Cisco access switches allow your network to adapt and support new application deployments to meet changing business needs by enabling ease of operations, borderless security, borderless experience and sustainability.
With high availability, both stackable and standalone options, and EnergyWise technology for efficient power management, Catalyst access switches can help you build a borderless business by providing ease of operations, sustainability, borderless experience and borderless security.
Catalyst Access Switches Help You Build a Borderless Business
Cisco Catalyst access switching and wireless LAN solutions, part of the Cisco Borderless Networks architecture help deliver agile services and applications to manage, secure and govern your network.
Ease of Operation
Cisco access switches allow your network to adapt and support new application deployments to meet changing business needs. A 10-Gigabit upgrade with the Network Module helps with scalability while protecting your existing investments. The switches also support Catalyst Smart Operations features that help automate infrastructure deployment.
Borderless Security
Strengthen your control over wired and wireless access to your network. Cisco access switches provide end-to-end security using identity-based policy and threat intelligence capabilities. TrustSec helps secure networks with policy-based access control while MACsec provides hardware encryption for a higher level of security.
Borderless Experience
Cisco access switching provides the service intelligence and performance required for business-grade video and other revenue-generating services. Cisco network access makes borderless mobility possible with a unified approach to wired and wireless services, such as location awareness, to enhance application performance. Power over Ethernet Plus helps ensure compatibility with future versions for deployment of next generation high power devices.
Sustainability
Catalyst switching solutions help implement greener practices with measurable power efficiency, integrated services, and Cisco EnergyWise, an innovative technology for company-wide energy management. StackPower on Cisco Catalyst 3750-X Switches provides high-availability and operational efficiency. When the network knows, your business can fully adapt to dynamic market conditions.
The Cisco Nexus family of products provides a wide range of business benefits.
Convergence
Cisco Nexus solutions simplify the data center network by converging LANs and SANs, using Data Center Bridging (DCB), Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and unified ports.
- Lower total cost of ownership by up to 50 percent
- Reduce capital expenses through fewer host adapters, switches, and cables
- Cut operational expenses through reduced power, cooling, rack space, and floor space requirements
- Adopt solutions incrementally, without complete upgrade
- Minimize disruptions to existing management and operations
Scalability
Cisco Nexus solutions help enterprises scale for the more-complex workloads of virtualization, the proliferation of virtual machines, and the challenges of cloud computing.
- Unify all network locations in one environment
- Support efficient access and use of resources, regardless of size or scope
- Provide resilient, scalable networks with predictable performance and reduced complexity
Intelligence
Cisco Nexus delivers intelligent services directly into the network fabric. It transparently extends the network to encompass all network locations into a single, extended environment with consistent services and policy.
- Make services available to applications or workloads, and to different data-center infrastructure components
- Scale service delivery capability automatically with changes in network size
- Deploy applications faster, with policy-based compliance instead of physical infrastructure changes
