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Products and Services
Our current offerings fall into several categories:
Switching
Switching is an integral networking technology used in campuses, branch offices, and data centers. Switches are
used within buildings in local-area networks (“LANs”) and across great distances in wide-area networks
(“WANs”). Our switching products offer many forms of connectivity to end users, workstations, IP phones,
access points, and servers and also function as aggregators on LANs and WANs. Our switching systems employ
several widely used technologies, including Ethernet, Power over Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(“FCoE”), Packet over Synchronous Optical Network, and Multiprotocol Label Switching. Many of our switches
are designed to support an integrated set of advanced services, allowing organizations to be more efficient by
using one switch for multiple networking functions rather than multiple switches to accomplish the same
functions. Key product platforms within our Switching product category, in which we also include storage
products, are as follows:
Fixed-Configuration Switches Modular Switches Storage
Cisco Catalyst Series: Cisco Catalyst Series: MDS Series:
• Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series • Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series • MDS 9000
• Cisco Catalyst 3560 Series • Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series
• Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series
Cisco Nexus Series: Cisco Nexus Series:
• Cisco Nexus 2000 Series • Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
• Cisco Nexus 3000 Series
• Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
Fixed-configuration switches are designed to cover a range of deployments in small and medium-sized
businesses. Our fixed-configuration switches are designed to provide a foundation for converged data, voice, and
video services. They range from small, standalone switches to stackable models that function as a single, scalable
switching unit.
Modular switches are typically utilized by enterprise and service provider customers. These products offer
flexibility and scalability for these customers, which due to their large-scale network demands often need to
deploy numerous, concurrent intelligent networking services without degrading overall performance.
Fixed-configuration and modular switches also include products such as optics modules which are shared across
multiple product platforms.
During fiscal 2012, we introduced what we believe to be the industry’s most advanced and versatile portfolio of
modular, fixed-configuration, blade, and virtual LAN switches for campus, branch, and data center deployments.
Individually, these switches are designed to offer the performance and features required for nearly any
deployment, from traditional small workgroups, wiring closets, and network cores to highly virtualized and
converged corporate data centers. Working together, these switches are, in our view, the building blocks of an
integrated network that delivers scalable and intelligent services protecting, optimizing, and growing as a
customer’s business needs evolve. We also recently introduced a versatile and broad approach to network
programmability, called Cisco ONE, aimed at helping customers drive the next wave of business innovation
through trends such as cloud, mobility, social networking, and video. Cisco ONE is designed to enable flexible,
application-driven customization of network infrastructures to help businesses realize objectives such as
increased service velocity, resource optimization, and faster monetization of new services.
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