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Cisco's Catalyst family of modular and fixed managed switches provides performance and control at the access, distribution, and core levels of converged voice, HD video, and data networks for organizations that range from small businesses and branch offices to multi-campus enterprises and service providers. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE consultants can provide online and on-premises expertise with Catalyst family switches to help you to plan a cost-effective network architecture that addresses your specific business needs, configure pilot testing, install Catalyst switches, implement and validate a sound security plan, streamline system management and monitoring, provide repair and maintenance services, maximize switch capacity, and configure Catalyst's fault-tolerant technology for near-zero downtime.

Progent can assist you to maintain and repair your legacy Catalyst switches or upgrade smoothly to current versions of Catalyst switches following industry best practices to make sure that you get the highest business value from your investment in your network.

The demand for smart, fast switching is the result 0f a confluence of relatively recent computing trends whose overall impact is a cyber avalanche of data traffic:

• Cloud and Internet of Things computing and an associated need for massive network virtualization
• The proliferation of always-connected mobile devices
• Bandwidth-intensive HD video applications
• Social business technologies
• The popularity of Big Data in enterprise analytics
• Ever more advanced cyberattacks such as ransomware

Cisco's latest lineup of Catalyst switches are designed for the distribution and core layers layers of campus environments where mobile and stationary workers must be supported with dependable high speed, strict access control, careful segmentation, application awareness, and wired/wireless convergence. Cisco's Catalyst switches address the demand for performance and control with capabilities that include high-density 10, 40, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet support, switching performance over 25 Tbps for each appliance, a comprehensive suite of technologies including Easy Virtual Network (EVN) to simplify the creation of VLANs, Virtual Switching System technology for stateful interchassis failover with subsecond backup switch recovery and "five nines" (99.999%) uptime, IPv4 and IPv6 support, AVC to maximize network utilization, and advanced Quality of Service tools for business-critical traffic control.

Cisco Catalyst switches enable businesses of all sizes to build intelligent switching and routing features into their network infrastructure, deploying an environment that can meet current requirements, expand to support future capacity demands, guard sensitive data, and separate and control processes to optimize network operations.

Catalyst 1000 Series Fixed Ethernet Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 1000 Layer 2 network access switches are small form factor, fixed-configuration switches targeted for smaller businesses and branch offices with as many as 250 users and with minimal internal IT support. Cisco's Catalyst 1000 Series includes fanless models for silent operation within an office environment. Mounting kits include desktop, wall or shelf mount, rack mount, and DIN rail mount. Created as an easy replacement for Cisco Catalyst 2960-L/2960-Plus Series deployments, Cisco's Catalyst 1000 family includes models with 8 to 48G Ethernet ports or 24 to 48 Fast Ethernet 10/100M ports.

Catalyst Series 1000 configuration and administration are simple via a web interface or command-line interface, cybersecurity is enterprise-grade, and Power over Ethernet capability with an automatically allocated budget of 740W allows a broad variety of Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. As many as eight Catalyst 1000 Gigabit Ethernet model switches can be controlled at once with single IP. Catalyst Series 1000 models are nonblocking line-rate switches, and all are powered by Cisco's familiar IOS operating system software. Quality-of-Service features include egress queues for each port as well as priority queuing to allow optimized throughput for all classes of 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 series of managed switches offers modular and fixed units and supports all deployment models including access, aggregation, and core switching. The Cisco Catalyst 9000 series offers switches with the appropriate value proposition to connect workers and things in venues from small businesses and branches to global enterprises. Catalyst 9000 products can be set up to implement any combination of local facilities, private and public clouds, and hybrid network models. Unified network management platforms and advanced security solutions reduce cost of ownership by saving time and protecting critical IT assets. Cisco's 9000X family of managed switches provide converged switching and routing, introducing the first mix of 400G QSFP-DD ports along with full mGig Ethernet and PoE ports.

With double the backplane stacking bandwidth at about half the price of the legacy Catalyst 2960-X and 2960-XR switches they are intended to replace, Cisco's Catalyst 9200 Series switches are a compelling network upgrade for small branch offices and midsize campuses. The 9200 portfolio includes switches that offer 24 or 48 ports with full PoE+; 80-160 Gbps stacking performance; and Layer 3 capabilities that include Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing, EIGP distance routing protocol, IS-IS link-state protocol, and routed access. Catalyst 9200 switches are powered by Cisco IOS XE.

