Additions to Catalyst, handbags and ASR Aironet Series are designed to help businesses cope with the changing demands of BYOD, cloud and IO.
Cisco Systems launches new offerings in various product lines switching that officials say will help companies keep pace with the change being driven by trends such as consumerization of IT and the Internet rapidly growing things.
The networking giant is growing its Aironet, Catalyst and ASR switching families give network administrators the technology they need to cope with the rapid growth of mobile traffic running infrastructure and accelerate its ability to introduce new applications and services .
The Internet of Things (IOT), increasing the expected increase in the number of connected devices and become bring- your own device (BYOD) trend is promising to push large amounts of network traffic of companies and service providers. The new switching products are designed to help companies address these challenges, according Prashanth Shenoy, senior director of product marketing and solutions for enterprise networking and mobility of Cisco.
Shenoy networking professionals regularly say their main concern is the inability of their network infrastructures to keep pace with the rate of change.
"I know exactly what they are talking about," Shenoy wrote in a post on the company blog. "Unfortunately, you are directed to things, go with the idea of" always worked, why change it? It is increasingly untenable. Sorry ... pros of the net, but the performance and reliability of its existing network is considered more than ever. "
The 13 new products in the portfolio of switching come a week after officials Cisco launched the latest edition of the company's annual report on trends in traffic growth of the mobile network. According to company figures, mobile data traffic worldwide each year by 2020 it will reach 366.8 exabytes, a huge leap of 44.2 exabytes a year ago. This will be driven by a significant increase in the number of users of mobile phones, connected devices and the speed of mobile networks in the world in the next five years.
"Not only multiple devices connect to the network, but will have access to business critical applications that require more performance, reliability and user experience than ever," says Shenoy.
In the range of Catalyst, Cisco says the Catalyst 6K supervisor Supervisor 6T-8L Series E Series Catalyst 4K, which are designed to help customers who are already using Catalyst 6500 and 6800 switches with improved performance. The Catalyst 3650-Mini is 24/48 Gigabit Ethernet Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) switch that is designed to give smaller, and performance that large enterprises get the Catalyst 3650 organizations.
On the wireless front, Cisco launched the Aironet 2800 and 3800 access points that support the standard 802.11ac wave 2 and come with features such as flexible radio stations, which automatically adapts to environmental changes. In addition, access points come with smart antenna ports that recognize and antenna devices are configured automatically. Both features are designed to make it easier for customers to manage their wireless networks, Shenoy wrote.
The ASR 1006-X and 1009-X are designed for high availability at a time when the edge of the network is under the pressure of these demanding applications bandwidth cloud computing, software-as-a-service , high-definition video and mobile work loads, Shenoy said. These workloads focus on scalability and speed and new switches offer high availability, full redundancy and a modular design with up to 100G bps form factor 6U (10.5 inches).
They also offer a pay-as-you-go licensing model.
"When you need more speed, simply select the appropriate software license," Shenoy wrote. "Software updates are made to use No need update hardware disconnection Weather unplanned objectives chassis-x: .... High availability and resilience"
Other new offerings include Connect Mobile (CMX) Cloud wireless networks over ideas, new access points, switches experience and management capabilities for the range of Meraki enterprise and the latest version Wide Area Application Services of (WAAS) Cisco software to improve the optimization of mobile applications.
