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The Catalyst line of modular and fixed-configuration managed switches provides performance and intelligence at the access, distribution, and core levels of converged voice, HD video, and data networks for organizations that range from small businesses and branches to multi-campus enterprises and SPs. Progent's Cisco-certified consultants offer remote and onsite support for Catalyst family switches to assist you to design a cost-effective infrastructure that addresses your specific business requirements, configure pilot testing systems, deploy Catalyst switches, establish and verify a sensible security plan, automate system management and performance tracking, deliver troubleshooting and support services, maximize switch capacity, and set up Catalyst's high-availability (HA) solutions for near-zero downtime.
Progent can assist you to maintain and troubleshoot your older Catalyst switches or upgrade with minimal disruption to up-to-date 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 need for smart, high-performance switching is driven by a combination of fairly new networking patterns whose net impact is a virtual tsunami of data traffic:
- Cloud and Internet of Things computing and an associated demand for massive network virtualization
- The proliferation of BYOD computing
- Data guzzling rich media apps
- Social business technologies
- The popularity of Big Data in enterprise analytics
- Ever more sophisticated cyberattacks like ransomware
Cisco's latest lineup of Catalyst switches are ideal for the distribution and core layers layers of enterprise campus environments where office employees must be provided for by offering unvarying high speed, secure user access control, careful segregation, application awareness, and wired/wireless convergence. Cisco's Catalyst series switches are designed to meet the demand for performance and intelligence with capabilities such as high-port-count 10G/40G/100G services, switching performance more than 25T per chassis, a powerful suite of technologies including EVN to simplify the creation of virtual networks, Virtual Switching System technology for switch failover with instant virtual switch restoration and "five nines" (99.999%) uptime, IPv6 capability, Application Visibility and Control (AVC) to maximize system resource usage, and sophisticated QoS capabilities for business-critical traffic prioritization.
Catalyst switches enable businesses of any size to benefit from incorporating intelligent switching and routing services into their network infrastructure, deploying an environment that can meet current requirements, scale to accommodate expected growth, guard vital information, and separate and control processes to optimize network productivity.
Catalyst 1000 Series Fixed Ethernet Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 1000 Layer 2 network access switches are small form factor, fixed switches intended for smaller businesses and branch offices with as many as 250 users and with minimal internal IT expertise. Cisco's Catalyst 1000 Series includes fanless models for quiet operation within an office venue. Mounting options include desktop, wall mount, standard rack mount, and DIN rail mount. Created as an easy upgrade for Catalyst 2960-L or 2960-Plus deployments, Cisco's Catalyst 1000 line includes versions with 8 to 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports or 24 to 48 Fast Ethernet 10/100M Mbps ports.
Catalyst Series 1000 configuration and administration are easy using a web UI or CLI, cybersecurity is enterprise-grade, and PoE+ ports with a dynamically distributed budget of 740W allows a broad range of IoT implementations. Up to eight Catalyst 1000 Gigabit Ethernet Series switches can be managed at once with single IP. Catalyst Series 1000 units are nonblocking line-rate switches, and all are based on Cisco's venerable IOS Software. QoS features include egress queues on each port plus priority packet queuing to provide optimized throughput for time-critical traffic. Catalyst 1000 switches also offer Shaped Round Robin scheduling and WTD congestion avoidance.
Catalyst 9000 Series Fixed and Modular Managed Switches
The Cisco Catalyst 9000 family of managed switches offers modular and fixed units and can support all deployment scenarios including access, aggregation, and core switching. The Cisco Catalyst 9000 family includes switches with the appropriate value proposition to connect people and things in venues ranging from small businesses and branch offices to major enterprises. Catalyst 9000 Series products can be configured to support any mix of onsite facilities, private/public clouds, and hybrid networks. Unified management platforms and cutting-edge security solutions reduce expenses by cutting operational overhead and protecting critical IT assets. Cisco's 9000X series of switches offer converged switching and routing, introducing the first combination of 400G QSFP-DD ports plus full mGig and Power-over-Ethernet ports.
