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The Catalyst family of modular and fixed-configuration switches provides speed and control at the access, distribution, and core levels of converged voice, video, and high bandwidth data networks for organizations that range in size from small businesses and branch offices to global enterprises and service providers. Progent's Cisco-certified consultants can provide remote and onsite expertise with Catalyst switches to assist you to design a cost-effective network topology that addresses your specific business needs, set up pilot testing, install Catalyst switches, implement and verify a sensible security strategy, streamline system management and performance tracking, provide repair and support services, optimize switch capacity, and set up Catalyst's high-availability (HA) technology for non-stop operation.

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

The demand for intelligent, fast switching is the result 0f a combination of relatively new networking patterns whose net impact is a cyber avalanche of data:

• Cloud and Internet of Things computing and an associated demand for intensive virtualization
• The pervasiveness of always-connected mobile devices
• Data guzzling rich media applications
• Social business technologies
• The popularity of Big Data in data analytics
• Increasingly advanced threats like ransomware

Cisco's latest portfolio of Catalyst switches are designed for the distribution and core layers levels of campus deployments where mobile and stationary workers must be supported with dependable high speed, strict access management, tight group isolation, application intelligence, and wired and wireless convergence. Catalyst series switches address the need for performance and control with capabilities such as high-density 10G/40G/100G services, switching capacity over 25T per appliance, a powerful collection of technologies such as EVN to facilitate the creation of VLANs, VSS technology for stateful interchassis failover with subsecond backup switch restoration and "five nines" (99.999%) uptime, IPv4 and IPv6 capability, Application Visibility and Control (AVC) to maximize network utilization, and advanced Quality of Service capabilities for critical data prioritization.

Catalyst switches enable businesses of all sizes to benefit from incorporating intelligent switching and routing features into their network infrastructure, deploying an environment that can meet current requirements, expand to support future capacity demands, guard vital data, and separate and manage processes to enhance network operations.

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

Catalyst 1000 configuration and management are simple using a web interface or command-line interface, cybersecurity is enterprise-grade, and PoE+ ports with a dynamically distributed budget of 740W supports a wide range of Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. Up to eight Catalyst 1000 Gigabit Ethernet model switches can be controlled at once with single IP. All Catalyst 1000 appliances are line-rate devices, and all are based on Cisco's familiar IOS Software. Quality-of-Service capabilities include egress queues for every port as well as priority queuing to allow wire-speed throughput for data, IP voice, and video data. Catalyst Series 1000 switches also support Shaped Round Robin (SRR) scheduling and Weighted Tail Drop (WTD) congestion avoidance.

Catalyst 9000 Series Fixed and Modular Managed Switches
The Catalyst 9000 line of switches includes modular and fixed units and can support all deployment scenarios including access, distribution, and core switching. The Cisco Catalyst 9000 series includes devices with the appropriate value proposition to connect workers and things in scenarios ranging from small businesses and branch offices to major enterprises. Catalyst 9000 products can be set up to implement any combination of onsite deployments, private and public clouds, and hybrid networks. Unified network management tools and cutting-edge cybersecurity features lower cost of ownership by cutting operational overhead and protecting critical IT assets. Cisco's 9000X line of switches provide converged switching and routing, introducing the first combination of 400G optical transceivers along with full mGig and Power-over-Ethernet ports.

With double the stacking bandwidth for about half the price of the end-of-life Cisco Catalyst 2960-X and 2960-XR switches they are intended to replace, Catalyst 9200 Series switches are a natural infrastructure update for small branch offices and midsize campus deployments. The Catalyst 9200 product line includes models that offer 24 or 48 ports with full Power over Ethernet; 80-160 Gbps stacking performance; and Layer 3 features such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing, EIGRP, IS-IS, and routed access. Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series switches run Cisco IOS XE.

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

Catalyst 9300 Series switches are fixed, stackable devices for high-density enterprise access switching. Advanced features provided with models in the Catalyst 9300 product line include 1T backplane stacking performance, stackable SFP fiber, up to 448 multigigabit ports and 288 ports of 90W UPOE+ with an 8-unit configuration, end-to-end IPsec with AES-256 Encryption and speeds as high as 100G, high-availability redundant fans and power supplies, plus data stack and StackPower cables compatible across the complete Catalyst 9300 family.

