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The Catalyst line of modular and fixed-configuration managed switches provides performance and intelligence at the access, distribution, and backbone areas of converged voice, HD video, and data networks for businesses that range in size from small businesses and branches to global enterprises and SPs. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE consultants can provide remote and on-premises support for Catalyst family switches to assist you to plan an efficient infrastructure that addresses your specific business requirements, set up proof-of-concept testing, install Catalyst switches, establish and verify a sound security and compliance plan, automate system management and performance tracking, provide troubleshooting and support services, optimize switch performance, and configure Catalyst's high-availability (HA) technology for near-zero downtime.

Progent can assist you to manage and troubleshoot your legacy Catalyst switches or migrate efficiently to the latest versions of Catalyst switches following leading practices to ensure that you receive the maximum return from your investment in your network.

The demand for smart, high-speed switching is the result 0f a confluence of fairly new computing trends whose net impact is a virtual avalanche of data:

• Cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) networking and a consequent requirement for intensive network virtualization
• The proliferation of personal endpoints
• Data guzzling HD video applications
• Social business technologies
• The rise of Big Data in enterprise data analytics
• Ever more sophisticated cyberattacks like ransomware

Cisco's latest lineup of Catalyst switches are best suited for the distribution and core layers layers of enterprise campus environments where office employees must be provided for by offering unvarying high speed, strict user access control, careful segmentation, application awareness, and wired/wireless convergence. Catalyst switches are designed to meet the demand for performance and control with capabilities that include high-density 10G/40G/100G support, switching performance more than 25T per appliance, a comprehensive catalog of tools such as Easy Virtual Network (EVN) to facilitate the creation of virtual networks, Virtual Switching System technology for stateful interchassis failover with subsecond virtual switch restoration and "five nines" (99.999%) uptime, IPv4 and IPv6 capability, AVC to optimize system utilization, and sophisticated QoS capabilities for critical traffic control.

Cisco Catalyst switches allow organizations of all sizes to benefit from incorporating intelligent switching and routing services into their network infrastructure, deploying an environment that can handle real-time requirements, expand to support expected growth, protect sensitive information, and differentiate and control processes to enhance network productivity.

Catalyst 1000 Series Fixed Ethernet Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 1000 Layer 2 network access switches are small form factor, fixed-configuration switches intended for small businesses and branch offices with as many as 250 workers and with little if any in-house IT expertise. Cisco's Catalyst 1000 Series includes fanless models for noiseless operation outside a wiring closet in an office environment. Mounting kits include desktop, wall or shelf mount, standard rack mount, and DIN rail mount. Designed as an easy replacement for Catalyst 2960-L/2960-Plus deployments, the Catalyst 1000 portfolio includes models with 8 to 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports or 24 to 48 Fast Ethernet 10/100M ports.

Catalyst 1000 set up and administration are simple using a web interface or CLI, cybersecurity is enterprise-class, and PoE+ ports with an automatically allocated budget of 740W supports a wide range of Internet of Things (IoT) implementations. Up to eight Catalyst 1000 Gbit Ethernet Series switches can be managed together with single IP. Catalyst 1000 models are line-rate devices, and all are powered by Cisco's familiar IOS operating system software. Quality-of-Service capabilities include egress queues for each port as well as priority queuing to allow wire-speed throughput for time-critical traffic. Catalyst Series 1000 switches also feature SRR service scheduling and Weighted Tail Drop (WTD) congestion management.

Catalyst 9000 Fixed and Modular Managed Switches
The Catalyst 9000 family of switches offers modular and fixed switches and supports all deployment models including access, aggregation, and core switching. The Cisco Catalyst 9000 family includes switches with the right value proposition to connect workers and things in scenarios from small businesses and branches to the largest enterprises. Catalyst 9000 switches can be configured to support any combination of local deployments, private/public clouds, and hybrid network models. Unified management platforms and advanced cybersecurity solutions lower cost of ownership by saving time and protecting vital IT assets. Cisco's 9000X line of switches provide converged switching/routing, delivering the first combination of 400G QSFP-DD ports plus full multigigabit and Power-over-Ethernet ports.