With double the backplane stacking bandwidth at around half the price of the legacy Catalyst 2960-X and 2960-XR switches they are intended to replace, Catalyst 9200 Series switches are a natural infrastructure improvement for small branch offices and midsize campus environments. The Catalyst 9200 portfolio includes switches that support 24 or 48 ports with full PoE+; 80-160 Gbps stacking bandwidth; and Layer 3 capabilities that include OSPF Interior Gateway Protocol, EIGP distance routing protocol, IS-IS link-state protocol, and routed access. Catalyst 9200 switches run the Cisco IOS XE operating system.
The Catalyst 9200 offers 160-Gbps stacking bandwidth, supports onsite-replaceable redundant power supplies and fans, and accepts add-in network modules with 4x1G, 4x1/10G, 2x25G, or 2x40G uplink. The Catalyst 9200 Enhanced VN switch supports as many as 32 Virtual Networks and delivers 160-Gbps stacking bandwidth. The Catalyst 9200L offers 80-Gbps backplane stacking throughput. The Catalyst 9200L multigigabit and the Catalyst 9200 multigigabit offer wireless performance optimization with 8 or 12 mGig Ethernet ports up to 10G.
Catalyst 9300 Series switches are fixed, stackable devices for high-density access switching. Key features provided with models in the Catalyst 9300 product line include up to 1Tbps stacking throughput, stackable SFP fiber, up to 448 mGig ports including 288 ports of 90W UPOE+ with an 8-device stack, line rate IPsec with AES-256 Encryption and speeds up to 100G, HA fans and power supplies, plus data stack cables common throughout the entire Catalyst 9300 family.
Based on the Cisco IOS XE operating system, devices in the Catalyst 9300 family support automated provisioning, API-driven configuration, granular visibility for near realtime monitoring, and transparent software updates. Advanced security capabilities include Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA) as well as AES-256 MACsec and IPSec encryption, and Cisco Trust Anchor Technologies with Secure Boot. Cloud security is enhanced because Catalyst 9300 Series switches have the ability to host Cisco's Umbrella agent directly. This allows organizations to customize their DNS policies at user or group level to prevent BYOD or IoT users from accessing malicious websites.
The entry-level Cisco Catalyst 9300L switch delivers as much as 320G stacking bandwidth and offers 12 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G ports and 36 10M/100M/1G ports. The 9300L uses fixed instead of modular uplink hardware for 4 1G, 4 10G, or 2 40G uplink ports. The Cisco Catalyst 9300 appliance offers 480G of stacking throughput and supports 48 100M/1G/2.5G/5Gbps Ethernet ports, 24 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10Gbps 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 1T stacking bandwidth and supports 48 10G port density. The 9300X supports modular uplinks with dual-rate 100G/40G, multirate 25G/10G/1G, or multigigabit. Cisco 90W UPOE+ supports dense IoT applications. Hardware is available to support 100G IPsec.
Cisco's Catalyst 9400 Series devices are modular switches powered by the Cisco IOS XE operating system and designed for medium-size and large campus access networks. Offering double the performance and more than four times the chassis bandwidth as the Catalyst 6500 it is built to replace, the Catalyst 9400 portfolio brings switch capability into the current age of connectivity impelled by cybersecurity, mobility, IoT, and cloud.
Catalyst 9400 appliances are offered with 4-slot, 7-slot, and 10-slot chassis. Two of the slots on each chassis are reserved for redundant supervisor cards, leaving 2, 5, or 8 slots available for line cards. Max capacity for each line-card slot is 480 Gbps. Switching capacity can reach 1.44 Terabits per second and forwarding performance on Supervisor Module can reach 9 Tbps with the 10-slot chassis. All Catalyst 9400 models offer 90W UPOE+ on every access port, secure segmentation with Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) and N+N/N+1 power redundancy for high resilience. Cisco's Catalyst 9400 4-slot switch can support 96 10/100/1000 ports, 5G/10G mGig ports, or 10G SFP+ ports. The Catalyst 9400 7-slot switch supports 240 ports, and the Catalyst 9400 10-slot supports 384 ports. All Catalyst 9400 appliances can support 2 non-blocking 40G QSFP uplinks and up to 8 non-blocking 10G SFP+ uplinks.
