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Featured Switches Products
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Campus LAN – Core Switches
Meet the demands of a global, mobile workforce and customer base with switches that feature a highly secure end-to-end architecture, integrated services, and validated designs.
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Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series
- Simplifies operations, reduces network costs, and maximizes existing investments
- Increases productivity by overcoming barriers of location, distance, and time
- Automates network services, energy control and minimizes total cost of ownership
- Delivers comprehensive features for operational management, integrated services, QoS, and, high availability
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Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series
- Supports hardware acceleration for Layer-2 through -4 intelligent network services
- Delivers high-availability with In-Service Software Upgrade and redundant supervisors
- Integrates simultaneous IPv4 and IPv6 support
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Cisco Catalyst 4900M Series
- Supports up to10-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
- Provides up to 320 Gbps forwarding capacity
- Supports critical routing protocols and IPv6 in hardware
- Features hot-swappable, redundant power supply and fans
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Campus LAN – Access Switches
Adapt your network to meet evolving business requirements and optimize new application deployments with Cisco access switches.
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Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series
- Supports hardware acceleration for Layer-2 through -4 intelligent network services
- Delivers high-availability with In-Service Software Upgrade and redundant supervisors
- Includes Power over Ethernet Plus for next-generation high-power devices
- Integrates simultaneous IPv4 and IPv6 support
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Cisco Catalyst 3750-X Series Switches New Product
- Stackable fixed-configuration switches for campus and branches
- Maximized investment protection during deployment of highly secure converged applications
- High-availability and operational efficiency with StackPower
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Cisco Catalyst 3560-X Series New Product
- Standalone fixed-configuration switches for campus and branches
- Maximize investment protection during deployment of highly secure converged applications
- Catalyst Smart Operations for automating infrastructure deployment
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Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series Switches Product Updates
- Stackable and standalone switches with Cisco FlexStack for delivering enhanced LAN services for mid-sized enterprise and branch office networks
- Layer 2 switching with intelligent Layer 2-4 services
- Power over Ethernet Plus for next generation high power devices
- Catalyst Smart Operations for automating infrastructure deployment
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Data Center Switches
Build a data center network based on switches that promote Infrastructure scalability, operational continuity, and transport flexibility.
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Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
- Provides network foundation supporting Cisco Data Center 3.0
- Delivers 10 Gigabit Ethernet and unified fabric
- Supports core, aggregation, and some access-layer implementations
- Features state-of-the-art Cisco NX-OS operating system
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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
- Consolidates data center and protects investment assets
- Decreases the total cost of ownership by simplifying the data center infrastructure
- Increases business agility with easier, faster, and more pervasive data center virtualization
- Enhances business resilience with greater operational continuity
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Cisco Nexus 1000V Virtual Switch
- Integrates directly with server hypervisors
- Delivers virtual machine-aware network services
- Accelerates server virtualization deployments and simplifies management
- Reduces total cost of ownership by providing operating consistency and network visibility
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Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series
- Simplifies operations, reduces network costs, and maximizes existing investments
- Increases productivity by overcoming barriers of location, distance, and time
- Automates network services, energy control and minimizes total cost of ownership
- Delivers comprehensive features for operational management, integrated services, QoS, and, high availability
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Cisco Catalyst 4900 Series
- Supports up to10-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
- Provides up to 320 Gbps forwarding capacity
- Supports critical routing protocols and IPv6 in hardware
- Features hot-swappable, redundant power supply and fans
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Service Provider – Aggregation Switches
Meet the challenges of next-generation residential services with Cisco Carrier Ethernet switches providing the aggregation and multiplexing layer between access and edge layers.
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Cisco ME 3800X Series
- Facilitates broadband, mobile, and Carrier Ethernet aggregation
- Offers a full-featured platform for remote central office and lower-density aggregation
- Offers a small footprint, low power consumption, and a high service scale
- Provides exceptional service: Layer 2 VPN, Layer 3 VPN, and mobile services with Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE)
- Enhances subscriber experiences with large buffers and hierarchical quality of service
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Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series
- Simplifies operations, reduces network costs, and maximizes existing investments
- Increases productivity by overcoming barriers of location, distance, and time
- Automates network services, energy control and minimizes total cost of ownership
- Delivers comprehensive features for operational management, integrated services, QoS, and, high availability
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Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series
- Supports hardware acceleration for Layer-2 through -4 intelligent network services
- Delivers high-availability with In-Service Software Upgrade and redundant supervisors
- Includes Power over Ethernet Plus for next-generation high-power devices
- Integrates simultaneous IPv4 and IPv6 support
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Cisco ME 4900 Series
- Addresses next-generation residential services
- Integrates into small central offices with limited rack space
- Meets the requirements of high-performance Carrier Ethernet networks
- Offers triple-play service support (voice, video, and data)
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Service Provider– Ethernet Access Switches
Implement class-leading switches featuring application intelligence, unified services, nonstop communications, virtualization, integrated security, and simplified manageability.
