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Networking:
Cisco Intros Innovations For
Catalyst Intelligent Switches
Cisco Systems Inc announced continued product innovation with new products
and
capabilities for its Catalyst Intelligent Switching portfolio to address
increasing customer needs for performance, density and integrated intelligent
services.
Being introduced are additional integrated security features and support
for
enhanced manageability and ease-of-deployment with Cisco Smartports for the
entire Catalyst portfolio. In addition, new Catalyst 6500 software
enhancements for several Integrated Advanced Services Modules, a new web-based
management tool for the Catalyst 6500 Integrated Service Modules, a 48-port
SFP fiber-based gigabit Ethernet module, an enhancement to the Cisco
Supervisor 720, a new 10-Slot chassis and Supervisor Engine for the Catalyst
4500, 10Gigabit Ethernet uplink capability for the Catalyst 3750 and new 10
Gigabit Ethernet XENPAK optics that support multi-mode and copper interfaces,
were announced.
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The breadth of the announcements demonstrates Cisco's commitment to highly
secure, intelligent switching architectures that simplify deployment and
manageability, while preserving customer investments and advanced services
options. "To meet evolving business requirements, the enterprise network must
be able to support and manage advanced applications with greater simplicity,"
said Chris Kozup, program director of technology research services at the META
Group. "IT organizations should seek a network infrastructure capable of
providing intelligent services to ensure optimal application performance."
Smartports And Security Enhancements
Now available across the Catalyst product family, Smartports enables fast
and
easy configuration of many Catalyst Intelligent features, such as Quality of
Service (QoS), security and availability. Smartports greatly reduces time and
complexity of advanced feature deployments while enabling customers to take
advantage of Cisco's best-practices and achieving implementation consistency
across multiple switch devices.
Underscoring Cisco's focus on enhancing network security, new Catalyst
integrated security features are now offered across Cisco Catalyst Intelligent
Switching platforms. These capabilities include DHCP snooping, Dynamic ARP
Inspection that helps to prevent DoS and man-in-the-middle attacks, and IP
source guard, which helps prevent IP address theft. Additionally, Cisco
continues to offer significant value-added extensions to the industry-standard
802.1x to provide more granular user-based authentication and network access
control.
Enhancements To Cisco Catalyst 6500 Modular Chassis
New to the Catalyst 6500 are enhancements to four integrated service
modules
including the Content Switching Module, the SSL Services Module, the IPSec VPN
Services Module and the Network Analysis Module 1 and 2. These enhancements,
enabled with software upgrades, provide additional security, application
awareness and visibility of network traffic.
In addition, CiscoView Device Manager (CVDM), a new embedded device
manager,
provides web based, graphical user interface for easy configuration and
management of Catalyst 6500 and integrated services module. CVDM further,
simplifies deployment and manageability of flexible, integrated services
network designs.
The enhancements to the Catalyst 6500 Integrated Service portfolio in
combination with the new 48-port Gigabit Ethernet Module allows for high
levels of throughput required for high-density high performance gigabit
aggregation and data center deployments. These additions combined with the
Supervisor 720 field upgradeable PFC3BXL daughter card, which delivers
enhanced security and increased performance and scalability for the number of
IPv4 and IPv6 routes, extends the deployment of scalable, highly secure and
manageable switch-integrated network services in the datacenter.
Enhancements To Cisco Catalyst 4500 Modular Chassis
The new solutions for the Catalyst 4500 represent the evolutionary design
and
investment protection of the Catalyst modular switching portfolio. The new
Catalyst 4510R, a 10-Slot chassis capable of redundant supervisor engines, now
provides customers with a common architecture for higher port densities of
Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet in a single chassis. Required for the
Catalyst 4510R, the new Supervisor Engine V increases the capacity and
throughput of the Catalyst 4500 and offers new hardware based advanced
features such as Broadcast and Multicast suppression, and support for Q-in-Q
encapsulation. All existing Catalyst 4500 line cards are fully supported in
the new larger capacity 10-Slot chassis and with the Supervisor Engine V.
Supervisor Engine V is also designed to be backwards compatible with the
entire Catalyst 4500 series chassis family, demonstrating the investment
protection of the Catalyst 4500 series architecture.
Enhancements To Cisco Catalyst 3750 Family
The Catalyst 3750 with StackWise technology, is expanding its configuration
options to include a 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplink option. The new Catalyst 3750
switch offers 16-ports of 10/100/1000 and one 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplink and
can be added to any existing Catalyst 3750 stack to enable all ports in the
stack to have access to the 10 GbE uplink. With this new switch, network
managers can utilize existing wiring closet fiber plant to increase uplink
bandwidth of their switching stacks, further enabling Gigabit Ethernet
workgroup deployments.
Enhanced Media Support For 10 Gigabit Ethernet Deployments
To further accelerate the adoption of 10Gigabit Ethernet in the enterprise,
datacenter, grid-computing and server clustering, Cisco is also announcing
support for 10GBASE-CX4, 10 Gigabit Ethernet over Copper technology, and
availability of 10GBASE-LX4 and 10GBASE-SR XENPAK Modules 10 Gigabit Ethernet
over Multi-Mode-Fiber (MMF). These new XENPAK interfaces are supported on the
10 Gigabit Ethernet ports of the Catalyst 6500 and new Catalyst 3750.
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