With twice the backplane stacking bandwidth for about half the cost of the legacy Cisco Catalyst 2960-X and 2960-XR switches they are designed to replace, Catalyst 9200 Series switches are a compelling infrastructure upgrade for small branches and midsize campuses. The 9200 product line includes models that support 24 or 48 ports with full PoE+; 80-160 Gbps stacking bandwidth; and Layer 3 features that include OSPF Interior Gateway Protocol, EIGP distance routing protocol, IS-IS, and RIP. Cisco Catalyst 9200 switches are powered by Cisco IOS XE.

The Catalyst 9200 delivers 160-Gbps backplane stacking capacity, supports field-replaceable redundant power supplies and fans, and supports add-in modules with 4x1G, 4x1/10G, 2x25G, or 2x40G uplink. Cisco's Catalyst 9200 Enhanced VN model allows as many as 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 tuning with 8 or 12 multigigabit Ethernet ports as fast as 10G.

Cisco's Catalyst 9300 Series switches are fixed, stackable units for high-density access switching. Key features available with various models in the Catalyst 9300 product line include 1T backplane stacking bandwidth, stackable high-speed fiber, up to 448 multigigabit ports including 288 ports of 90W UPOE+ with an 8-device configuration, line rate IPsec with AES-256 Encryption and speeds as high as 100G, HA fans and power, plus StackPower cables compatible throughout the complete Catalyst 9300 product line.

Powered by Cisco IOS XE, switches in the Catalyst 9300 product line offer automated device provisioning, API-based configuration, granular visibility for close to realtime monitoring, and seamless software patching. 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 cybersecurity is strengthened because Catalyst 9300 Series switches have the ability to host the Cisco Umbrella agent directly. This makes it possible for businesses to customize their DNS policies granularly to prevent BYOD or IoT users from accessing dangerous websites.

The value-priced Cisco Catalyst 9300L switch provides as much as 320G backplane stacking capacity and supports 12 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G ports and 36 10M/100M/1G ports. The 9300L utilizes fixed instead of modular uplink hardware for 4 1G, 4 10G, or 2 40G uplink ports. The Cisco Catalyst 9300 switch offers 480G of stacking performance and supports 48 100M/1G/2.5G/5Gbps Ethernet ports, 24 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10Gbps Ethernet ports, or 48 1G SFP ports. Modular uplink performance supported are 1G, 10G, 25G, or 40G. The top-of-the-line Cisco Catalyst 9300X appliance delivers 1T backplane stacking performance and supports 48 10G port density. The 9300X supports modular uplinks with dual-rate 100G/40G, multirate 25G/10G/1G, or mGig. Cisco 90W UPOE+ supports dense IoT applications. Hardware is available to support 100G IPsec.

Cisco's Catalyst 9400 Series appliances are modular switches based on the Cisco IOS XE operating system and designed for medium-size and large campus access deployments. Offering double the performance and over quadruple the chassis bandwidth as the Catalyst 6500 it is designed to replace, Cisco's Catalyst 9400 portfolio brings switch technology into the modern age of networking impelled 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 dedicated to redundant supervisor cards, making 2, 5, or 8 slots open for line cards. Max bandwidth for each line-card slot is 480 Gbps. Switching capacity can achieve 1.44 Tbps and forwarding performance on Supervisor Module can reach 9 Tbps for the 10-slot chassis. All Catalyst 9400 switches offer 90W UPOE+ on every access port, protected segmentation with Software-Defined Access and N+N/N+1 power redundancy for high availability. Cisco's Catalyst 9400 4-slot switch supports 96 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, 5G/10G mGig ports, or 10G SFP+ ports. The Catalyst 9400 7-slot supports 240 ports, and the Catalyst 9400 10-slot supports 384 ports. All Catalyst 9400 models can provide 2 non-blocking 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP uplinks and 8 non-blocking 10G SFP+ uplinks.

The Catalyst 9500 product line consists of fixed core and edge services switches intended for the enterprise campus. Catalyst 9500 switches are based on Cisco IOS XE and the the family incorporates the first network technology to deliver switching speeds higher than 25 Tbps.

Cisco's Catalyst 9500 appliances deliver up to 6.4 Terabits per second switching performance with forwarding speed up to 2 Bpps. Catalyst 9500 appliances can provide up to 32 nonblocking 100 Gigabit QSFP28 ports, 32 nonblocking 40 Gigabit QSFP+ ports, 48 nonblocking 25G SFP28 ports, or 48 nonblocking 10G ports. You can configure Multichassis EtherChannel (MEC) across StackWise-Virtual members to achieve high resiliency.