The Catalyst 9500 family consists of fixed core and edge services switches designed for the enterprise campus. Catalyst 9500 switches are powered by the Cisco IOS XE operating system and the the family includes the first infrastructure technology to deliver switching rates higher than 25 Terabits per second.
Cisco's Catalyst 9500 appliances deliver as high as 6.4 Tbps switching performance with forwarding throughput as high as 2 Bpps. Catalyst 9500 appliances can provide up to 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 MEC multipathing across StackWise-Virtual members for high availability.
Catalyst 9500X switches support as high as 25.6 Terabits per second switching capacity with 2 Bpps forwarding capacity. Catalyst 9500X devices support up to 28 nonblocking 40/100 Gigabit QSFP28 optical 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 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 with a Catalyst 9600X Series Supervisor has switching capacity up to 25.6 Tbps and can support up to 256 nonblocking 10/25/50 Gigabit ports, 96 nonblocking 40/100G Gigabit ports, or 8 nonblocking 200/400 G QSFP-Double Density ports. The Catalyst 9600 switch also provides dual-rate 40G/100G and 10G/25G optics. Two chassis slots are reserved for high-availability supervisors. You can mix and match a variety of line cards for core and aggregation deployment scenarios. The chassis uses a passive backplane, making it possible to replace fan tray, power supplies, and line cards without disrupting operation.
End-of-Life Catalyst Switches Still Supported by Progent
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified consultants have extensive experience delivering online and on-premises support expertise for older Catalyst Series switches for which Cisco has announced End of Life or End of Support. These outdated switches usually cost more to manage and maintain than contemporary models, provide less capacity and functionality, and in many cases can expose businesses to compliance and even liability issues. Progent's consultants are available to help your business to manage and troubleshoot these legacy Cisco products and can in addition assist you to plan and carry out seamless migrations to current models within the Catalyst line or to solutions from the Cisco Nexus line of switches which take advantage of Catalyst technology.
Catalyst Express 500 Line
The Catalyst Express 500 family of managed Ethernet switches are intended for companies with up to 250 employees and deliver the reliability, protection, scalability, and feature set small businesses require at an economical cost. PoE capability makes it simple to add network appliances such as VoIP phones and IP TV cameras.
Models of the Catalyst Express 500 and 520 switches offer from 8 to 24 10/100/1000BT ports plus the option of backup power supplies with automatic switch-over for additional reliability. Interoperation with Cisco access points allows businesses to set up a wireless LAN environment rapidly and easily. The Cisco Catalyst Express 500 and 520 family provides solid security against malicious attacks thanks to Cisco's Self-Defending Network technology and Clean Access agents.
Catalyst 2940 Switch
Catalyst 2900 non-modular, managed 10/100 switches offer basic workgroup networking for small to medium-size companies. These wire-speed desktop switches offer IOS Software features for basic mixed-media traffic support at the edge of the network. The Cisco 2940 line of switches are small, entry-level switches with 8 Ethernet ports plus one built-in Fast Ethernet or Gbit Ethernet uplink. The enclosures can be deployed away from the wiring closet in cramped areas such as on or under a worker's desk or in a classroom.
Cisco Catalyst 2960-S Series Switch
The Cisco Catalyst 2960-S Series are fixed switches intended for small companies and branches. Available versions have either 24 or 48 1Gb Ethernet ports, four 1-Gigabit or two 10GE uplink ports, and deliver switching capacity of up to 176 Gbps. Cisco's FlexStack technology permits up to four Catalyst 2960-S switches to be grouped in a FlexStack stack to act as one switch that offers 40 Gbps of stacking performance and that cuts operational expense with single-switch setup. Cisco's IPv6 First Hop Security capability guards networks against IPv6 address interception and other threats.
Catalyst 3560 Family Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 3560 Series is a line of fixed-configuration switches that features IEEE 802.3af and Cisco Power over Ethernet (PoE) functionality in 10/100 Ethernet and Gigabit implementations. The Catalyst 3560 switch is a proven access-layer switch for midsize business LAN access or local-offices, offering both 10/100/1000 and Power over Ethernet options for high productivity while facilitating the installation of vital technology including IP telephony, wireless access, video monitoring, and building management systems. Customers can activate comprehensive smart services such as QoS, rate limiting, access control lists (ACLs), multicast administration, and fast IP routing with the ease of traditional LAN switching.