Based on Cisco IOS XE, devices in the Catalyst 9300 product line offer automated device provisioning, API-based configuration, high-granularity visibility for near realtime monitoring, and seamless software updates and patching. Security features include Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA) as well as AES-256 MACsec and IPSec encryption, and Cisco Trust Anchor Technologies with Image signing. Cloud cybersecurity is enhanced because Catalyst 9300 switches have the ability to host the Cisco Umbrella agent directly. This allows businesses to design their DNS filtering policies at user or group level to prevent BYOD or IoT users from accessing dangerous websites.

The value-priced Cisco Catalyst 9300L switch delivers as much as 320G 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 ports. The Cisco Catalyst 9300 appliance offers 480G of stacking capacity and supports 48 100M/1G/2.5G/5Gbps ports, 24 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10Gbps Ethernet ports, or 48 1G SFP ports. Modular uplink speeds supported are 1G, 10G, 25G, or 40G. The top-of-the-line Cisco Catalyst 9300X switch provides up to 1Tbps backplane stacking bandwidth and offers 48 10G ports. The 9300X supports modular uplinks with dual-rate 100G/40G, multirate 25G/10G/1G, or mGig. Cisco 90W UPOE+ supports dense IoT environments such as smart buildings. Cisco offers hardware to provide 100G IPsec.

Cisco's Catalyst 9400 Series appliances are modular switches powered by Cisco IOS XE and targeted for midsize and enterprise campus access networks. Offering double the performance and over quadruple the chassis bandwidth as the Catalyst 6500 line it is built to replace, the Catalyst 9400 family brings switch capability into the current era of connectivity 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, making 2, 5, or 8 slots open for line cards. Max bandwidth for each line-card slot is 480G. Switching performance can reach 1.44 Terabits per second and forwarding rate on Supervisor Module is as high as 9 Tbps with the 10-slot chassis. All Catalyst 9400 appliances can provide 90W UPOE+ on every access port, secure segmentation with Software-Defined 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 models can support 2 non-blocking 40 Gigabit Ethernet Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable uplinks and up to 8 non-blocking 10G SFP+ uplinks.

The Catalyst 9500 product line includes fixed core and edge services appliances intended for the enterprise campus. Catalyst 9500 switches are based on Cisco IOS XE and the the family includes the first network technology to provide switching speeds higher than 25 Terabits per second.

Catalyst 9500 models deliver up to 6.4 Tbps switching performance with forwarding throughput as high as 2 Bpps. Catalyst 9500 switches can support as many as 32 nonblocking 100 GB QSFP28 optical ports, 32 nonblocking 40G QSFP+ ports, 48 nonblocking 25 Gigabit SFP28 ports, or 48 nonblocking 10 Gigabit SFP+ ports. You can deploy MEC multipathing across Cisco StackWise-Virtual members for high availability.

Catalyst 9500X switches can provide as high as 25.6 Terabits per second switching performance with 2 Billion Packet per Second forwarding capacity. Catalyst 9500X models support 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 hardware capability for line-rate 256-bit 802.1AE MACsec and WAN-MACsec1 encryption.

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 delivers switching performance up to 25.6 Terabits per second and can contain as many as 256 nonblocking 10/25/50 G Ethernet ports, 96 nonblocking 40/100G Gigabit ports, or 8 nonblocking 200/400 GE QSFP-Double Density ports. The Catalyst 9600 switch also supports dual-rate 40G/100G and 10G/25G optics. Two chassis slots are dedicated for redundant supervisors. You can combine a selection of line cards for core and aggregation deployment scenarios. The chassis is equipped with a passive backplane, making it possible to replace fan tray, power supplies, and line cards without disruption. Legacy Catalyst Models Supported by Progent
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified network consultants have broad experience providing remote and on-premises support services for early-generation Catalyst Series switches for which Cisco has announced End of Life (EOL). These legacy switches typically are more expensive to operate and maintain than current models, provide lower performance and functionality, and for many cases can expose organizations to regulatory and liability issues. Progent are available to help your business to maintain and troubleshoot these older switches and can in addition help you to design and implement seamless migrations to current products within the Catalyst family or to devices from Cisco's Nexus portfolio of switches which build upon Catalyst technology.