Catalyst 9500X appliances can provide up to 25.6 Terabits per second switching performance with up to 2 Billion Packet per Second forwarding capacity. Catalyst 9500X devices support up to 28 nonblocking 40/100 GB QSFP28 ports or 8 nonblocking 40/100/200/400 G QSFP-DD ports. The 9500X line also includes hardware support for line-rate 256-bit 802.1AE MACsec and WAN-MACsec1 data encryption.

Catalyst 9600 Series switches are modular core and distribution appliances for the enterprise campus. The 6-slot 9600 Series chassis using a Catalyst 9600X Series Supervisor delivers switching capacity as high as 25.6 Tbps and can support as many as 256 nonblocking 10/25/50 G ports, 96 nonblocking 40/100G Gigabit ports, or 8 nonblocking 200/400 Gigabit QSFP-Double Density ports. The Catalyst 9600 switch also supports dual-rate 40G/100G and 10G/25G optics. Two chassis slots are reserved for redundant supervisors. You can combine a selection of line cards for core and aggregation deployments. The Catalyst 9600 chassis has a passive backplane, making it possible to replace fan tray, power supplies, and line cards without disruption.

End-of-Life Catalyst Models Still Supported by Progent's Consultants
Progent's Cisco certified consultants have extensive backgrounds delivering online and onsite support expertise for older Catalyst Series switches which have reached End of Life (EOL). These outdated switches often are more expensive to manage and support than current switches, provide lower performance and fewer features, and for some cases can subject businesses to regulatory compliance and even liability risks. Progent's consultants can help you to maintain and repair these older Cisco products and can in addition help you to design and implement seamless upgrades to newer models from the Catalyst family or to devices from the Cisco Nexus line of network switches which build upon Catalyst technology.

Cisco Catalyst Express 500 Switches
Cisco's Catalyst Express 500 and 520 line of Layer 2 switches are designed for businesses with up to 250 employees and provide the dependability, protection, expandability, and features small and mid-sized companies require at an affordable price. Power over Ethernet capability makes it simple to install network devices such as VoIP phones and closed-circuit cameras.

Versions of the Catalyst Express 500 and 520 switches support from 8 to 24 10/100/1000BT ports plus the option of backup power with auto fail-over for extra dependability. Interoperation with Cisco access points helps organizations to build a wireless LAN network rapidly and effectively. The Catalyst Express 500 family offers strong protection against malicious attacks With the Cisco Self-Defending Network technology and Cisco Clean Access agents. Catalyst 2940 Switch
Catalyst 2900 Series fixed-configuration, managed 10/100 Ethernet switches offer fundamental workgroup connectivity for small to midsize companies. These wire-speed desktop switches offer Cisco IOS Software features for simple data, video, and voice services at the network edge. The Cisco Catalyst 2940 Series managed switches are compact, stackable devices featuring 8 Fast Ethernet connections plus one integrated Fast Ethernet or Gbit uplink. The enclosures can be deployed away from the wiring closet in space-constrained locations such as on or under a worker's desk or in a classroom.

Cisco Catalyst 2960-S Switch
The Catalyst 2960-S Series are fixed switches designed for small businesses and branches. Current versions offer either 24 or 48 1Gb Ethernet ports, four 1-Gigabit or two 10-Gigabit uplinks, and provide throughput as high as 176 Gbps. Cisco's FlexStack technology allows four 2960-S chassis to be combined in a stack to act as a single switch that provides 40 Gbps of stacking throughput and that cuts administrative expense with one-switch setup. IPv6 FHS capability guards networks against IPv6 address interception and other attacks.

Cisco Catalyst 3560 Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 3560 Series is a line of non-modular switches that includes IEEE 802.3af and Cisco Power over Ethernet (PoE) capability in 10/100 Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet implementations. Cisco's Catalyst 3560 Series switch is an ideal Layer 2 switch for small enterprise LAN access or branch-office environments, combining both 10/100/1000 and Power over Ethernet (PoE) configurations for high productivity while streamlining the deployment of vital technology such a VoIP, Wi-Fi, video surveillance, and building management systems. IT managers can activate network-wide smart services such as quality of service (QoS), rate limiting, access control lists (ACLs), multicast management, and high-performance IP routing while maintaining the simplicity of conventional network switching.