The Catalyst 3560 Series switch offers a robust array of features that permit network scalability and higher availability through IP routing plus a complete complement of Spanning Tree Protocol improvements aimed to maximize throughput in a Layer 2 LAN. Enhancements to the conventional Spanning Tree Protocol, including PVST+, and Uplink Fast, as well as enhancements such as Flex Links interfaces, contribute to network uptime. PVST+ allows for Data Link Layer traffic sharing on backup connections to exploit the additional bandwidth inherent in a redundant architecture.
Important routing protocols such as Open Shortest Path First (OPSF), EIGRP, BGP, static routing, and PBR increase system capacity; Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) increases resource utilization; and VRFLite secures network traffic.
Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series Switches
For mid-size businesses and corporate branches, Cisco's Catalyst 3750 Series facilitates integration of unified technologies and adapts to evolving competitive environments by providing setup flexibility, ability to manage unified network traffic, and automatic set up of intelligent system services. In addition, the Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series switch is engineered for high-density 1000 Ethernet deployments and includes a wide selection of switches that address the access, aggregation, and backbone-interface requirements of small or midsized networks.
Cisco's Catalyst 3750 Series includes either the IP Base or the IP Services image. The IP Base image features include industry-leading quality of service (QoS), rate-limiting, ACLs, and basic static and RIP routing capability. The IP Services image provides a broader selection of enterprise-level features, such as sophisticated built-in IP unicast/multicast routing.
StackWise technology is a mechanism designed for Gigabit Ethernet. This technology is designed to respond to installs, deletions, and redeployments while providing predictable operation. StackWise combines up to 9 separate switches into one logical device, utilizing special stack-interface cables and stacking utilities. The individual switches can be any mix of the Catalyst 3750 Series switches and the Catalyst 3750-E Series switches. The stack behaves as a single switching unit that is directed by a master switch, selected from one of the stack of switches. The control switch intelligently creates and updates all the switching and user-selected routing tables. A running stack can accommodate new devices or delete existing members without service interruption.
Cisco Catalyst 2960 Swiches and Catalyst 3560-CX Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 2960-CX is a fixed-port switch that is compact, fanless, low power, and allows a variety of mounting alternatives. The Catalyst 2960-CX incorporates eight 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports and two Gigabit Ethernet uplinks and optionally provides PoE+ power. Cisco's Catalyst 3560-CX appliance is a fixed-port switch housed in a sleek, quiet and low-power unit that can be mounted almost anywhere outside a wiring closet. Models are offered with 8 or 12 1-GE ports or with six 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports and two multigigabit Ethernet ports. Up to four uplink ports are offered, and PoE+ power is also available.
Cisco's Catalyst 2960-L line includes entry-level fixed-configuration managed switches designed for branch offices, retail areas, and other places where space is limited. These low-profile switches have 8 to 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports and either two or four SFP uplink ports. Power over Ethernet support saves space and fanless design for the 8- versions eliminates noise. RJ-45 interfaces handle 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-T SFP-based ports.
Catalyst 2960-X and Catalyst 2960-XR Series switches enhance the 2690-S family by offering switching performance of up to 216 Gbps and supporting Cisco's FlexStack-Plus stacking technology via a live-swappable module that allows 8 Catalyst switches in a FlexStack Plus stack capable of 80 Gbps of stacking performance. Catalyst 2900 family switches also work with NetFlow-Lite for flow-based traffic monitoring. The Catalyst 2960-XR Series switch features Layer 3 dynamic routing, offering the simplicity of using one device for Layer 2 and Layer 3 routing.
Catalyst 3650 and Catalyst 3850 Series Switches
Catalyst 3650 and Catalyst 3850 switches are fixed, stackable access switches based on Cisco's IOS XE operating system and incorporating full wireless network controller capability that lets you converge wired and wireless infrastructure on a single device managed by a single OS. Cisco has models with 24 or 48 1Gb Ethernet ports with PoE+, four 1-Gigabit or four 10-GB Ethernet uplink ports, and support for as many as nine switches in a stack. All models offer expandable QoS, stateful switchover for maximum uptime, software support for IPv4 and IPv6 routing, multicast, and advanced security features.
