Thursday, September 5, 2013

Cisco TelePresence Conductor

Cisco TelePresence Conductor


Simple, Natural Telepresence Conferencing

Cisco TelePresence Conductor helps ensure simple, reliable, and efficient multiparty telepresence and collaborative conferencing. It simplifies multiparty video communications, orchestrating the different resources needed for each conference as required.

Features and Capabilities

The Cisco TelePresence Conductor has knowledge of all available conferencing resources and their capabilities. It helps ensure intelligent conference placement and optimum resource utilization, and delivers powerful, comprehensive administrative control, making simple natural conferencing a reality.
Cisco TelePresence Conductor:
  • Supports a wide range of Cisco TelePresence multipoint control units (MCUs) and TelePresence Servers
  • Efficiently scales from small businesses to enterprises, supporting expansion as utilization increases
  • Supports service differentiation, allowing administrators to define specific classes of service for conference attendees
  • Allows conferences to dynamically grow and even exceed the capacity of individual MCUs or TelePresence Servers
Cisco TelePresence Conductor supports spontaneous, rendezvous*, and scheduled conferencing modes to help ensure that the user experience is always consistent irrespective of user, meeting type, or endpoint. Administrators can implement the Cisco TelePresence Conductor as either an appliance or a virtualized application to meet the needs of their organizations.
*Rendezvous conferencing is sometimes referred to as 'meetme' conferencing.

Specifications at a Glance

Cisco TelePresence Conductors may be clustered together to provide resilience and promote maximum service availability. Taking an MCU or Conductor unit out of service will not impact service availability. Cisco TelePresence Conductor will dynamically select the most appropriate Cisco TelePresence resources for each new conference.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches

Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches


Optimized for 10/40/100 Campus Services
Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches are programmable campus backbone switches optimized for 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet services. They provide slot capacity up to 880 G, and smart and simple network operations using Catalyst Instant Access. These switches offer converged wired, wireless, and VPN security, and exceptional investment protection with their Catalyst 6500 DNA.
Features and Capabilities
Cisco Catalyst 6800 Switches are built for next-generation scale, services, simplicity, and programmability. They allow IT staff to move from a traditional role of network administration to focus more on business innovation.

Scalable

Help ensure that the campus is ready for 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet services with the higher slot and switching capacity of Catalyst 6800. The 6800 Series offers the highest-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports that:
  • Include advanced enterprise Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS), and Multicast functionality
  • Support multirate interfaces for easy migration from 1 Gigabit Ethernet to higher throughput services
Cisco Catalyst 6807-XL Switches can scale to 880 Gb per slot and 11.4-Tbps (full duplex) switching capacity. For midsize campuses, Cisco Catalyst 6880-X Switches provide scalability with eighty 10 or twenty 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports.

Smart

Built for Programmability

Catalyst 6800 switches support the Cisco One Platform Kit (onePK) software-defined networking (SDN) toolkit. You can easily build applications to automate operations and create services across the campus.
The 6800 Series Switches also support the industry-standard OpenFlow interface. You can program these switches for custom network services such as network slicing and traffic steering.

Built for Unified Access

The Catalyst 6800 series facilitates:
  • Five nines (99.999 percent) availability with next-generation Cisco Virtual Switching System (VSS) technology (VSS Quad Supervisor SSO [VS4O])
  • One policy with Cisco Identity Services Engine
  • Centralized management with Cisco Prime infrastructure
  • One network with Cisco Wireless Services Module 2 (WiSM2)
  • Roaming and device mobility with the Cisco Campus Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)

Simple

To simplify the campus network, Catalyst 6800:
  • Supports the Catalyst Instant Access solution, which extends backbone features to the access layer with simplified configuration, management, and feature consistency
  • Supports Smart Operations features, including VSS, Smart Install, and Embedded Event Manager (EEM)
  • Is fully integrated with Cisco Prime Infrastructure

Highly Secure

You get comprehensive wired, wireless, and VPN security through Cisco TrustSecand support for Cisco AnyConnect sessions.

Investment Protection

Catalyst 6800 has features and operations that are consistent with Catalyst 6500 so your new network investment can be fully functional immediately. IT can upgrade the backbone with minimal service interruption and no staff retraining because it offers the same features and operational consistency as Catalyst 6500 Switches.
Catalyst 6800 switches also support all features that Catalyst 6500 switches do, so IT can be fully operational from day 1. IT can take advantage of existing Catalyst 6500 investments, as Catalyst 6807-XL supports existing Supervisor Engine 2T, line cards, and service modules.