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Cisco ME 3600X Series
- Facilitates access deployments that require the flexibility of a "pay-as-you-grow" service model
- Simplifies field upgrades from 1 Gigabit Ethernet to 10 Gigabit Ethernet
- Efficiently extends MPLS to the access layer
- Delivers premium services with hierarchical quality of service, large buffers, and a large number of queues
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Cisco Catalyst 3750 Metro Series
- Enhances intelligence at the metro Ethernet edge
- Delivers differentiated services
- Offers cost-effective path from current to future service requirements
- Supports hierarchical QoS and traffic shaping, tunneling, and VLAN mapping
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Cisco ME 3400 Series
- Reduces total cost of ownership and operating expenses
- Simplifies deployment with compact form factor
- Promotes continuous switch operation
- Helps shield subscribers from malicious users and traffic
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Cisco ME 3400E Series
- Supports deployment of advanced Ethernet business services
- Provides tools to deliver high service availability
- Offers path for flexible and differentiated services
- Enhances network services security against malicious users
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Cisco ME 4900 Series
- Addresses next-generation residential services
- Integrates into small central offices with limited rack space
- Meets the requirements of high-performance Carrier Ethernet networks
- Offers triple-play service support (voice, video, and data)
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Cisco ME 6500 Series
- Delivers high performance, reliability, and QoS for small and remote offices
- Addresses triple-play implementations supporting voice, video, and data services
- Promotes adoption of VPN services for ETTH, ETTB, and DSLAM deployments
- Extends advanced MPLS, QoS, multicast, and IPv6 features into Ethernet access and aggregation networks
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All Switching Products
To meet current and future network needs, Cisco designs switches for a wide range of solutions, including Cisco Borderless Networks, data center virtualization and small business.
ATM Switches
Blade Switches
Connected Grid Switches
Data Center Switches
EnergyWise
Industrial Ethernet Switches
InfiniBand Switches
LAN Network Management
LAN Switches - Access
LAN Switches - Core
LAN Switches - Small Business
Service Provider Switches - Aggregation
Service Provider Switches - Ethernet Access
WAN Switches
MGX Switches
Switching Solutions
Cisco switches deliver highly secure, scalable solutions built on class-leading features, standards-based technologies, and cost-effective designs. Whether equipping a small office, multisite enterprise, data center, or service provider, Cisco switches offer the flexibility, performance, and security to meet the challenges of rapidly evolving network requirements.
Campus LAN Solutions
Deliver solutions for a new type of workspace experience by helping to securely and reliably connect anyone, anywhere, using any device to any resource over Cisco Borderless Networks.
EnergyWise Technology
Transform the way you work, live, play, and learn in new and more sustainable ways. Cisco innovations help address environmental challenges and reduce carbon footprints.
Network Virtualization Solutions
Reduce capital and operational expenses, while maintaining campus design security, scalability, manageability, and availability.
Video
Transform business operations with multimedia applications. Cisco switching solutions help optimize, secure, and scale delivery of the high-quality experiences you need.
IPv6
Adopt IPv6 technology to help enable an architecture that accommodates the rapidly expanding Internet of users, applications, and appliances.
Industry LAN Solutions
Learn how Cisco Catalyst switches can make a difference for your organization by powering connectivity, helping secure the network, and increasing the flexibility of your workforce.
Data Center Solutions
Reduce costs, accelerate business growth, and extend infrastructure longevity by transforming your data center into a more efficient, responsive, and resilient asset.
Data Center Virtualization
Bring network, compute/storage, and virtualization platforms closer together to optimize flexibility, visibility, and policy enforcement within virtualized data centers.
Infrastructure Consolidation
Help ensure increased asset utilization and cost savings while promoting more flexible and efficient use of data center facilities through standardization and asset consolidation.
Service Provider Solutions
Address requirements for services from video delivery to mobile Internet connectivity with Cisco switches providing high-performance paths for more secure and efficient communications.
Carrier Ethernet
Global IP traffic is growing exponentially, bringing in the “zettabyte era.” Implement Cisco carrier-class Ethernet switches to support these rapidly expanding requirements.
Wireline Carriers
Adopt comprehensive network infrastructure and IPTV solutions to help deliver a new generation of dynamic, personalized services and media experiences.
Network Infrastructure
Enhance your network infrastructure with Cisco solutions that let you deliver personalized, next-generation services and media experiences anywhere, anytime.
Learn About Switches
At A Glance
Cisco switches work at the core of all networks -- supporting a myriad of high-speed connectivity, application, and communications requirements.
Today’s networks must efficiently and securely transmit bandwidth-intensive data, voice, video, and wireless applications, while adapting to evolving traffic patterns, new services, and the challenge of optimizing application performance.
Cisco switches are designed to facilitate these changes, while helping to ensure the smooth and effective transport of communications on a continuous basis.
Technologies and features inherent to Cisco switches help organizations increase productivity and control costs in three critical areas -- whether those switches are deployed to support campus LAN, data center, or service provider implementations:
- Virtualization: Simplify operations, reduce network costs, and maximize existing investments
- Collaboration: Increase productivity by overcoming barriers of location, distance, and time
- Operations: Automate network services, energy control, and minimize total cost of ownership
Featured Case Study
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Meeting the High-Bandwidth Demands of an Evolving Academia
University of Plymouth uses Cisco switching solutions to provide excellence and innovation in teaching.
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Technology Helps School District Curtail Energy Costs
Cisco solutions help Council Rock School District save millions with network-based control of energy systems.
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School District Transforms Classroom Learning with Wireless Technology
British Columbia’s School District 23 uses network solutions to bring innovative applications into the classroom.
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