The Catalyst 9200 offers 160-Gbps stacking capacity, features onsite-replaceable redundant power supplies and fans, and accepts add-in interface modules with 4x1G, 4x1/10G, 2x25G, or 2x40G uplink. The Catalyst 9200 Enhanced VN switch allows up to 32 Virtual Networks and delivers 160-Gbps backplane stacking performance. The Catalyst 9200L delivers 80-Gbps backplane stacking throughput. Both the Catalyst 9200L multigigabit and the Catalyst 9200 multigigabit support wireless bandwidth optimization with 8 or 12 multigigabit ports up to 10Gbps.

Cisco's Catalyst 9300 Series switches are fixed, stackable devices for ultra-high-density access switching. Key features provided with various models in the Catalyst 9300 family include 1T backplane stacking bandwidth, stackable SFP fiber, up to 448 multigigabit Ethernet ports and 288 ports of 90W UPOE+ with an 8-device stack, line rate IPsec tunnel with AES-256 Encryption and performance up to 100G, high-availability redundant fans and power, plus data stack cables compatible across the complete Catalyst 9300 family.

Based on Cisco IOS XE, devices in the Catalyst 9300 product line support auto device provisioning, API-driven configuration, granular visibility for close to realtime monitoring, and seamless software updates and patching. 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 enhanced because Catalyst 9300 Series switches are able to host Cisco's Umbrella agent directly. This makes it possible for organizations to design their DNS filtering policies at user or group level to block BYOD or IoT clients from accessing dangerous websites.

The entry-level Cisco Catalyst 9300L switch delivers as much as 320G stacking throughput and offers 12 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G ports and 36 10M/100M/1G ports. The 9300L uses fixed rather than modular uplink hardware for 4 1G, 4 10G, or 2 40G uplink ports. The Cisco Catalyst 9300 appliance offers 480G of backplane stacking throughput and supports 48 100M/1G/2.5G/5Gbps ports, 24 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10Gbps 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 capacity and offers 48 10G Ethernet ports. The 9300X supports uplink modules with dual-rate 100G/40G, multirate 25G/10G/1G, or multigigabit. Cisco 90W UPOE+ supports dense IoT applications. Cisco offers hardware to support 100G IPsec.

Cisco's Catalyst 9400 Series devices are modular switches based on the Cisco IOS XE operating system and intended for midsize and large campus access deployments. Delivering twice the throughput and more than four times the chassis bandwidth as the legacy Catalyst 6500 it is designed to replace, Cisco's Catalyst 9400 family ushers switch capability into the current age of networking driven by cybersecurity, mobility, Internet of Things, and cloud.

Catalyst 9400 appliances are offered with 4-slot, 7-slot, and 10-slot chassis. Two of the slots on the chassis are reserved for high-availability supervisor cards, making 2, 5, or 8 slots available for line cards. Maximum capacity per line-card slot is 480G. Switching capacity 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 switches can provide 90W UPOE+ on every port, secure network segmentation with Software-Defined Access and N+N/N+1 power redundancy for high availability. The Catalyst 9400 4-slot switch can support 96 10/100/1000 ports, 5G/10G mGig ports, or 10G SFP+ ports. The Catalyst 9400 7-slot 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 includes fixed core and edge services switches intended for the large campus. Catalyst 9500 models are powered by the Cisco IOS XE operating system and the the family includes the first infrastructure technology to provide switching rates above 25 Terabits per second.

Cisco's Catalyst 9500 appliances deliver as high as 6.4 Tbps switching performance with forwarding throughput up to 2 Billion Packet per Second. Catalyst 9500 switches can support as many as 32 nonblocking 100 GB QSFP28 optical ports, 32 nonblocking 40 Gigabit QSFP+ ports, 48 nonblocking 25 Gigabit SFP28 ports, or 48 nonblocking 10G ports. You can configure Multichassis EtherChannel (MEC) across Cisco StackWise-Virtual members for high resiliency.

