Cisco Expands Gigabit and Wiring Closet Solutions with Catalyst 4000 and Catalyst 2948G.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 1998-- New Modular and Fixed Wiring Closet The central distribution or servicing point for cables in a network. See MDF and wire center. Solutions Enable Wire-Speed 10/100/1000 Switching With Features, Management and Network Services Consistent With the Catalyst 5500 Series Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ), today announced two new additions to Cisco's Catalyst(R) family of intelligent solutions that are being targeted at the wiring closet: the Catalyst 4000 and the Catalyst 2948G. Utilizing the same software as the Catalyst 5500 Series, these new platforms extend the investment protection provided throughout Catalyst solutions and offer network managers low overall cost of ownership. The two new members of the Catalyst series are the modular Catalyst 4003 and the fixed configuration Catalyst 2948G. Specifically addressing enterprise wiring closets ranging from 48 to 96 ports of 10/100 or high-density Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. , these new solutions are based on a non-blocking switching architecture which enables high performance 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet connectivity. Further enhancements are also being announced today on the Catalyst 5500; see today's press release entitled, "Cisco Enables Application Recognition and QoS on Catalyst 5500 Series Solutions" for further details. "When we decided to expand our network, we knew that we needed to consider intelligent, high-bandwidth solutions that could scale and fit seamlessly into our Catalyst 5500-based infrastructure," said Bryan Brown
Bryan grew up in the south-western Sydney suburb of Panania. , manager of network services at Helix Health Inc. "Cisco's new Gigabit and wiring closet solutions have allowed us to protect our infrastructure investments and given us the price/performance necessary while delivering important enterprise end-to-end functionality." As enterprises begin to deploy Gigabit Ethernet, the Catalyst 4000 Series is a key platform in Cisco's goal of providing end-to-end Gigabit solutions. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recent report from the Dell Oro Group, Cisco currently holds the number one position in overall Gigabit Ethernet revenue with 24 percent of the total market, with the nearest competitor coming in at 17 percent. Based on Granite Systems technology, the Catalyst 4003 is a three-slot chassis that can support up to 36 Gigabit Ethernet ports or up to 96 10/100 Ethernet ports through a 24 Gbps non-blocking switching fabric. The Catalyst 2948G is a fixed configuration intelligent switch that has 48 10/100 ports and 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports for uplinks and is based on the same ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. architecture as the Catalyst 4000. Both products provide wire-speed switching on all ports with the total switching capacity of the Catalyst 4003 being 18 million packets per second and over 10 million packets per second in the Catalyst 2948G. To populate the new 4003 chassis, Cisco is also introducing new high-density line cards for both 10/100 and Gigabit Ethernet configurations. The new Catalyst 4000 line cards include options for either 32 or 48 10/100 ports, as well as 6 or 18 Gigabit Ethernet ports per card. Scalability and High Availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. As customers evolve their enterprise networks, they want to ensure that the solutions they choose today will enable them to scale in terms of both port count and feature sets. With a modular chassis A hardware device that is designed for expansion and accepts a variety of plug-in modules of different types. High-end network switches and routers are often built with a modular chassis. See line card. and Cisco's proven track record at providing high density/high performance solutions, the Catalyst 4000 is an ideal choice for those looking to implement Fast Ethernet An earlier name for 100Mbps Ethernet. See 100Base-T. (networking) Fast Ethernet - A version of Ethernet developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 Mbps compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded network cards and hubs. and Gigabit Ethernet. As with the Catalyst 5500 Series, Fast EtherChannel(TM) and Gigabit EtherChannel capabilities are built in. EtherChannel technology delivers up to 800 megabits or 8 gigabits of resilient, fault-tolerant, load-balancing bandwidth in a single, logical link. All Gigabit ports make use of flexible, industry-standard GBIC (GigaBit Interface Converter) A hardware module used to attach network devices to fiber-based transmission systems such as Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet. The GBIC converts the serial electrical signals to serial optical signals and vice versa. (GigaBit Interface Converter
Additionally, port redundancy is supported with Spanning Tree enhancements UplinkFast and PortFast, which provide faster convergence time in the event k resiliency and network availability, providing dedicated bandwidth directly to individual users, as well as servers, printers and high-speed connections to company data centers. Catalyst Compatibility, Full Enterprise Functionality and Intelligent Multicast Today's wiring closets demand intelligent support of emerging applications and need to couple tightly with Layer 3 switch routers like the Catalyst 8500 series and multilayer distribution switches like the Catalyst 5500 series for true end-to-end performance. The Catalyst 4000 Series delivers consistent high-end enterprise features by supporting the same software as the industry-leading Catalyst 5500 series. This gives the Catalyst 4000 Series market-leading performance and intelligent wiring closet capabilities. This includes wirespeed multicast, wirespeed RMON (Remote MONitoring) Enhancements to the management information base (MIB) structure used by the simple network management protocol (SNMP). In 1991, RMON added comprehensive network monitoring capabilities. support and enterprise-class VLAN See virtual LAN. VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network (Virtual LAN Also called a "VLAN," it is a logical subgroup within a local area network that is created via software rather than manually moving cables in the wiring closet. It combines user stations and network devices into a single unit regardless of the physical LAN segment they are attached to and ) capabilities including protocol filtering and per-VLAN Spanning Tree. Because enterprise networks are seeing more multicast traffic, it is essential for next-generation solutions to be able to recognize these flows and handle them efficiently. Similar to the Catalyst 5500 architecture, the Catalyst 4000 Series is optimized for environments that require intelligent, high-speed multicast traffic to be switched at wire speed. The Catalyst 4003 and 2948G forward multicast traffic at wire-speed on all ports participating in a given multicast session, but do not forward multicast traffic to links not participating in multicast which minimizes network and host resource utilization. Pricing, Availability and Further Information The Catalyst 4003 will be available in the first quarter of 1999 and will start at approximately $187 per 10/100 port and $1,277 per Gigabit Ethernet port. The fixed configuration Catalyst 2948G will also be available in the first quarter of 1999 and will be $8,995. For more information on Cisco's Catalyst series of multilayer switches, see http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/779/campus.html About Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. News and information are available at http://www.cisco.com. Note to Editors: Fast EtherChannel is a trademark, Catalyst, Cisco, Cisco Systems and the Cisco Systems logo are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. |
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