Cisco Boosts Catalyst Switch Portfolio
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, Feb 2, 2007

Cisco has recently expanded its catalyst switch portfolio that offers twice the Power over Ethernet (PoE) support as its earlier offerings and also come bundled with expanded 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplink options.

According to the company, these new offerings are expected to offer highly secure wired and wireless user access.

Cisco Catalyst 3750-E and 3560-E Series switches are in its enterprise-class line of 10/100/1000 wiring closet switches with 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks and full PoE configurations. These switches have been designed to facilitate the deployment of highly secure converged applications.

Featuring StackWise Plus, the Catalyst 3750-E Series is backward-compatible with StackWise and can be integrated with Catalyst 3750 Series Switches, the Cisco Catalyst 3750 Integrated Wireless LAN Controller, and Cisco Integrated services routers.

Cisco's catalyst 3560 and catalyst 2960 compact switches are small form-factor switches with Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet and PoE configurations designed for meeting rooms, and other wiring and space-constrained environments.

Its Catalyst 4500 series full image In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) apparently helps in ensuring business continuity by enabling a full Cisco IOS Software upgrade without downtime.

Meanwhile, its Redundant Power System (RPS) 2300 offer users uninterrupted network services in the event of an internal power-supply failure for Cisco PoE switches.

The company has also boosted its power supplies on its Catalyst 6500 series chassis to power as many as 420 ports in a chassis with PoE,