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

Cisco's Catalyst 9600 Series switches are modular core and distribution switches for the enterprise campus. The 6-slot chassis loaded with a Catalyst 9600X Series Supervisor has switching performance as high as 25.6 Terabits per second and can contain up to 256 nonblocking 10/25/50 G ports, 96 nonblocking 40/100G Gigabit ports, or 8 nonblocking 200/400 GE QSFP-DD ports. The Catalyst 9600 also provides dual-rate 40G/100G and 10G/25G optics. Two chassis slots are dedicated for high-availability supervisors. You can combine a selection of line cards for core and aggregation deployment scenarios. The Catalyst 9600 chassis is equipped with a passive backplane, so you can replace fan tray, power supplies, and line cards without disruption. End-of-Life Catalyst Products Still Supported by Progent
Progent's Cisco certified consultants have broad backgrounds delivering remote and onsite support expertise for legacy Catalyst Series switches which have reached End of Life (EOL). These legacy Catalyst switches typically are more expensive to manage and maintain than current products, provide less performance and fewer features, and in some cases may expose organizations to compliance and even liability risks. Progent can assist you to support and troubleshoot these legacy Cisco products and can also help you to plan and implement non-disruptive migrations to current models within the Catalyst family or to devices from the Cisco Nexus line of switches which take advantage of Catalyst technology.

Cisco Catalyst Express 500 Series
Cisco's Catalyst Express 500 family of managed Ethernet switches are designed for businesses with as many as 250 employees and deliver the dependability, security, expandability, and feature set small businesses need at an affordable price. PoE capability makes it easy to add network appliances such as VoIP phones and IP cameras.

Models of the Catalyst Express 500 managed switches offer up to 24 10/100/1000BT Ethernet ports as well as the option of redundant power with auto fail-over for extra reliability. Integration with Cisco access points helps organizations to build a local wireless network quickly and effectively. The Cisco Catalyst Express 500 and 520 family offers solid security against viruses thanks to the Cisco Self-Defending Network strategy and Clean Access agents. Cisco Catalyst 2940 Switch
Catalyst 2900 Series fixed-configuration, managed Ethernet switches provide fundamental small-group connectivity for small to medium-size companies. These wire-rate desktop appliances offer IOS Software functions for basic mixed-media traffic support at the network edge. The Cisco Catalyst 2940 family of switches are small, stackable switches with 8 Ethernet ports plus a single built-in Fast or Gbit Ethernet uplink. The enclosures can be deployed away from the wiring cabinet in cramped areas like on or under a user's desk or in a classroom.

Catalyst 2960-S Series Switch
The Catalyst 2960-S Series are fixed-configuration switches designed for small companies and branches. Current models have 24 or 48 1Gb Ethernet ports, four 1GE or two 10-GB Ethernet uplinks, and provide throughput of 176 Gbps. Cisco's FlexStack technology allows four Catalyst 2960-S chassis to be grouped in a stack to perform as one switching unit that provides 40 Gbps of stacking bandwidth and that reduces administrative expense with single-switch setup. IPv6 FHS capability guards networks against address theft and other threats.

Cisco Catalyst 3560 Series Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 3560 Series is a selection of non-modular switches that features IEEE 802.3af and Power over Ethernet (PoE) capability in Fast Ethernet and 10/100/1000 implementations. The Cisco Catalyst 3560 Series switch is an ideal access-layer switch for midsize business LAN access or satellite-offices, offering both 10/100/1000 and Power over Ethernet (PoE) options for high efficiency while facilitating the installation of key technology including Voice over IP, wireless connectivity, video monitoring, and remote video kiosks. Customers can deploy network-wide intelligent features including quality of service, rate management, access control lists, multicast administration, and fast IP routing while maintaining the simplicity of traditional network switching.

The Cisco Catalyst 3560 switch is equipped with a robust array of capabilities that permit network scalability and higher availability through IP routing as well as a full complement of Spanning Tree Protocol improvements aimed to increase availability in a Layer 2 LAN. Improvements to the standard STP Protocol, including Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus, and Port Fast, as well as enhancements like Flex Links Layer 2 interfaces, contribute to network uptime. Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus allows for Layer 2 traffic sharing on redundant links to exploit the extra bandwidth inherent in a redundant design.

Efficient protocols such as Open Shortest Path First, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and static routing increase system capacity; Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) increases the efficiency of system resource use; and VRFLite protects data.