Since wireless traffic is visible at the Catalyst 3000 family switch, administrators can identify and assign priorities to wireless traffic using Cisco's FNF technology along with advanced QoS capabilities for an improved wireless user environment and quicker problem isolation. Multigigabit Ethernet switching supports the high-throughput called for by the new 802.11ac Wave 2 Wi-Fi standard on currently in-place cabling solutions. (For information about Progent's consulting and support services for Cisco's 802.11ac Aironet Wi-Fi technology, and Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, refer to Planning and Deployment Support for Cisco Wireless Products.)
The Catalyst 3650 delivers stacking throughput as high as 160 Gbps and can control up to 25 wireless APs and 1000 Wi-Fi users on each switch or stack. The Catalyst 3850 switch offers stacking throughput as high as 480 Gbps and supports up to 50 Wi-Fi access points and 2000 wireless clients per stack. Cisco Catalyst 3850 SFP Fiber Switches have 12 or 24 1G fiber connections at line rate, offering long distance connections, enhanced security, and a consistent wired and wireless experience.
Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Series and Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches
Catalyst 4500-E Series and and Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series switches are intended for access and distribution environments where space for infrastructure hardware is limited. Running Cisco's IOS XE operating system, the Catalyst 4500-E and Catalyst 4500-X product lines facilitate virtualization by supporting Cisco's Easy Virtual Network and Virtual Switching System technologies. Virtualization allows you to segment a physical network into a number of virtual networks whose data and control planes are logically distinct. This provides the economy, security and compliance, resilience, and manageability needed for Cloud computing or other situations where a common resource pool must be used by software and services that need to operate in total privacy from one another. EVN speeds up the process of creating VNs and can be expanded to 32 VNs per switch. EVN utilizes features of Multi-VRF and provides new features including VNET Tags and a simple technique for duplicating replicating routes between VNs. VSS technology makes it possible to configure Catalyst 4500-E and 4500-X Series platforms to produce non-stop VNs with optimized load balancing.
Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Switches
Cisco's Supervisor Engine for for the Catalyst 4500-E modular switch has a built-in wireless network controller that supports Cisco's Unified Access solution for wired/wireless convergence. The Supervisor Engine 8-E is the initial Cisco Catalyst supervisor to permit wired as well as wireless services on a single switch powered by IOS XE software. Technologies include Cisco's FNF solution for capacity planning encompassing both wired and wireless networks, Cisco TrustSec/SGT2 wired and wireless data security, identical Quality of Service for wired and wireless clients, plus the extension of Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover to include wireless traffic for world-class availability.
Available in chassis with from three to 10 plug-in slots, Catalyst 4500-E Series switches can support as many as 384 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports, up to 192 Gigabit Ethernet fiber fiber connections, 96 10GE fiber ports, and eight 10GE uplink ports. Cisco's Supervisor Engine 8-E delivers up to 928 Gbps of wired access for each system and up to 20 Gbps of wireless termination capacity. 50 Wi-Fi access points and 2000 Wi-Fi clients can be supported per switch, and up to 250 wireless access points and 4000 clients can be supported in a two-switch deployment without requiring a standalone wireless controller.
Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 4500-X switches are fixed-configuration 10-Gigabit Ethernet aggregation platforms that deliver up to 800 Gbps of core switching performance per chassis. The Catalyst 4500-X supports up to 32 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports on the unit's baseboard and eight additional 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports on the optional expansion module for a maximum of 40 non-blocking 10GE ports. Eight 10-Gigabit Ethernet uplinks can be added with another module. In addition to providing zero-downtime performance and easy management, Cisco's virtual switching system technology on Catalyst 4500-X switches provides increased system throughput of as much as 1.6 Tbps by enabling all possible capacity between VSS-linked Catalyst 4500-X switches. Other advanced features include Cisco's Flexible NetFlow solution for capacity planning, Cisco TrustSec protection, and wire-rate IPv6 forwarding.
Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches
Cisco Catalyst 6500 and Catalyst 6800 Series switches are campus core platforms that share the field-proven DNA of the Cisco Catalyst 6500 line of products, which were introduced over a dozen years ago and have been continually improved ever since. Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series and Catalyst 6800 switches offer the same features and operational consistency, and the modular Cisco Catalyst 6807-XL switch accepts the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 2T and its portfolio of compatible line cards and service modules. This backwards compatibility and commitment to ongoing enhancement protects your technology expenditures and allows you to update your network with little downtime or IT staff training.
Common features of Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco Catalyst 6800 modular switches equipped with the Supervisor Engine 2T include Cisco's Identity Services Engine (ISE) for simple, centralized administration to ensure unvarying policy throughout a distributed environment, VSS technology for maximum availability via multi-level failover, and the Cisco LISP protocol to facilitate roaming and device mobility and to streamline network virtualization and transition to IPv6. Additional virtual networking features to segment specific client groups and support the unique security and QoS policy requirements of every group include Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN, full MPLS, Easy Virtual Network, VRF-aware applications for Network Address Translation NetFlow, GRE for v4/v6, and L2 extensions with virtual private LAN services (VPLS). For converged wired/wireless networking, the Wireless Services Module 2 for Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series and Catalyst 6800 Series modular switches supports 1000 APs and 15,000 wireless clients.
Cisco Catalyst 6500-E Series Switches
The Cisco Catalyst 6500-E family of modular switches are intended for aggregation and campus backbone environments that need world-class uptime and high concentrations of 1 Gigabit Ethernet, 1 Gigabit Ethernet fiber, or 10 and 40 GE ports. Models come with three to 13 slots and work with a broad selection of interfaces. Integrated service modules support wireless management, network monitoring, and security. Just E-Series versions of Cisco's broad line of Catalyst 6500 switches accept Cisco's Supervisor Engine 2T.
The entry-level Catalyst 6503-E switch has a 4 rack unit (4RU) form factor, holds 3 slots, and delivers 180 Gbps of switching bandwidth on each slot. The Cisco Catalyst 6503-E switch can support up to 97 1-Gigabit Ethernet connections, up to 99 1GE fiber ports, 34 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports, and up to 8 40GE access ports.
The high-end Catalyst 6513-E has a 19RU, 13-slot form factor and offers 180 Gbps of capacity per slot, with a total system capacity of up to 4 Tbps. A Virtual Switching System configuration can handle 8 Tbps of bandwidth. The Catalyst 6513-E Series switch supports up to 529 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports, up to 534 Gigabit Ethernet fiber connections, 180 10GE connections, and 44 40GE connections.
Cisco Catalyst 6800 Switches
Catalyst 6800 switches are campus core platforms designed to deliver best-of-breed 10/40/100 GE services. The Catalyst 6880-X switch is a fixed-configuration, small form factor device for high-density Ethernet designed for small or medium-size enterprise campus backbones. The Catalyst 6880-X supports up to 2 Tbps throughput and includes four slots for plug-in port cards. The maximum port concentration on one chassis is 80 1 Gigabit Ethernet connections or 10GE access ports or as many as 20 40-Gigabit Ethernet connections. Configured with Cisco's Virtual Switching System, a two-chassis system can provide 4 Tbps switching bandwidth and support up to 158 10/100/1000 Ethernet access ports or 10-Gigabit Ethernet connections or as many as 20 40GE ports.
The modular Cisco Catalyst 6807-XL switch has a 10 RU form factor chassis that has 7 slots and accepts standard Supervisor Engine 2T cards and service modules. (Two slots are reserved for the Supervisor Engine and the other five are for modules.) The Cisco Catalyst 6807-XL offers up to 880 Gbps of switching bandwidth on each slot and up to 11.4 Tbps of switching throughput while providing up to 240 1 Gigabit Ethernet access ports or 1GE fiber ports, 80 10-Gigabit Ethernet access ports or up to 20 40GE access ports. A two-chassis 6807-XL system with VSS can support 22.8 Tbps of switching bandwidth, 480 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports or 1GE fiber connections, 160 10GE access ports or 40 40GE connections.