Cisco Catalyst Express 500 Family of Switches
The Catalyst Express 500 line of managed Ethernet switches are designed for businesses with as many as 250 workers and deliver the reliability, protection, extensibility, and features small companies need at an economical price. PoE capability makes it simple to install network appliances such as VoIP phones and IP TV cameras.

Versions of the Catalyst Express 500 managed switches support from 8 to 24 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet ports plus the option of redundant power with automatic fail-over for extra dependability. Integration with Cisco access points allows businesses to set up a wireless LAN environment quickly and effectively. The Cisco Catalyst Express 500 and 520 family offers solid security against viruses thanks to Cisco's Self-Defending Network strategy and Cisco Clean Access agents. Cisco Catalyst 2940 Switch
Catalyst 2900 Series fixed-configuration, managed 10/100 Ethernet switches provide basic workgroup connectivity for small to medium-sized organizations. These wire-rate desktop appliances deliver IOS Software functions for simple data, video, and voice services at the network edge. The Cisco Catalyst 2940 family of switches are small, stackable switches featuring eight Ethernet ports and one built-in Fast Ethernet or Gigabit uplink. The enclosures can be deployed away from the wiring cabinet in space-constrained areas like on a worker's desk or in a classroom.

Cisco Catalyst 2960-S Switch
The Catalyst 2960-S Series are fixed switches intended for small companies and branch offices. Current models offer 24 or 48 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, four 1-Gigabit or two 10-GB Ethernet uplink connections, and provide switching capacity of 176 Gbps. Cisco's FlexStack feature permits as many as four Catalyst 2960-S switches to be combined in a stack to act like one switch that provides 40 Gbps of stacking performance and that reduces operational expense because of single-switch configuration. Cisco's IPv6 First Hop Security (FHS) technology guards against address interception and malicious attacks.

Catalyst 3560 Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 3560 Series is a line of non-modular switches that features IEEE 802.3af and Cisco PoE capability in Fast Ethernet and 10/100/1000 implementations. The Cisco Catalyst 3560 is a proven access-layer switch for midsize business LAN connectivity or satellite-offices, offering both Gigabit Ethernet and Power over Ethernet (PoE) options for high productivity while facilitating the installation of vital technology including Voice over IP, Wi-Fi, video surveillance, and building management systems. Customers can activate network-wide intelligent features including quality of service (QoS), rate limiting, access control lists, multicast management, and fast IP routing while maintaining the ease of traditional LAN switching.

The Cisco Catalyst 3560 switch offers a robust set of features that allow for network expandability and enhanced resilience via IP routing as well as a full suite of STP enhancements designed to maximize availability in an access Layer LAN. Improvements to the standard STP Protocol, including Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus, and Uplink Fast, as well as innovations like Flex Links, contribute to network uptime. PVST+ supports Data Link Layer traffic balancing on backup links to efficiently use the additional capacity inherent in a redundant design.

Efficient routing mechanisms including OPSF, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), BGP, and static routing improve network scale; Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) helps improve utilization of network resources; and Virtual Route Forwarding Lite protects network traffic.

Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series Switches
For midsized organizations and enterprise branch offices, the Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series switch simplifies integration of converged technologies and accommodates evolving competitive needs by offering setup flexibility, ability to manage unified network patterns, and management-free configuration of intelligent system services. In addition, the Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series is engineered for high-volume Gigabit Ethernet deployments and includes a diverse range of switches that meet the access, aggregation, and backbone-interface demands of small or midsized deployments.

Cisco's Catalyst 3750 Series switch has the IP Base image or the Services image. The IP Base image functions include advanced quality of service, rate-limiting, access control lists (ACLs), and simple static and RIP routing support. The IP Services image offers a broader selection of enterprise-grade functions, such as sophisticated built-in IP unicast/multicast routing.