Cisco 4400 Series Integrated Services Routers

Cisco 4400 Series Integrated Services Routers


Gigabit Service Performance Without Compromise

The Cisco 4451-X ISR revolutionizes delivery of services to high-end branch offices to promote a high-quality application experience. This router provides Gigabit forwarding performance and the broadest set of services available natively on a single-box solution. It offers appliance-level reliability, pay-as-you-grow services without disruption, and simplified operations that reduce expenses.

Features and Capabilities

Cisco 4451-X ISR is the new flagship router of the Cisco ISR family. It continues the feature-rich and high-reliability heritage of the ISR family with exceptional performance, services, and simplicity. It includes:
  • A multi-core CPU architecture running Cisco IOS-XE Software that dynamically adapts to the changing needs of branch environments
  • Control data and services plane to deliver application-aware services while maintaining high reliability during peak load
  • Services-aware data plane that simplifies provisioning and configuration, and scales to Gigabit forwarding performance
  • Wide range of wired connectivity options, including T1/E1, T3/E3, and Gigabit Ethernet
  • Built-in services virtualization framework that enables faster feature integration and investment protection
The 4451-X ISR offers:
  • Native service, integration encryption acceleration and firewall
  • Voice and video-capable architecture
  • Call processing
  • Application visibility and control
  • WAN optimization and embedded services
Pay-as-you-grow performance and services allow customers to standardize on a single platform and add capabilities without disruptions or truck rolls. Get exceptional total cost of ownership (TCO) savings and network agility through integration of market-leading security, unified communications, and application services.

Specifications at a Glance

  • Platform forwarding with multiple services of 1-2 Gbps, upgradeable with a feature license that does not require a truck roll
  • Separate control, data, and services resources to help ensure the highest availability and reliable performance
  • Two rack units high and four dual-mode Gigabit Ethernet ports with a four Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) option
  • Two single-wide or one double-wide service module slots
  • Three network interface modules (NIM); two interfaces can be combined to a double-wide NIM
  • One onboard Cisco Packet Voice DSP Module (PVDM4) slot; additional PVDM4s are supported through voice NIMs
  • One onboard Cisco Integrated Services Card (ISC) slot.

Cisco MDS 9250i Multiservice Fabric Switch

Cisco MDS 9250i Multiservice Fabric Switch


Superior Flexibility with Multi-protocol Innovations
The Cisco MDS 9250i Multiservice Fabric Switch provides superior flexibility in SAN connectivity by delivering state-of-the-art multiprotocol convergence and distributed fabric services, along with many advanced capabilities. With 50 fixed ports in a compact form factor, the Cisco 9250i brings high performance and scalable storage connectivity for converged LAN and SAN fabrics.

Features and Capabilities

Benefits:

  • SAN consolidation and convergence with integrated multiprotocol support for Fibre Channel (FC), FC over Ethernet (FCoE), FCIP, iSCSI, and FICON
  • Optimized for performance, power, and space, with 40 line-rate 16-Gbps FC ports and 10 10-Gbps Ethernet ports
  • Remote SAN extension with high-performance FC over IP (FCIP) for remote replication and other disaster-recovery services
  • Intelligent fabric services, such as I/O Accelerator (IOA) and Data Mobility Manager (DMM)
  • Flexibility for future growth and capacity expansion

Features:

  • Hardware-based virtual fabric isolation with virtual SANs (VSANs) and FC routing with Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR)
  • Enterprise-class availability features for departmental SANs
  • Intelligent network services and advanced traffic management capabilities
  • Industry-leading SAN security to support compliance and regulatory requirements
  • Common Cisco NX-OS and management platform (Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager) across Cisco MDS and Nexus product families

Specifications at a Glance

Minimum Software Requirements

Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS Software Release 6.2, supporting Cisco MDS 9250i and Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) for SAN

Performance and Port Configuration

Port speed:
  • 16, 8, 4, and 2 Gbps auto-sensing with 16 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth per Fibre Channel port
  • 10 Gbps per FCoE and FCIP port
Buffer credits:
  • 64 per port (shared-mode ports) and up to 256 on an individual port (dedicated-mode ports with optional Cisco MDS 9000 enterprise package license activated)
Ports per chassis:
  • Up to 50 fixed ports, including 40 16-Gbps Fibre Channel, eight 10-Gbps FCoE, and two 10-Gbps FCIP and iSCSI ports
  • Base configuration with 30 ports; includes 20 16-Gbps Fibre Channel, eight 10-Gbps FCoE, and two 10-Gbps FCIP and iSCSI ports
  • Port activation license to upgrade license remaining 20 16-Gbps Fibre Channel ports