Catalyst 3750 Series Switches
For mid-size businesses and enterprise branch offices, the Cisco Catalyst 3750 switch facilitates integration of converged technologies and accommodates changing competitive environments by offering configuration flexibility, support for converged network patterns, and automatic configuration of intelligent network functions. In addition, the Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series switch is designed for high-volume Gigabit Ethernet deployments and includes a diverse range of switches that address the access, distribution, and backbone-connectivity demands of small or midsized networks.

The Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series switch has either the IP Base image or the Services image. The IP Base image capabilities include industry-leading QoS, rate-management, access control lists (ACLs), and simple static and Routing Information Protocol routing capability. The IP Services image provides a richer set of high-end features, including advanced hardware-based IP unicast and multicast routing.

StackWise technology is a stacking architecture optimized for Gigabit interfaces. This technology is intended to respond to installs, deletions, and relocations while providing predictable operation. StackWise technology unites up to 9 individual switches into a single logical unit, using special stack-interface cables and utilities. The individual switches can be any combination of the Cisco Catalyst 3750 switches and the 3750-E switches. The stack operates as an individual switching unit that is directed by a control switch, elected from among the stack of switches. The master switch intelligently creates and updates all the switching and user-selected routing databases. A working stack can accommodate new switches or remove existing devices without operational discontinuity.

Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series Switches and Catalyst 3560-CX Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 2960-CX is a fixed-configuration managed switch that is ultra-compact, fanless, power efficient, and allows flexible mounting alternatives. The Catalyst 2960-CX incorporates eight 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports and two 1-GE uplink ports and has an option for Power over Ethernet. Cisco's Catalyst 3560-CX is a fixed-configuration managed switch packaged in a compact, noiseless and energy-efficient unit that can be mounted virtually anywhere convenient. Versions are available with 8 or 12 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports or with 6 1-GE ports plus 2 multigigabit ports. Up to four uplinks are offered, and Power over Ethernet is also an option.

Cisco's Catalyst 2960-L family consists of entry-level fixed-configuration switches intended for small offices, retail areas, and other environments where space is limited. Catalyst 2900-L low-profile switches have 8 to 48 GE ports and either 2 or 4 Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) uplink ports. Power over Ethernet support saves space and fan-free operation for the 8- models eliminates noise. RJ-45 connectors support 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-T SFP-ports.

Cisco Catalyst 2960-X and 2960-XR Series switches enhance the 2690-S family of switches by delivering switching capacity as high as 216 Gbps and supporting Cisco's FlexStack-Plus Stacking by means of a hot-swappable module that can combine 8 Catalyst switches in a FlexStack Plus stack capable of 80 Gbps of stacking throughput. Cisco Catalyst 2900 Series switches also support NetFlow-Lite for application visibility and control. Cisco's Catalyst 2960-XR Series switch is capable of L3 dynamic routing, providing the simplicity of having a single switch for Layer 2 and Layer 3 routing.

Catalyst 3650 and Catalyst 3850 Switches
Cisco Catalyst 3650 and Catalyst 3850 series switches are fixed-configuration, stackable network access devices powered by Cisco's IOS XE OS and incorporating comprehensive wireless network controller functionality that allows you to control wired and wireless infrastructure on a single device managed by one operating system. Cisco has models with 24 or 48 1Gb Ethernet ports with Power over Ethernet plus (PoE+), four 1GE or four 10GE uplink ports, and support for up to nine switches in a stack. All models provide modular QoS, fast failover for maximum availability, support in software for IPv4 and IPv6 routing, multicast routing, and enhanced security.

Since wireless traffic is present at the Catalyst 3000 Series switch, administrators can identify and assign priorities to wireless traffic using Cisco's FNF technology and advanced QoS capabilities for an improved wireless user environment and quicker problem mediation. Multigigabit Ethernet switching supports the high-bandwidth defined by the new 802.11ac Wave 2 wireless specification on currently in-place cabling infrastructure. (For information about Progent's support for Cisco's 802.11ac Aironet Wi-Fi products, and Meraki cloud-managed access points, visit Planning and Deployment Consulting Services for Cisco Wireless Access Points and Controllers.)