Cisco StackWise technology is a stacking architecture designed for 1000 Ethernet. This technology is designed to respond to installs, deletions, and relocations while providing consistent operation. StackWise technology combines as many as nine individual switches into a single functional device, utilizing custom stack-interface cables and utilities. Each of the switches can be any combination of Cisco's Catalyst 3750 Series switches and the 3750-E Series. The stack behaves as a single switching device that is directed by a control switch, chosen from among the stack of switches. The control switch intelligently creates and keeps current all the switching and user-selected routing tables. A working stack can accommodate new switches or delete existing members without service discontinuity.

Cisco Catalyst 2960 Swiches and Catalyst 3560-CX Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 2960-CX is a fixed-configuration switch that is ultra-compact, fanless, low power, and includes a variety of mounting alternatives. The device has eight 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports and two Gigabit Ethernet uplinks and has an option for PoE+ power. Cisco's Catalyst 3560-CX is a fixed-configuration managed switch packaged in a sleek, noiseless and energy-efficient enclosure that can be mounted virtually anywhere outside a wiring closet. Models are offered with 8 or 12 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports or with six 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports and two multigigabit ports. Up to four uplink ports are available, and Power over Ethernet (PoE) is also available.

Cisco's Catalyst 2960-L family consists of value-priced fixed-configuration switches designed for branch offices, retail venues, and other environments where space is at a premium. Catalyst 2900-L compact switches have 8 to 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports and either two or four SFP uplink ports. PoE support reduces clutter and fan-free operation for most versions does away with noise. RJ-45 connectors support 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-T SFP-based ports.

Catalyst 2960-X and 2960-XR switches enhance the 2690-S line by delivering switching throughput of 216 Gbps and providing Cisco's FlexStack-Plus stacking technology by means of a live-swappable plug-in that can combine 8 Catalyst switches in a stack with 80 Gbps of stacking performance. Catalyst 2900 family switches also support NetFlow-Lite for conserving forwarding data for analysis. The Catalyst 2960-XR switch is capable of Layer 3 dynamic routing, offering the simplicity of using one switch for L2 and L3 routing.

Catalyst 3650 and Catalyst 3850 Switches
Cisco Catalyst 3650 and Catalyst 3850 series switches are fixed, stackable network access devices powered by Cisco's IOS XE operating system and incorporating comprehensive wireless network controller functionality that allows you to converge wired and wireless infrastructure on a single platform powered by a single operating system. Cisco has versions with either 24 or 48 built-in 1Gb Ethernet connections with PoE+, four 1GE or four 10-GB Ethernet uplink ports, and support for up to nine Catalyst switches per stack. All versions provide expandable Quality of Service, fast switchover for maximum uptime, support in software for IPv4 and IPv6 routing, multicast, and advanced security.

Since wireless data traffic is present at the Catalyst 3000 Series switch, administrators can spot and assign priorities to wireless data with Cisco's Flexible NetFlow (FNF) technology and sophisticated QoS capabilities for a better wireless user experience and quicker problem isolation. Fast Ethernet switching supports the high-bandwidth defined by the new 802.11ac Wave 2 Wi-Fi standard using existing cabling infrastructure. (To find out about Progent's support for Cisco's 802.11ac Wi-Fi technology, and Cisco's Meraki cloud-managed APs, refer to Planning and Deployment Support for Cisco Wireless Access Points and Controllers.)

The Cisco Catalyst 3650 Series switch offers stacking throughput of 160 Gbps and can control as many as 25 wireless access points and 1000 Wi-Fi clients on each stack. The Catalyst 3850 Series switch offers stacking throughput of 480 Gbps and supports up to 50 Wi-Fi access points and 2000 wireless users per stack. Cisco Catalyst 3850 SFP Fiber Switches incorporate 12 or 24 1G fiber data ports at line rate on every port, providing far reaching connectivity, advanced protection, and a consistent wired/wireless user experience.