How Progent Can Help You with Catalyst Switches
Progent offers the remote or on-premises expertise of Cisco CCIE-certified network consultants who have broad backgrounds providing Catalyst switch technology support for small and midsize businesses, branch offices, enterprises, data centers, Cloud networks, and service providers. Progent's areas of expertise include Catalyst and Nexus lines of smart switches and with Cisco's IOS, IOS-XR and NX-OS operating systems. Support services available from Progent for Catalyst switches include proof-of-concept testing, system analysis and monitoring, topology planning, migrations and project management, network virtualization, wired/wireless unification, management automation, capacity planning, problem mitigation, disaster recovery and business continuity planning, and information security and compliance assessment and remediation.
Progent's Cisco-certified consultants have broad expertise with open standards and with proprietary Cisco protocols and technologies related to switching and routing including BGP, MPLS, PIM, VPNs, ISIS, virtual LANs, FabricPath, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP), VRRP, OSPF, Virtual Switching System (VSS), and LISP. Progent's network experts also have familiarity with important technologies such as TCP/IP protocols, IPv4/IPv6, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), RIP, and Internet Group Management Protocol. Progent's CISSP-ISSAP certified network security and compliance consultants can show you how to develop a comprehensive security and compliance strategy and implement Cisco Catalyst switches so that they provide maximum enforcement to your security posture.
If you need the highest available density or extremely low latency switches for a world-class data center, Progent can assist your organization to evaluate, design, and implement a migration to Nexus Series switches. For information about Progent's consulting and support capabilities for Cisco's Nexus Series switches, refer to Nexus Switch configuration and support offered by Progent. Progent can also help you to integrate Catalyst core switches with Cisco Meraki distribution switches. (See Cisco Meraki switch integration consultants.)
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Progent's Cisco-Premier network management consultants can show you how to run Cisco's management utilities alongside a selection of specialized third-party products to create a comprehensive network management solution to keep your network operating smoothly, conserve expensive resources, protect your data, revive rapidly from hardware failure or deliberate attacks, and allow you to add or reassign network resources sensibly and economically as your business evolves.
Sharepoint Services Small Office Computer Consulting
Sharepoint Portal Server Outsourcing Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer computer support and technology consulting services for Microsoft .NET Servers and applications and for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2003. Progent's support team can help you design, deploy, troubleshoot and manage the entire suite of Windows .NET Servers including SQL Server, ISA Server, Microsoft Small Business Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Server 2010, SharePoint, Hyper-V, Microsoft Lync Server, Project Server, and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager.
Support Desk Sharing On-site Support
Technical Support Shared Call Center
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco authorized Consultants offer three ways to help medium-size and large organizations create a cost-effective and productive in-house Computer Support Help Desk. Progent's help desk consulting services include Return on Investment evaluation, process study and enhancement, management reporting, education of internal staff, and documentation of procedures. Progent's Software Evaluation and Integration Support Services help companies sift through the various high-quality Help Desk application programs on the market and determine which products might be too costly, lack critical features, or align poorly with your organization's corporate culture. Progent also offers short-term staffing for organizations who want to augment their internal Help Desk staff for occasional projects or to substitute for vacationing or incapacitated workers.
Consultant Services Database Application Development
Integration RDBMS
Progent's Microsoft-certified database consultants offer small and midsize businesses online support for popular database products including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and Office Access. Support services offered by Progent include software installation and integration, application architecture and coding, management services, replication solutions, storage management, performance optimization, data migration, information security, backup and recovery options, problem solving, and training.
Cloud Backup Security Online Help
ProSight DPS ECHO Backup and Recovery Services IT Consultants
ProSight Data Protection Services ECHO offer small and mid-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables fast restoration of vital files, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver world-class support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can assist you to restore your critical information.
