Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches – Easy to use and Highly Efficient

February 2014

Cisco switches are scalable, smart, easy to install and secure besides being cost-effective. They are designed to suit the size of any business. It doesn’t matter how vast your network is, Cisco switches are made to cater to diverse requirements.

Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches  These programmable backbone switches from Cisco are optimized for 10 GB, 40 GB and 100 GB Ethernets. Catalyst 6800 Series Switches provide slot capacity of up to 880 G. In fact, these switches are built for next generation services. These switches will allow your staff to shift from the role of a network admin to that of a more responsible and innovative one.

The higher slot and efficient capacity of the Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches can make it campus ready for 10/40/100 GB Ethernet Services. These switches provide high density 10 GB Ethernet ports which includes advanced enterprise MPLS as well as VPN services besides multicast functionalities.

Catalyst 6800 series is compatible with Cisco One Platform kit software defined networking toolkit. This allows users to create applications for automation of operations. These switches can also be customized to support network slicing and traffic steering.

6800 series switches are great when it comes to simplifying the campus network. The switch is also integrated with Cisco Prime Infrastructure. Smart Operations features, Embedded Event manager and Smart Install are all compatible with these switches. On the network security front, Cisco TrustSec and Cisco AnyConnect take care of wireless, wired and Virtual Private Network security.

Catalyst 6800 switches are a notch higher than Catalyst 6500 switches as it supports all the features of the latter. This allows your IT staff to become operational from day one itself. Your entire Catalyst 6500 infrastructure will not go waste as Catalyst 6807-XL supports older Supervisor 2T, service modules as well as line cards.