Cisco Introduces Innovations for the Catalyst Intelligent Switching Series.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CeBIT 2004 HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 2004 Cisco Advances the Integration of Intelligent Services and High Performance Switching with the Availability of Supervisor Engines, Significant New Software Features, New Chassis and 10Gigabit 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. Capabilities 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 NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ) today announced continued product innovation with new products and capabilities for its Catalyst Intelligent Switching portfolio to address increasing customer needs for performance, density and integrated intelligent services. Being introduced today are additional integrated security features and support for enhanced manageability and ease-of-deployment with Cisco Smartports for the entire Catalyst portfolio. In addition, new Catalyst 6500 software enhancements for several Integrated Advanced Services Modules, a new web-based management tool for the Catalyst 6500 Integrated Service Modules, a 48-port SFP SFP Small Form-factor Pluggable (optical transceiver module) SFP Société Française de Physique (French Physics Society; Paris) Sfp Svenska Folkpartiet (Finnish: Swedish People~s Party) fiber-based gigabit Ethernet module, an enhancement to the Cisco Supervisor 720, a new 10-Slot chassis and Supervisor Engine for the Catalyst 4500, 10Gigabit Ethernet uplink capability for the Catalyst 3750 and new 10 Gigabit Ethernet XENPAK optics that support multi-mode and copper interfaces, were announced. The breadth of today's announcements demonstrates Cisco's commitment to highly secure, intelligent switching architectures that simplify deployment and manageability, while preserving customer investments and advanced services options. "To meet evolving business requirements, the enterprise network must be able to support and manage advanced applications with greater simplicity," says Chris Kozup, program director of technology research services at the META Group. "IT organizations should seek a network infrastructure capable of providing intelligent services to ensure optimal application performance." Smartports and Security Enhancements Now available across the Catalyst product family, Smartports enables fast and easy configuration of many Catalyst Intelligent features, such as Quality of Service (QoS), security and availability. Smartports greatly reduces time and complexity of advanced feature deployments while enabling customers to take advantage of Cisco's best-practices and achieving implementation consistency across multiple switch devices. Underscoring Cisco's focus on enhancing network security, new Catalyst integrated security features are now offered across Cisco Catalyst Intelligent Switching platforms. These capabilities include DHCP snooping When DHCP servers are allocating IP addresses to the clients on the LAN, DHCP snooping can be configured to bolster the security on the LAN to only allow clients with specific IP/MAC addresses to have access to the network. DHCP snooping is a series of layer 2 techniques. , Dynamic ARP Inspection that helps to prevent DoS and man-in-the-middle attacks See replay attack. , and IP source guard, which helps prevent IP address theft. Additionally, Cisco continues to offer significant value-added extensions to the industry-standard 802.1x to provide more granular granular /gran·u·lar/ (gran´u-lar) made up of or marked by presence of granules or grains. gran·u·lar adj. 1. Composed or appearing to be composed of granules or grains. 2. user-based authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. and network access control. Enhancements to Cisco Catalyst 6500 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. New to the Catalyst 6500 are enhancements to four integrated service modules including the Content Switching Module, the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. Services Module, the IPSec VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. Services Module and the Network Analysis Module 1 and 2. These enhancements, enabled with software upgrades, provide additional security, application awareness, and visibility of network traffic. In addition, CiscoView Device Manager (CVDM CVDM Color Visual Difference Model CVDM Cellular Voice & Data Module CVDM Convex Virtual Disk Manager ), a new embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. device manager, provides web based Coming from a Web server. See Web application. , graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to for easy configuration and management of Catalyst 6500 and integrated services In computer networking, IntServ or integrated services is an architecture that specifies the elements to guarantee quality of service (QoS) on networks. IntServ can for example be used to allow video and sound to reach the receiver without interruption. module. CVDM further, simplifies deployment and manageability of flexible, integrated services network designs. The enhancements to the Catalyst 6500 Integrated Service portfolio in combination with the new 48-port Gigabit Ethernet Module allows for high levels of throughput required for high-density high performance gigabit aggregation