Intelligent Services

  • SAN extension built in
  • Cisco IOA and Cisco DMM activated by separate licenses

Advanced Functions

  • Virtual SAN (VSAN)
  • IVR
  • Port channel with multipath load balancing
  • Flow-based and zone-based QoS
  • FCIP tape read-and-write acceleration and FCIP compression
  • FICON over FCIP tape read-and-write acceleration (pipelining)

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Cisco RV320 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Router

Cisco RV320 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Router


Get Optimal Performance, Security, and Reliability

Keep your employees, your business, and yourself productive and effective. The Cisco RV320 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Router is an ideal choice for any small office or small business looking for performance, security, and reliability in its network.

Features and Capabilities

The Cisco RV320 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Router offers:
  • Dual Gigabit Ethernet WAN ports for load balancing and business continuity
  • Built-in 4-port Gigabit Ethernet switch
  • Strong security with proven stateful packet inspection (SPI) firewall and hardware encryption
  • High-capacity, high-performance, SSL, IP Security (IPsec) VPN capabilities
  • Intuitive, browser-based device manager and setup wizards

Specifications at a Glance

  • Performance
    Supports Gigabit Ethernet speeds for internal and external wired connections; easily manages large files and concurrent users to keep employees productive
  • Simple, highly secure access
    Connect multiple locations and remote workers using VPN, or set up separate virtual networks and access rules to help secure sensitive data
  • Ease of use
    Can be deployed directly out of the box; setup wizards reduce configuration time to minutes
  • Flexible
    USB ports provides the ability to use 3G and 4G modems for broadband failover

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches


Highest Performance and Density

Scale up to 83 terabits per second (Tbps) with the Cisco Nexus 7700 18-Slot Switch. It offers high availability, exceptional performance, high density 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE), and front-to-back air flow. That makes it ideal for high performance data center core and Unified Fabric deployments.

Cisco Nexus 7700 18-Slot Switch












Features and Capabilities

High Scalability

The Cisco Nexus 7718 switch is designed to meet the scaling needs of the most demanding data centers today and well into the future. It offers:
  • One of the highest switching capacities in the industry, with up to 83 Tbps
  • One of the highest 10 GE, 40 GE and 100 GE densities in the industry (768 ports 10 GE, 384 ports 40 GE or 192 ports 100 GE; non-blocking ports)

Operation and Feature Consistency

The Cisco Nexus 7718 switch maintains operational and feature consistency with the Cisco Nexus 7000 series. It offers:
  • The same proven common architecture, ASICs, and NX-OS software
  • One of the industry's most comprehensive data center feature sets
  • The same software train across the entire Cisco Nexus 7000 Series to help ensure consistency

Lower Total Cost of Ownership

The Cisco Nexus 7718 switches are optimized for the data center with front-to-back air flow in a compact form factor, delivering a lower total cost of ownership. They offer:
  • True front-to-back air flow design for hot-cold aisle deployments
  • Reduced system power consumption with granular power supplies and configuration
  • Data center power mode that optimizes system power consumption at higher ambient temperature
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Monday, September 2, 2013

Cisco Carrier Routing System

Cisco Carrier Routing System


Build the Foundation for the Next-Generation Internet

The Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS-X) provides outstanding economical scale, IP and optical network convergence, and a proven architecture that's delivered 10 times the capacity over 10 years. It offers advanced services intelligence, an environmentally-aware design, and system longevity. Furthermore, the CRS-X uses Cisco IOS XR Software, a unique self-healing and distributed operating system.


Extending the Elastic Core

The Cisco CRS-X provides economical scale with IP and optical network convergence. (4:42 min)

CRS-X: Intelligence and Speed
Cisco Carrier Routing System powers some of the world's largest service provider networks. (58 sec)

Features and Capabilities
To deliver video, cloud, and mobile services effectively, service providers need to migrate their 10G network infrastructures to 100G and beyond. They also recognize the importance of scaling economically and quickly adapting to topology shifts.
What's the best way to do all this? With an elastic core that's intelligent, programmable, and scalable. An elastic core with the Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS-X), which can:
  • Deliver continuous operations at 400 Gbps per slot
  • Offer industry-leading scale from a single chassis to a multi-chassis system
  • Support 100G speeds and beyond using programmable Cisco nLight Technology
  • Combine intelligent IP, lean core transit, and optical transport services
  • Improve network monetization through intelligent Layer 4-7 services