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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, wireless 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: Cisco MDS Series:
• Cisco Catalyst 2960-X Series • Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Series • Cisco MDS 9000
• Cisco Catalyst 3650 Series • Cisco Catalyst 6500-E Series
• Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series • Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series
• Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series
Cisco Nexus Series: Cisco Nexus Series:
• Cisco Nexus 2000 Series • Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
• Cisco Nexus 3000 Series • Cisco Nexus 9000 Series
• Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
• Cisco Nexus 6000 Series
Fixed-configuration switches are designed to cover a range of deployments in both large enterprises as well as in small and
medium-sized businesses, providing a foundation for converged data, voice, and video services. Our fixed configuration
switches range from small, standalone switches to stackable models that function as a single, scalable switching unit.
Modular switches are typically used by enterprise and service provider customers with large-scale network needs. These
products are designed to offer customers the flexibility and scalability to deploy numerous, as well as advanced, networking
services without degrading overall network performance.
Fixed-configuration and modular switches also include products such as optics modules, which are shared across multiple
product platforms.
Our switching portfolio also includes virtual switches and related offerings. These products provide switching functionality for
virtual machines and are designed to operate in a complementary fashion with virtual services to optimize security and
application behavior.
During fiscal 2014, we continued to see increased market acceptance of switches we introduced in the previous fiscal year,
including our Cisco Catalyst 2960-X, Cisco Catalyst 3850 and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series switches. We announced our
application-centric-infrastructure solution, Cisco ACI, in fiscal 2014. Cisco ACI consists of the new Cisco Nexus 9000 Series
Switches, a Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) and accompanying centralized policy management
capability, a Cisco Application Virtual Switch (AVS), integrated physical and virtual infrastructure, and an open ecosystem of
network, storage, management, and orchestration vendors. Key characteristics of Cisco ACI include simplified automation by
an application-driven policy model, centralized visibility and vigilance with real-time application monitoring, open software
flexibility for development and operations teams and ecosystem partner integration capability, and scalable performance in
hardware.
Individually, our switching suite of products is 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 with our wireless access solutions, these switches are, in our view, the building
blocks of an integrated network that delivers scalable and advanced functionality solutions—protecting, optimizing, and
growing as a customer’s business needs evolve.
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