Thursday, April 21, 2011

Chapter 6: Cisco Switches

Cisco ME 3400E Series Ethernet Access Switches $2495

Access switches help you to improve availability, flexibility, manageability, and security for business services.  The Cisco ME 3400E Series is built for service providers to deliver advanced Ethernet business services to their customers. The Cisco ME 3400 Series also provides high service availability, flexible and differentiated services along with the ability to mange and troubleshoot remotely.


Some additional enhancements include redundant and modular field replaceable fan and power supply unit for service availability. Traffic loopback and dying gasp for loss of power for service manageability. The METROACCESS image also offers advanced QoS , rate limiting, and comprehensive security features.

Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches $3300


This is the industry's most widely deployed modular platform. Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches delivers a high-performance and very secure user experience with a focus on lowering your total cost of ownership. Performance and Density, 848 Gbps fabric with 48 Gbps per slot delivers a 2.6x increase in performance over previous generation. Its the Industry’s highest PoEP port density with up to 240 ports of full 30 Watt PoEP.  The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches are also have backward and forward compatibility.

 

 

Cisco Catalyst 6509-E Switch $10,000

The 9-slot Cisco Catalyst 6509-E Switch provides high port densities that are ideal for many wiring closet, distribution, and core network as well as data center deployments.    
The Cisco Catalyst 6509-E provides maximum uptime with redundancy and rapid (1 to 3 seconds) stateful failover across supervisor engines. It supports modular Cisco IOS Software to minimize unplanned downtime through self-healing processes and simplifies software changes through subsystem in-service software upgrades.