultants can assist you to develop an enterprise-wide security strategy and implement Cisco Catalyst switches so that they provide optimal support for your network security posture.

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