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

Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Series and Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 4500-E Series and and Catalyst 4500-X Series switches are intended for access and distribution deployments where physical space for infrastructure equipment is at a premium. Powered by Cisco's IOS XE control software, the 4500-E and 4500-X product lines simplify virtualization thanks to Cisco's EVN and Virtual Switching System (VSS) technologies. Network virtualization makes it possible to segment a hardware network into a number of virtual networks (VNs) whose data and control planes are logically distinct. This makes possible the economy, security and compliance, recoverability, and simplified management required for Cloud computing or other scenarios where a single resource pool is shared by applications and services that must operate in total isolation from one another. Easy Virtual Network speeds up the task of deploying virtual networks and can be expanded to 32 VNs for each switch. Easy Virtual Network incorporates the capabilities of Multi-virtual routing and forwarding and provides additional features including VNET Tags and an easy technique for duplicating replicating routes between virtual networks. Virtual Switching System makes it easy to configure Catalyst 4500-E and 4500-X Series switches to create non-stop VNs with optimized traffic load balancing.

Catalyst 4500-E Switches
Cisco's Supervisor Engine 8-E for the Catalyst 4500-E modular switch includes a built-in wireless network controller that works with Cisco's Unified Access technology for wired and wireless convergence. this is the first Cisco Catalyst supervisor engine to allow wired as well as wireless services on a single platform powered by IOS XE. Features included are Cisco's FNF technology for capacity planning encompassing wired and Wi-Fi networks, TrustSec wired/wireless security, identical Quality of Service for wired and wireless networks, plus the extension of Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover to include wireless traffic for enterprise-class availability.

Available in chassis that have from three to 10 slots, Catalyst 4500-E switches with Supervisor 8-E can handle up to 384 1-Gigabit Ethernet access ports, 193 Gigabit Ethernet fiber fiber ports, 96 10GE fiber connections, and eight 10GE uplink ports. Cisco's Supervisor Engine 8-E delivers as much as 928 Gbps of wired capacity per system and as much as 20 Gbps of wireless termination capacity. 50 Wi-Fi access points and 2000 Wi-Fi clients can be supported on each chassis, and up to 250 access points and 4000 clients are managed in a multi-switch deployment without a separate wireless controller.

Catalyst 4500-X Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 4500-X switches are fixed-configuration 10-Gigabit Ethernet aggregation platforms that can provide up to 800 Gbps of core switching performance per chassis. The Catalyst 4500-X supports as many as 32 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports on the unit's baseboard and eight extra 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports on the expansion module for a total of up to 40 non-blocking 10GE ports. Eight 10GE uplink ports are available via a separate module. In addition to offering zero-downtime operation and easy management, Cisco's VSS technology on Catalyst 4500-X Series switches offers increased system performance of up to 1.6 Tbps by enabling all available bandwidth between redundant Catalyst 4500-X switches. Other advanced features include Cisco's FNF solution for application visibility, TrustSec protection, and fast, hardware-based IPv6 forwarding.

Catalyst 6500 and Catalyst 6800 Series Switches
Catalyst 6500 and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series switches are enterprise campus backbone platforms that incorporate the field-proven DNA of the Catalyst 6500 line of products, which were introduced over a dozen years ago and have been steadily enhanced ever since. Cisco Catalyst 6500 and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series switches provide the same features and operation, and the modular Cisco Catalyst 6807-XL supports the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 2T and its extensive family of line cards and modules. This backwards compatibility and program of ongoing improvement protects your infrastructure expenditures and allows you to update your network with little service interruption or management staff re-education.

Shared features of Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series and Catalyst 6800 Series modular switches equipped with the Supervisor Engine 2T include Cisco's Identity Services Engine for convenient, centralized administration to put in place unvarying policy throughout a distributed network, Virtual Switching System technology for 99.999% uptime via multi-level failover, and Cisco's Campus Locator/ID Separation Protocol to facilitate roaming and device mobility and to simplify network virtualization and migration to IPv6. Additional virtual networking features to partition distinct client groups and serve the special security/compliance and QoS policy requirements of each group include L2/L3 VPN, complete MPLS, Easy Virtual Network (EVN), VPN Routing and Forwarding-aware technology for NAT NetFlow, GRE for v4/v6, and Layer 2 geographic extensions with virtual private LAN services. For converged wired/wireless networking, the WiSM2 controller Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series modular switches supports up to 1000 wireless access points and 15,000 wireless users.