The Catalyst 3560 Series switch offers a robust array of capabilities that allow for network expandability and higher resilience through IP routing plus a full complement of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) improvements designed to increase availability in a Layer 2 LAN. Enhancements to the conventional STP Protocol, including PVST+, Uplink Fast, and Port Fast, combined with enhancements such as Flex Links interfaces, improve network efficiency. Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus allows for Layer 2 traffic balancing on backup links to exploit the extra bandwidth associated with a redundant design.

Important technologies including Open Shortest Path First (OPSF), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol, BGP, and static routing increase system scale; PIM increases utilization of network resources; and Virtual Route Forwarding Lite secures network traffic.

Cisco Catalyst 3750 Family Switches
For midsized businesses and enterprise branches, Cisco's Catalyst 3750 Series eases deployment of unified technologies and accommodates changing competitive needs by offering setup versatility, support for converged network traffic, and management-free set up of smart network functions. Also, Cisco's Catalyst 3750 Series switch is engineered for high-volume 1000 Ethernet deployments and incorporates a wide range of switches that meet the access, aggregation, and backbone-interface demands of small or midsized deployments.

The Cisco Catalyst 3750 switch has the IP Base image or the IP Services image. The IP Base image functions include industry-leading quality of service (QoS), rate-management, access control lists (ACLs), and simple static and Routing Information Protocol (RIP) routing support. The IP Services image provides a richer set of enterprise-grade features, such as sophisticated built-in IP unicast/multicast routing.

Cisco StackWise technology is a stacking architecture optimized for Gigabit Ethernet. This technology is designed to react to additions, deletions, and relocations while providing consistent operation. Cisco StackWise technology combines as many as nine individual switches into one functional device, using custom stack-interface cables and stacking utilities. Any of the switches can be any combination of Cisco's Catalyst 3750 Series switches and the 3750-E Series. The stack behaves as an individual switching unit that is directed by a control switch, selected from one of the member switches. The master switch automatically builds and keeps current all the switching and optional routing tables. A running stack can accommodate new devices or delete existing devices without service interruption.

Catalyst 2960 Series Switches and 3560-CX Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 2960-CX is a fixed-port switch that is low-profile, fanless, power efficient, and includes a variety of mounting options. The device incorporates eight 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports and two Gigabit Ethernet uplinks and has an option for Power over Ethernet (PoE). Cisco's Catalyst 3560-CX appliance is a fixed-configuration managed switch packaged in a sleek, noiseless and energy-efficient enclosure that can be mounted virtually anywhere convenient. Models are available with 8 or 12 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports or with six 1-GE ports plus 2 multigigabit Ethernet ports. Up to four uplinks are available, and Power over Ethernet (PoE) is also available.

Cisco's Catalyst 2960-L line includes value-priced fixed-configuration managed switches designed for branch offices, retail venues, and other environments where space is at a premium. Catalyst 2900-L compact switches include 8 to 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports and either 2 or 4 Small Form-Factor Pluggable uplink ports. PoE support saves space and fan-free design for the 8- models eliminates noise. RJ-45 connectors support 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-T SFP-ports.

Catalyst 2960-X and Catalyst 2960-XR Series switches improve on the 2690-S line of switches by delivering switching performance as high as 216 Gbps and supporting Cisco's FlexStack-Plus stacking technology by means of a hot-swappable module that can combine 8 switches in a stack with 80 Gbps of stacking performance. Catalyst 2900 family switches also work with NetFlow-Lite for application visibility and control. Cisco's Catalyst 2960-XR Series switch is capable of Layer 3 dynamic routing, offering the simplicity of using a single device for Layer 2 and Layer 3 routing.

Cisco Catalyst 3650 and Catalyst 3850 Switches
Catalyst 3650 and Catalyst 3850 switches are fixed, stackable network access devices based on Cisco's IOS XE operating system and featuring full wireless controller capability that lets you converge wired and wireless networks on a one device managed by one operating system. Cisco offers models with either 24 or 48 built-in 1Gb Ethernet ports with Power over Ethernet plus (PoE+), four 1GE or four 10-GB Ethernet uplinks, and capacity for up to 9 switches in a FlexStack stack. All models provide modular Quality of Service, stateful switchover for maximum uptime, support in software for IPv4 and IPv6 routing, multicast, and enhanced security.