Cisco Firepower 9300 Series Firewalls Technology Consulting
Firepower Computer Consulting
Cisco's Firepower Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) deliver a significant performance boost compared to Cisco's previous-generation ASA 5500-X security appliances and offer unified control of advanced security capabilities like application visibility and control (AVC), next-generation intrusion protection (NGIPS) with risk prioritization, advanced malware protection, DDoS mitigation, and multi-node sandboxing. Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified firewall consultants can assist you to plan and execute a smooth upgrade to Cisco Firepower Series firewalls from Cisco's from ASA 5500-X, ASA 5500, or PIX appliances and help you integrate Firepower firewalls with Cisco's security services to build and centrally control network environments that span branch offices, data centers, and cloud resources.
After Hours PIX Outsourcing
Cisco Security Online Troubleshooting
Cisco's PIX firewalls have been discontinued and Cisco might not offer support these legacy devices. Progent still provides technical support for Cisco's PIX Series firewalls to help you with maintenance and management and Progent can also help you assess if you should migrate to next generation firewall technology from Cisco. Progent's Cisco technology experts can help your company design and implement a smooth upgrade to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls following leading practices.
Online Support SCCM 2016 and Windows Server 2016
SCCM 2016 and SQL Server 2016 Professional
System Center Configuration Manager 2016 automates application and device deployment at scale, streamlines security and compliance settings control, keeps track of network resources, guards against corporate data leakage, provides network health reporting, allows safe end-user self service, and delivers a single point of control for managing mixed-operating system networks based on on-premises, cloud, or hybrid deployment topologies. Progent's Microsoft-certified SCCM 2016 consulting team and Azure cloud integration experts can assist businesses of any size with any aspect of designing, installing, using and repairing a System Center 2016 Configuration Manager solution for on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid environments.
NetApp MetroCluster Disaster Recovery Consultant Services
24x7x365 NetApp MetroCluster Design Specialists
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery platform that combines array-based storage clustering along with synchronous replication to deliver rapid, zero RPO disaster recovery between datacenters that are up to 300km apart from each other. Progent's team of veteran IT consultants can help you to design, deploy, manage, upgrade, test and repair a disaster recovery system based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to choose a topology for your MetroCluster deployment that meets your technical needs and budget. Progent can ensure you follow best practices for installing your MetroCluster solution by providing guidance with procedures such as assigning disk pools and shelf IDs, determining aggregate layout, setting up volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, provisioning Cisco and Brocade switches, designing a tiebreaker mechanism, designing a TCP/IP configuration replication network, and verifying your DR system to verify adherence with information assurance standards and government requirements.
Top Ranked Altaro VM Backup and vSphere Technology Consulting Services
Remote Troubleshooting Altaro VM Backup Immutable Cloud Storage
Altaro VM Backup software from Hornetsecurity offers small and mid-size organizations a reliable and affordable platform for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines. Altaro VM Backup can be deployed in local, offsite, multi-site, and cloud-hosted architectures and also supports low-cost backup to Azure Block Blob storage. Altaro VM Backup protects against ransomware by leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage. This produces tamper-proof data that cannot be modified by anyone including administrators or root users. Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and offers a broad array of remote or onsite services to help you to plan, install, manage and troubleshoot a comprehensive backup/restore solution based on Altaro VM Backup software. With ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, Progent offers a fully managed backup/restore service powered by on Altaro VM Backup software.
SQL Server 2012 Migration Professional
SQL Server 2012 xVelocity Support and Setup
Progent offers the expertise of Microsoft-certified consultants and seasoned software programmers, database administrators, project managers, Cisco-certified network engineers, disaster recovery specialists, and certified security consultants to assist your business to evaluate the likely benefits of SQL Server 2012 for your business, install pilot systems at your site or at Progent's lab, design and execute out a smooth migration to SQL Server 2012 from previous versions of SQL Server or from other RDBMS platforms, and configure an efficient and secure network infrastructure that helps you maximize the strategic benefit of SQL Server 2012.
Building-to-building Wireless Support
Cisco Aironet On-site Support
Progent's wireless engineers can help small organizations design, select, evaluate, configure and support secure building-to-building wireless bridges that integrate transparently into your existing network while offering a degree of security that matches or excels wired interfaces. Progent provides experience in wireless network technology from Cisco Aironet and Meraki, Proxim, and additional small business wireless vendors and can show you how to identify and install the wireless connectivity technology that align best your company requirements.
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