Catalyst 4500-E and Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches
Catalyst 4500-E and and Catalyst 4500-X Series switches are intended for campus access and distribution environments where space for networking hardware is limited. Powered by Cisco's IOS XE software, the 4500-E and 4500-X families facilitate virtualization thanks to Cisco's Easy Virtual Network (EVN) and Virtual Switching System (VSS) technologies. Network virtualization makes it possible to divide a physical network into multiple virtual networks (VNs) whose data planes and control planes are logically separate. This provides the efficient utilization, protection, recoverability, and simplified management needed for Cloud computing or other scenarios where a common resource pool must be used by applications and services that must operate in total privacy from one another. EVN streamlines the task of creating virtual networks and scales to 32 VNs for each switch. Easy Virtual Network utilizes the capabilities of Multi-virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) and provides new features including VNET Tags and an easy technique for duplicating replicating routes between virtual networks. VSS technology makes it possible to set up Catalyst 4500-E and 4500-X Series platforms to create non-stop VNs with optimized traffic load balancing.

Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Switches
The Supervisor Engine 8-E for the Catalyst 4500-E switch includes an integrated wireless network controller that works with Cisco's Unified Access solution for wired and wireless convergence. this is the first Cisco Catalyst supervisor engine to enable wired as well as wireless services on a single switch based on Cisco's IOS XE software. Features include Cisco's FNF technology for traffic analytics across both wired and wireless networks, TrustSec/SGT2 wired/wireless security, consistent QoS for wired and Wi-Fi clients, and the expansion of Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover (NSF/SSO) to cover Wi-Fi data traffic for world-quality availability.

Available in chassis with from three to 10 plug-in slots, Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Series switches can support as many as 384 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports, up to 192 1GE fiber fiber connections, 96 10GE fiber ports, and eight 10-Gigabit Ethernet uplinks. Cisco's Supervisor Engine 8-E provides up to 928 Gbps of wired access for each system and up to 20 Gbps of wireless termination capacity. 50 wireless APs and 2000 wireless clients can be handled per switch, and 250 wireless access points and 4000 wireless clients can be managed in a two-switch installation without a standalone wireless controller.

Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 4500-X switches are fixed 10-Gigabit Ethernet aggregation platforms that provide as much as 800 Gbps of backplane switching performance per chassis. The Catalyst 4500-X can have up to 32 10-Gigabit Ethernet connections on the unit's baseboard and eight additional 10GE ports on the expansion module for a total of 40 10GE ports. Eight 10-Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports can be added via a separate module. In addition to providing non-stop performance and easy management, Cisco's virtual switching system technology on Catalyst 4500-X switches provides higher system performance of as much as 1.6 Tbps by activating all possible capacity across redundant Catalyst 4500-X switches. Additional advanced features include Flexible NetFlow technology for traffic analysis, Cisco TrustSec security, and wire-rate IPv6 forwarding.

Cisco Catalyst 6500 and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series and Catalyst 6800 switches are campus core switches that share the proven DNA of the Catalyst 6500 line of switches, which first appeared more than a decade ago and which have been continually improved since then. Cisco Catalyst 6500 and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series switches offer identical general features and operational consistency, and the modular Catalyst 6807-XL switch accepts the Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 2T and the associated family of compatible line cards and modules. This mutual compatibility and commitment to ongoing improvement protects your infrastructure expenditures and permits you to update your network backbone with minimal service interruption or IT team retraining.

Shared attributes of Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series modular switches equipped with the Supervisor Engine 2T include Cisco's ISE technology for simple, single-point control to ensure unvarying policy throughout a distributed environment, VSS capability for 99.999% availability through multi-level redundancy, and the Cisco Campus Locator/ID Separation Protocol to facilitate roaming and device mobility and to streamline network virtualization and migration to IPv6. Other virtualization features to segment specific user groups and support the unique security/compliance and Quality of Service policy requirements of each group include L2/L3 VPN, complete Multiprotocol Label Switching, Easy Virtual Network, VRF-aware applications for Network Address Translation (NAT) NetFlow, IPv6 over IPv4 GRE Tunnels, and Layer 2 geographic extensions with virtual private LAN services. For converged wired and wireless environments, the Wireless Services Module 2 for Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series modular switches supports up to 1000 APs and 15,000 wireless users.

