Cisco Catalyst Switch Guide

Cisco Catalyst Switches Scalable, intelligent LAN switching for campus, branch, and data center networks of all sizes.

This is your guide to Cisco? Catalyst? switches, the industry’s most advanced and versatile portfolio of modular and fixed-configuration LAN switches.

Individually, these switches offer the performance and features required for virtually any deployment, from small workgroups and wiring closets to corporate data centers and network cores. W orking together, they are even more powerful, delivering intelligent services from the wiring closet to the core, protecting, optimizing, and growing your network as your business needs evolve.

Over the past 20 years, networks have transformed the way people live, work, and play, enhancing and accelerating communication in countless ways. Y et each new benefit comes at a price. The proliferation of powerful desktop computers, bandwidth-intensive applications, and new devices, such as wireless access points, IP phones, and video surveillance has left networks—and network managers—looking for holistic and simple solutions to their business challenges.

Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader in networking systems for organizations of every size, offers an architectural approach to networking that makes it easy for organizations to adapt and grow. As part of the foundation of the Services Oriented Network Architecture, Cisco Catalyst switches provide the application intelligence, unified network services, integrated security, non-stop communications, virtualization, and operational manageability needed for today’s most valuable converged network services, including networked applications, IP voice and video, wireless access, and other demanding applications.