Catalyst 6500-E Switches
The Cisco Catalyst 6500-E Series of modular switches are intended for aggregation and enterprise backbone environments that require maximum uptime and high concentrations of 10/100/1000 Ethernet, 1 Gigabit Ethernet fiber, or 10 and 40 GE access ports. Available versions have three to 13 expansion slots and work with a wide selection of interface modules. Integrated service modules support wireless, traffic monitoring, and security and compliance. Just E-Series models of Cisco's broad family of 6500 switches accept the Supervisor Engine 2T.

The value-priced Catalyst 6503-E switch has a 4RU chassis, includes 3 expansion slots, and delivers as much as 180 Gbps of switching performance on each slot. The Cisco Catalyst 6503-E supports 97 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, up to 99 Gigabit Ethernet fiber access ports, 34 10GE ports, and 8 40GE access ports.

The high-end Catalyst 6513-E has a 19RU, 13-slot chassis and offers as much as 180 Gbps of capacity per slot, providing a system bandwidth of up to 4 Tbps. A Virtual Switching System configured system can handle up to 8 Tbps of switching bandwidth. The Cisco Catalyst 6513-E switch offers a maximum of 529 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, up to 534 Gigabit Ethernet fiber connections, up to 180 10-Gigabit Ethernet connections, and 44 40GE ports.

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-configuration, small form factor device for high-density Ethernet designed for small or midsize enterprise campus cores. The Catalyst 6880-X supports as much as 2 Tbps switching throughput and features four slots for port cards. The maximum port concentration per chassis is 80 1 Gigabit Ethernet connections or 10GE access ports or as many as 20 40GE ports. With VSS, these switches can provide 4 Tbps bandwidth and handle up to 158 1 Gigabit Ethernet connections or 10GE connections or as many as 20 40-Gigabit Ethernet access ports.

The modular Catalyst 6807-XL switch comes in a 10 RU form factor with 7 expansion slots and accepts existing Supervisor Engine 2T line cards and modules. (Two of the 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 on each slot and up to 11.4 Tbps of switching bandwidth while handling up to 240 1 Gigabit Ethernet connections or 1GE fiber connections, 80 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports or 20 40GE connections. an 6807-XL system with VSS can support 22.8 Tbps of switching throughput, 480 1 Gigabit Ethernet connections or 1GE fiber ports, 160 10-Gigabit Ethernet access ports or 40 40-Gigabit Ethernet access ports. How Progent Can Help Your Business with Cisco Catalyst Series Switches
Progent can provide the remote or onsite services of Cisco CCIE-certified consultants who have extensive experience providing Catalyst switch technology solutions for small and medium sized businesses, branch offices, campuses, data centers, Cloud networks, and SPs. Progent's practice areas include Catalyst and Nexus lines of managed switches and Cisco's IOS and NX-OS operating systems. Consulting and support services available from Progent's experts for Catalyst switches include pilot testing and validation, system analysis, network architecture design, upgrades and project management, virtualization, wired/wireless unification, network management, capacity planning, problem mitigation, disaster recovery planning, and network security testing and remediation.

Progent offers deep expertise with open standards and with Cisco-owned technologies related to switching and routing such as BGP, MPLS traffic engineering, Protocol Independent Multicast, VPNs, Spanning-Tree Protocol, VLANs, Cisco FabricPath, VPC, HSRP, VRRP, OSPF, Virtual Switching System (VSS), and Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP). Progent's network specialists also offer familiarity with crucial networking technologies such as TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6, EIGRP, Routing Information Protocol, and IGMP. Progent's CISSP-ISSAP certified information security consultants can show you how to create an enterprise-wide security and compliance strategy and deploy Cisco Catalyst switches so they provide maximum support for your security posture.

In case you require the highest available density or sub-microsecond latency Cisco switches for a world-class data center, Progent can help you to analyze, design, and implement a transition to Cisco's Nexus family of switches. To learn about Progent's consulting and support capabilities for Cisco's Nexus Series switches, see Cisco Nexus Switch configuration and support offered by Progent. Progent can also help you to integrate Catalyst core switches with Meraki distribution switches. (See Cisco Meraki switch integration consultants.) To learn more information concerning Progent's professional support for Cisco technology, pick a subject:

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