Cisco Catalyst 6500-E Series Switches
The Catalyst 6500-E Series of modular switches are designed for distribution and campus backbone networks that need maximum availability and high concentrations of 10/100/1000 Ethernet, 1 Gigabit Ethernet fiber, or 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet access ports. Models include three to 13 slots and accept a wide selection of modules. Integrated service modules enable wireless, traffic analysis, and security. Only E-Series versions of Cisco's broad line of Catalyst 6500 switches work with the Supervisor Engine 2T.

The value-priced Catalyst 6503-E has a 4RU form factor, includes 3 slots, and offers up to 180 Gbps of switching performance on each slot. The Catalyst 6503-E switch can support 97 1-Gigabit Ethernet connections, up to 99 Gigabit Ethernet fiber ports, up to 34 10GE ports, and up to 8 40GE access ports.

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

Cisco Catalyst 6800 Switches
Catalyst 6800 switches are programmable backbone switches intended to provide best-of-breed 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet support. The Catalyst 6880-X switch is a fixed, small form factor device for Ethernet aggregation intended for small or medium-size enterprise campus cores. The 6880-X supports up to 2 Tbps switching throughput and has four slots for port cards. The maximum port density on one chassis is 80 1 Gigabit Ethernet access ports or 10GE access ports or as many as 20 40GE access ports. Configured with Cisco's Virtual Switching System, these switches can provide 4 Tbps switching performance and handle up to 158 1 Gigabit Ethernet access ports or 10GE ports or as many as 20 40GE connections.

The modular Cisco Catalyst 6807-XL switch has a 10 RU form factor chassis with 7 expansion slots and accepts existing Supervisor Engine 2T cards and service modules. (Two of the slots are for the Supervisor Engine and five are for modules.) The Catalyst 6807-XL can deliver as much as 880 Gbps of switching bandwidth per slot and up to 11.4 Tbps of switching bandwidth while handling up to 240 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports or 1GE fiber ports, up to 80 10GE access ports or up to 20 40-Gigabit Ethernet connections. A two-chassis 6807-XL system with Cisco's Virtual Switching System can support 22.8 Tbps of switching performance, 480 10/100/1000 Ethernet access ports or 1GE fiber ports, 160 10GE access ports or 40 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports. How Progent Can Assist You with Catalyst Switches
Progent can provide the remote or onsite support services of Cisco CCIE-certified consultants who have broad backgrounds delivering Catalyst switch technology support for small and medium sized businesses, branch offices, campuses, data centers, Cloud networks, and SPs. Progent's skills include Cisco's Catalyst and Nexus lines of managed switches and Cisco's IOS, IOS-XR and NX-OS control software. Support services available from Progent for Cisco Catalyst Series switches include proof-of-concept testing and validation, network analysis and monitoring, topology planning, upgrades and project management, network virtualization, wired/wireless convergence, management automation, capacity planning, troubleshooting, disaster recovery and business continuity preparedness, and data security and compliance assessment and remediation.

Progent's Cisco-certified consultants have deep expertise with open standards as well as with proprietary Cisco technologies related to switching and routing including Border Gateway Protocol, MPLS, PIM, VPNs, ISIS, VLANs, Cisco FabricPath, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), HSRP, VRRP, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Virtual Switching System (VSS), and LISP. Progent's infrastructure consultants also have experience with important networking technologies such as TCP/IP protocols, IPv4/IPv6, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol, Routing Information Protocol (RIP), and Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP). Progent's CISSP-ISSAP certified information security and compliance consultants can assist you to create a comprehensive security plan and implement Catalyst switches so that they provide maximum enforcement to your security policies.

If you need the highest available Ethernet density or sub-microsecond latency switches for a world-class data center, Progent can assist your organization to evaluate, design, and carry out a transition to Cisco's Nexus family of switches. To learn about Progent's support services for Nexus Series switches, refer to Cisco Nexus Switch consulting and support offered by Progent. Progent can also help you to integrate Catalyst data center switches with Meraki aggregation switches. (See Cisco Meraki switch integration consultants.) To learn additional information concerning Progent's consulting assistance for Cisco products, pick a subject:

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