Cisco™ network switches give you a digital—ready network foundation that is simple, automated, and secure. Your network holds the key to defending your organization. It is critical that your security architecture enable a secure digital network.  It delivers speeds beyond 1 Gigabit on existing Category 5e/6 cables. The technology also supports Power over Ethernet (PoE), PoE+, and Cisco Universal PoE™ (UPOE) so you don’t need to install new electrical circuits to power your access points. Category 5e cables inside buildings that connect switches to wireless access points are limited to just 1—Gigabit speeds. Cisco™ founded the NBASE—T Alliance in 2014 to make it possible to support up to 10 Gbps over installed Category 5e and 6 cables. Use NBASE—T to support 802.11ac Wave 2 today. Multigigabit technology supports PoE, PoE+, and UPOE so you don’t need to install new electrical circuits to power your access points.

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure™ (ACI™) reduces TCO, automates IT tasks, and accelerates data center application deployments. It accomplishes this using a business—relevant software defined networking (SDN) policy model across networks, servers, storage, security, and services. Cisco ACI™ is a comprehensive SDN architecture. This policy based automation solution supports a business relevant application policy language, greater scalability through a distributed enforcement system, and greater network visibility. These benefits are achieved through the integration of physical and virtual environments under one policy model for networks, servers, storage, services, and security. Now you can detect every application in your network and optimize bandwidth with application—aware policies. Cisco AVC™ monitors application performance and troubleshoots issues that arise. It helps you deliver business intent policies across the entire network. And it does all this without additional appliances in a simple and powerful way. Create a true application—aware network. Improve the performance of business critical applications. Employ capacity management for optimal bandwidth use. Cisco AVC™ is available across routers, campus switches, access points, and wireless controllers. See the user guide for more details.

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches

The Cisco Nexus 9000™ Series delivers proven high performance and density, low latency, and exceptional power efficiency in a broad range of compact form factors. Operating in Cisco NX—OS™ Software mode or in Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure™ (ACI) mode, these switches are ideal for traditional or fully automated data center deployments. Broad, open—source tools and support for open standards significantly boost Cisco Nexus 7000™ programmability and SDN capabilities for virtualized and cloud deployments. Only Cisco™ provides 60 Watts UPOE to power downstream devices in a next—generation workspace, including IP phones, IPTVs, surveillance cameras, and virtual desktop clients. The Cisco Nexus 9000™ Series Switches offer both modular (9500 switches) and fixed (9300 switches) 1,10, 40, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) configurations designed to operate in one of two modes. Cisco NX—OS™ mode for traditional architectures and consistency across the Cisco Nexus™ portfolio Cisco ACI™ mode to take full advantage of the policy—focused services and infrastructure automation features of the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure™ (ACI). Programmability—offers an open—object API programmable model for provisioning Layer 2 and 3 features.

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches

Cisco Nexus 7000™ series switches create the network foundation for your next—generation Cisco Unified Fabric™ data center and campus core. Modular switches, including the Cisco Nexus 7000™ and Cisco 7700™ series, deliver a comprehensive Cisco NX—OS™ feature set and open source programmable tools for software—defined network (SDN) deployments. They offer high—density 10, 40, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet with application awareness and performance analytics. Technologies that you can support include Cisco Remote Integrated Service Engine™ (RISE). Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation™ (DFA). Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization™ (OTV). Cisco FabricPath™. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). Cisco™ Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP). Cisco IOS™ Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director™ (ITD). Create the network foundation for a next—generation Unified Fabric data center. The modular Cisco Nexus™ 7000 and 7700 switches deliver a comprehensive Cisco NX—OS™ feature set and open—source programmable tools for software—defined networking (SDN) deployments. They offer high—density 10, 40, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet with application awareness and performance analytics.

Cisco Catalyst 4500E Switches

Industry—leading modular access switches, Cisco Catalyst 4500E™ series switches with Supervisor 8—E™ offer exceptional scalability and comprehensive features to meet current and future network demands. This unit can scale up to 384 Gigabit copper ports, 200 Gigabit fiber ports, or 104 10—Gigabit ports in non—virtual switching system (VSS) mode. Offers 116 Universal Power of Ethernet (UPOE) (60 W), 240 PoE+ (30 W), and 384 PoE (15 W) with 9000 W power supply. Delivers up to 928 Gbps system bandwidth and nonblocking 48 Gbps per slot. Has eight nonblocking 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks with a field—programmable gate array to support next—generation protocols. Get up to 928 Gbps bandwidth, non—blocking 48 Gbps per slot, and up to 9000W power supply through PoE ports. Accelerate business growth and improve efficiency. Cisco Catalyst 4500E™ series switches are the foundation for Cisco Enterprise Networks™ and are the industry’s most widely deployed modular platform for campus access and distribution deployments. Now with the Cisco Supervisor 8—E™ and Supervisor 8L—E™, this series offers wired and wireless convergence.

Cisco Catalyst 3560–CX Switches

More powerful than the Cisco 2960—CX™, the Cisco 3560—CX™ PoE switch offers Layer 3 switching, double the PoE capacity, up to 240W, 8 or 12 Gigabit Ethernet ports, Cisco™ multigigabit technology so you can use existing cat 5e/6 cabling and save money, with its setup that allows for shorter cable runs from the switch, new devices can easily join the network, shorter cables reduce the need for expensive and inflexible cabling, and support IP connections for devices with PoE+. You don’t need to install new electrical circuits to power your access points, IP phones, video endpoints, and other devices. A compact, PoE switch you can use anywhere. When you need a small, powerful switch, the Cisco 3560—CX™ is ideal. You can extend enterprise class services to wherever you want, far from the wiring closet. It’s easy to configure, quiet, and fits where you need it, like in flexible workspaces, hospital rooms, shops, and classrooms. And you can use it to create new business opportunities in the Internet of Things (IoT). Converged wired and wireless access—Cisco Catalyst Supervisor 8—E™ extends wired features to wireless, including infrastructure, resiliency, quality of service (QoS), and scalability.

Features And Benefits

Uses Cisco NX—OS™ API for easy to use web—based programmatic access. Simplifies infrastructure management through integration with DevOps automation tools. Visit DevNet Community for programmability resources. Scalability—provides up to 60 Tbps of nonblocking performance with less than 5—microsecond latency. Features up to 2304 10 Gbps, 576 40 Gbps, or 128 100 Gbps Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet ports. Offers wire—speed gateway, bridging, routing, and Cisco Border Gateway Protocol Control Plane™ for. Virtual Extensible LAN (BGP EVPN VXLAN). High availability—has fully redundant and hot—swappable components. Improves Reliability—features software patching for continued operations and performance with a mix of third—party and Cisco ASIC™s performance. Provides extensibility through a Route Processor Module application package, Linux containers, and. Broadcom™ and Linux™ shell access. One common set of network capabilities and context—aware intelligence work across wired and wireless networks. Campus LAN—core and distribution switches—scale network performance and reliability with industry—leading network services, integrated service modules, and validated design guides.