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What is Cisco Catalyst Switches?
Cisco's Catalyst is one of that company's brand of network switches.
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What is Cisco Catalyst Switches?
The Cisco Catalyst family of switches includes enterprise LAN access, distribution, and core switches. The vendor says the switches are designed for an entirely new era of intent-based networking, deliver stellar performance and functionality, and prepares a network for the future with breakthrough innovations for security, mobility, IoT, and the cloud.
Cisco Catalyst switches offer advanced security capabilities, scale for IoT, and cloud readiness.
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(1-4 of 4)A catalyst, as a metaphor, often comes in the form of rest. You can rest easy with Cisco Catalyst Switches
- Vlan
- Port security
- Poe for phones and surveillance cameras
- Trunking
- None
- Nada
- Good as is
- Great scalability
- Reliable hardware
- Port security
- Webex Calling
- Working from home
- Webex
- Microsoft Teams
- Zoom
- Vlan
- Port security
- Network switching
- POE devices
- Scalability
- Ease of Use
- N/A
- N/A
- N/A
- N/A
- N/A
- N/A
- Implemented in-house
- Not sure
- No Training
- Port activation
- Trunking
- Vlan
- None
- N/A
- N/A
- File import/export
- Still in progress of upgrading
- Quicker connections
- More security
- New features
Fair Game
- Catalyst 2960 X/XR Series
- port security
- IOS update
- SNMP / monitoring setup
- TACACS / RADIUS setup
- scalability
- chassis aggregation
- enable BPDU guard by default
- reassign logical interface numbers when renumbering switches in a stack
- reduce noise
- long life
- low cost
- many features
- data forwarding
- network expansion
- maintenance refresh
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Vendor Reputation
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
- end-user deployment
- end-user management
- greater segmentation
- expansion
- Implemented in-house
- network downtime
- IOS matching
- Self-taught
- switchport configuration
- vlan configuration
- management configuration
- file copy
- stack ring configuration between dissimilar models
- matching IOS versions between dissimilar models
- PLC network
- camera network
- Single Signon
- Newer features
- Higher stack ring throughput
- Higher throughput uplinks
- Higher throughput
- improved user interface
Catalyst: an oldie with an always young heart
- Catalyst 2960 X/XR Series
- Catalyst 2960-L Series
- Catalyst 3650 Series
- Easy to configure and maintain. Once you have implemented a well-designed baseline your Catalyst Switch will perform with no problems even those related to STP that could worry you.
- Very long BMTF.
- I haven't had a failure with Catalyst Switches for so long that I change them because of the need for more capacity, but not for disaster failures.
- The last time a catalyst switch failed was in 2008 and it went to the secondary/standby supervisor so it was really short. Before that, I had a problem with a 4908 that currently doesn't exist.
- Very reliable.
- If you learn how to tune up the device and more importantly how to tune up the interconnection and interrelationships among all the devices in your network, you can sleep confident. And the next time you wake up it'll be because of your clock alarm and not because of a phone call from your boss.
- Excellent cost/performance relation.
- Even Cisco has so many great characteristics they have been able to keep all those features in the basic models so it is possible to make a deployment with not a big investment and still have a dependable network.
- We have been able to simplify our network so we can use 3K switches incorporated in a collapsed core network and have it producing money annually, more than 30 million a year.
- Good written support.
- When you look at Cisco web pages, since they have been investing in ML/DL, it is easy to find documentation pertinent to your specific problem and/or confirmation scenario.
- The legacy information is still there.
- Graphical interface
- Modularity
- Keep stacking capabilities
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- As many options are available, it is easy to fit different budgets.
- Life cycle does not fit hardware life, so working devices have to be removed from the network. I think hardware has to be rethought so that with software updates we can be able to continue milking it.
- Increase interconnectivity with master-slave domain with OVT.
- Core
- Access
- Branch connection
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Vendor Reputation
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
- A dark metropolitan area network in a ring topology.
- We have leased 120 kilometers of dark fiber and connect to those 19 branch offices and are using a well-tuned STP. We have 100% availability for the 14th year in a row.
- As a layer 3 for 3rd party interconnection in a DMZ.
- We could use is in any way. We have substituted routers where a layer 3 switch can be used. We've found them very flexible because of the virtual interfaces.
- Implemented in-house
- Third-party professional services
- New learning ways
- Cisco documentation is crucial to obtain better results
- Self-taught
- Smart ports
- Gui interface
- Stacking
- Cdp
- Till now nothing
- Cisco firewalls
- Radware hardware
- Face recognition system
- Not by now
- Single Signon
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
- Eliminate bugs
- No down time
- More programming choices
- Let me be so creative by coding details choices and making a very customized network
- Some graphical user interface with out of the box codes
Catalyst 2960X and 3560CX Review
- Catalyst 2960 X/XR Series
- Catalyst 3560-CX Series
- Stack up to 8 high providing high port density with a single managed IP address
- Autosmart ports allow zero touch provisioning of edge connected devices
- IOS commands are congruent amongst most models (Obviously different features available for different products)
- My only complain is the boot time for a stack. Just more of an education thing to end users than a nuisance. Letting them know it may be 5-10 minutes before connectivity is restored in the event of a power loss.
- They have returned engineer hours spent on manually configuring ports and resolving issues related to STP.
- They have also allowed end to end congruence of configurations. Each location is similar in its configuration which allows for easier manageability.
- Edge switching for our campus LAN environment.
- Ease of mangement by stacking 8 high and allowing high port density with only 1 management IP.
- Provides easy no-touch provisioning for end devices using AutoSmart ports.
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Vendor Reputation
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
- We've been able to utilize the compact switches in compact environments where cooling and space are limited.
- Just continue using the product to meet our needs at the edge. With the upcoming release of the Catalyst 9200 there may be some more opportunities to be innovative.
- Out of the box configuration is pretty straight forward using the in software setup wizard if you choose to go that route.
- Setting up vlans and interface policies are pretty straight forward.
- The CLI in general is pretty easy to navigate. Utilizing the ? feature and tab completion, you can complete just about any task with little effort.
- Not neccesarily difficult but more time consuming is the the programming of the macros for AutoSmart ports. However, once configured they work quite well and will save you a lot of time in the long run.
- Multicast can be a bear, but the same as above, once you get it working, it's rock solid.