Since wireless data traffic is present at the Catalyst 3000 Series switch, network managers can identify and assign priorities to wireless data with Cisco's Flexible NetFlow (FNF) solution along with sophisticated Quality of Service features for a better wireless user experience and quicker problem mediation. Fast Ethernet switching supports the high-bandwidth called for by the new 802.11ac Wave 2 Wi-Fi standard on currently in-place cabling solutions. (To find out about Progent's support for Cisco's 802.11ac Aironet Wi-Fi products, and Cisco's Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, visit Configuration and Troubleshooting Consulting Services for Cisco Wireless Technology.)

The Cisco Catalyst 3650 Series switch delivers stacking throughput as high as 160 Gbps and supports up to 25 wireless access points and 1000 wireless clients per switch or stack. The Catalyst 3850 switch delivers stacking performance of 480 Gbps and supports up to 50 wireless APs and 2000 Wi-Fi clients per switch or stack. Cisco Catalyst 3850 SFP Fiber Switches incorporate 12 or 24 1G fiber data ports at line rate on every port, providing long distance connections, enhanced security, and an identical wired and wireless experience.

Catalyst 4500-E Series and Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches
Catalyst 4500-E and and Catalyst 4500-X Series switches are intended for campus and distribution environments where space for infrastructure hardware is at a premium. Running Cisco's IOS XE operating system, the Catalyst 4500-E and Catalyst 4500-X product lines simplify virtualization by supporting Cisco's EVN and VSS solutions. Network virtualization makes it possible to segment a hardware network into multiple virtual networks whose data planes and control planes are logically separate. This makes possible the high resource utilization, security and compliance, recoverability, and ease of management needed for Cloud computing or other situations where a single resource pool must be shared by applications and services that need to run in total isolation from one another. EVN streamlines the task of creating virtual networks and scales to 32 VNs for each switch. Easy Virtual Network incorporates features of Multi-virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) and includes additional technologies including VNET Trunks 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 platforms to produce non-stop VNs with optimized traffic load balancing.

Catalyst 4500-E Series Switches
The Supervisor Engine 8-E for the Catalyst 4500-E switch has an integrated wireless controller that supports Cisco's Unified Access solution for wired/wireless convergence. The Supervisor Engine 8-E is the first Cisco Catalyst supervisor to enable wired as well as wireless services on a single platform based on IOS XE software. Technologies included are Cisco's FNF solution for application visibility across wired and wireless networks, TrustSec wired/wireless security, identical Quality of Service for wired and Wi-Fi clients, plus the extension of Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover (NSF/SSO) to cover Wi-Fi traffic for world-class availability.

Available in chassis that have from three to 10 slots, Catalyst 4500-E switches can handle as many as 384 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports, 193 Gigabit Ethernet non-blocking fiber connections, 96 10-Gigabit Ethernet fiber connections, and eight 10-Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports. Cisco's Supervisor Engine 8-E provides as much as 928 Gbps of wired access for each system and 20 Gbps of wireless termination performance. 50 Wi-Fi APs and 2000 Wi-Fi clients can be supported on each switch, and 250 APs and 4000 wireless clients are managed in a two-switch installation without a separate wireless network controller.

Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Switches
Cisco's Catalyst 4500-X Series switches are fixed 10GE aggregation switches that can deliver as much as 800 Gbps of backplane switching performance per chassis. The Catalyst 4500-X supports as many as 32 10GE ports on the baseboard and eight additional 10GE ports on the optional expansion module for a maximum of up to 40 non-blocking 10-Gigabit Ethernet connections. Eight 10GE uplinks can be added with a separate module. In addition to providing zero-downtime operation and simple management, Cisco's virtual switching system solution on Catalyst 4500-X switches provides higher system throughput of up to 1.6 Tbps by enabling all possible bandwidth across redundant Catalyst 4500-X Series switches. Other features include Cisco's FNF technology for capacity planning, Cisco TrustSec security, and fast, hardware-based IPv6 forwarding.

Catalyst 6500 Series and Catalyst 6800 Series Switches
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco Catalyst 6800 switches are enterprise campus backbone platforms that share the field-proven DNA of the Catalyst 6500 family of switches, which were introduced over a dozen years ago and have been continually enhanced since then. Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series and Catalyst 6800 Series switches provide the same general features and operation, and the modular Catalyst 6807-XL accepts the Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 2T and its family of compatible line cards and modules. This mutual compatibility and commitment to ongoing enhancement protects your technology investment and enables you to update your network backbone with minimal business disruption or IT staff training.