and data center deployments. These additions combined with the Supervisor 720 field upgradeable PFC PFC abbr. private first class Noun 1. PFC - a powerful greenhouse gas emitted during the production of aluminum perfluorocarbon 3BXL BXL Bruxelles (French: Brussels, Belgium) daughter card, which delivers enhanced security and increased performance and scalability for the number of IPv4 and IPv6 routes, extends the deployment of scalable, highly secure and manageable switch-integrated network services in the datacenter. Enhancements to Cisco Catalyst 4500 Modular Chassis The new solutions for the Catalyst 4500 represent the evolutionary design and investment protection of the Catalyst modular switching portfolio. The new Catalyst 4510R, a 10-Slot chassis capable of redundant supervisor engines, now provides customers with a common architecture for higher port densities of 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. or Gigabit Ethernet in a single chassis. Required for the Catalyst 4510R, the new Supervisor Engine V increases the capacity and throughput of the Catalyst 4500 and offers new hardware based advanced features such as Broadcast and Multicast suppression, and support for Q-in-Q encapsulation (1) In object technology, the creation of self-contained modules that contain both the data and the processing. See object-oriented programming. (2) The transmission of one network protocol within another. . All existing Catalyst 4500 line cards are fully supported in the new larger capacity 10-Slot chassis and with the Supervisor Engine V. Supervisor Engine V is also designed to be backwards compatible See backward compatible. backwards compatible - backward compatibility with the entire Catalyst 4500 series chassis family, demonstrating the investment protection of the Catalyst 4500 series architecture. Enhancements to Cisco Catalyst 3750 Family The Catalyst 3750 with StackWise technology, is expanding its configuration options to include a 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplink option. The new Catalyst 3750 switch offers 16-ports of 10/100/1000 and one 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplink and can be added to any existing Catalyst 3750 stack to enable all ports in the stack to have access to the 10 GbE uplink. With this new switch, network managers can utilize existing wiring closet The central distribution or servicing point for cables in a network. See MDF and wire center. fiber plant to increase uplink bandwidth of their switching stacks, further enabling Gigabit Ethernet workgroup deployments. Enhanced Media support for 10 Gigabit Ethernet Deployments To further accelerate the adoption of 10Gigabit Ethernet in the enterprise, datacenter, grid-computing and server clustering See clustering. , Cisco is also announcing support for 10GBASE-CX4, 10 Gigabit Ethernet over Copper technology, and availability of 10GBASE-LX4 and 10GBASE-SR XENPAK Modules 10 Gigabit Ethernet over Multi-Mode-Fiber (MMF See multimode fiber. ). These new XENPAK interfaces are supported on the 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports of the Catalyst 6500 and new Catalyst 3750. Pricing and Availability
Product ID Description List Availability
Price
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SUP720-3BXL Cisco 6500 Series
Supervisor Engine, $40,000 Now
Integrated Fabric,
PFC3BXL, MSFC3
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WS-F6K-PFC3BXL Catalyst 6500 Field
Upgradeable PFC3BLX $12,000 April
daughter card for
Supervisor 720
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WS-X6748-SFP 48-port High
Performance Mixed
Media Gigabit $25,000 Now
Ethernet interface
module, Requires
SFP, CEF720
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Catalyst 6500 CiscoView Catalyst 6500
Device Manager CiscoView Device
Manager -- Free May
downloadable from
CCO
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SC6k-3.2.1-CSM Content Switching
Module Software Free Now
release 3.2(1)
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SC6k-4.1.1-CSM Content Switching
Module Software Free April
release 4.1(1)
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SC-SVC-SSL-2.1.1-K9 SSL Services Module Free Now
Software release 2.1
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IOS 12.2(17d)SXB IPSec VPN Services
Module Software Free Now
enhancements
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SC-SVC-NAM-3.3 Network Analysis
Module 1 & 2 Free March
Software release 3.3
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WS-C4510R Cisco Catalyst 4510R
10-slot Chassis,
requires power $12,495 Now
supplies and
Supervisor V
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WS-X4516 Catalyst 4500 Series $16,495 Now
Supervisor Engine V
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Cisco Catalyst 3750 16 port 10/100/1000 + $19,995 March
1 10GbE XENPAK port
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XENPAK-10GB-LX4 10GBASE-LX4 XENPAK, $4,000 April
300m over MMF
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XENPAK-10GB-SR 10GBASE-SR XENPAK,
26m over 62.5um MMF, $3,000 March
300m over 50um
2000MHz*km MMF
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XENPAK-10GB-CX4 10GBASE-CX4 XENPAK,
15m over 8 pair $600 March
Infiniband cable
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