Cisco has upgraded its campus switching offering to make
sure bandwidth intensive productivity apps like video and IPTV are
fully supported.
The upgrades are an extension to the supplier’s
Cisco Service
Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) framework, aimed at businesses
and education establishments.
The new offering includes the Cisco Catalyst 3750-E and 3560-E
Series Switches, an enterprise-class line of 10/100/1000 wiring
closet switches with 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks and full Power
over Ethernet (PoE) configurations.
There are also the new Cisco Catalyst 3560 and Catalyst 2960
Compact Switches - small form-factor switches with Gigabit Ethernet
and Fast Ethernet and PoE configurations, designed for meeting
rooms, classrooms and other wiring and space-constrained
environments.
Zeus Kerravala, an analyst at the Yankee Group, said, "Cisco has
laid the groundwork for advanced services deployment for voice and
video, easing migration to next-generation 10 Gigabit Ethernet
networks and Power over Ethernet capabilities.
“These announcements will extend highly secure wired and
wireless user access, while easing network and operations
management for stretched IT administrators.”
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