Shared features of Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco Catalyst 6800 modular switches equipped with Cisco's Supervisor Engine 2T include Cisco's Identity Services Engine for simple, single-point control to put in place consistent policy throughout a distributed network, VSS capability for 99.999% availability via multi-level switchover, and the Cisco Campus Locator/ID Separation Protocol to facilitate client roaming and mobility and to simplify virtualization and migration to IPv6. Other virtual networking features to partition specific client groups and serve the special security and QoS policy needs of every group include Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN, full MPLS, Easy Virtual Network, VRF-aware technology for Network Address Translation NetFlow, IPv6 over IPv4 GRE Tunnel Protection, and Layer 2 extensions with virtual private LAN services. For converged wired/wireless environments, the Wireless Services Module 2 (WiSM2) controller Catalyst 6500 and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series modular switches supports 1000 wireless access points and 15,000 wireless clients.

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

The value-priced Cisco Catalyst 6503-E has a 4 rack unit (4RU) form factor, holds 3 slots, and delivers up to 180 Gbps of switching performance on each slot. The Catalyst 6503-E supports up to 97 10/100/1000 Ethernet connections, up to 99 Gigabit Ethernet fiber ports, 34 10GE ports, and 8 40GE access ports.

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

Catalyst 6800 Series Switches
Catalyst 6800 Series switches are campus backbone switches intended to deliver 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 backbones. The Catalyst 6880-X supports up to 2 Tbps capacity and includes four slots for plug-in port cards. The maximum port concentration per chassis is 80 1 Gigabit Ethernet connections or 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports or as many as 20 40-Gigabit Ethernet connections. With VSS, a two-chassis system can provide 4 Tbps performance and handle up to 158 1 Gigabit Ethernet connections or 10-Gigabit Ethernet access ports or as many as 20 40GE ports.

The modular Catalyst 6807-XL switch has a 10 RU chassis that has 7 expansion slots and supports standard Supervisor Engine 2T line cards and modules. (Two slots are for the Supervisor Engine and the other five are for expansion modules.) The Catalyst 6807-XL can deliver up to 880 Gbps of switching throughput on each slot and 11.4 Tbps of full-duplex switching bandwidth while handling up to 240 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports or 1GE fiber ports, up to 80 10GE connections or 20 40GE ports. an 6807-XL system configured with VSS can handle 22.8 Tbps of switching performance, 480 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports or 1GE fiber ports, up to 160 10GE access ports or 40 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports.

Ways That Progent Can Assist Your Business with Catalyst Series Switches
Progent can provide the remote or onsite support services of CCIE-certified consultants who have extensive backgrounds delivering Catalyst switch support for small and medium sized organizations, branches, enterprises, data centers, Cloud networks, and SPs. Progent's practice areas include Cisco's Catalyst and Nexus lines of smart switches and with Cisco's IOS, IOS-XR and NX-OS control software. Support services offered by Progent's experts for Cisco Catalyst switches include pilot testing and validation, system analysis and monitoring, network architecture design, migrations and project management, virtualization, wired and wireless unification, network management, capacity planning, troubleshooting, disaster recovery and business continuity preparedness, and information security and compliance testing and remediation.

Progent offers deep expertise with industry standards and with Cisco-owned technologies associated with switching and routing such as Border Gateway Protocol, MPLS traffic engineering, Protocol Independent Multicast, VPNs, Spanning-Tree Protocol, virtual LANs, Cisco FabricPath, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP), VRRP, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Virtual Switching System (VSS), and Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP). Progent's network consultants also have experience with key networking technologies including TCP/IP protocols, IPv4/IPv6, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol, Routing Information Protocol (RIP), and IGMP. Progent's CISSP-ISSAP certified network security consultants can assist you to develop an enterprise-wide security strategy and deploy Cisco Catalyst switches so that they provide maximum support for your security policies.

In case you need the highest available Ethernet density or sub-microsecond latency switches for an enterprise-class data center, Progent can assist your organization to analyze, design, and manage a migration to Cisco's Nexus family of switches. For information about Progent's consulting and support capabilities for Cisco's Nexus Series switches, see Nexus Switch consulting and support services available from Progent. Progent can also assist you to integrate Catalyst data center switches with Cisco Meraki distribution switches. (See Cisco Meraki switch integration consultants.)

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