A lifelong piece of hardware - Cisco Catalyst!

Cisco Catalyst Switches are currently used within our organization to provide a reliable service to government employees, the public, partnered private companies, and also other public sector workers. Cisco Catalyst Switches have provided a scalable and reliable network, addressing the need for quick administration through an intuitive configuration terminal and also having advanced diagnostics and information accessible. The support for Cisco switches through TAC is vital in a public sector organization that already has limited funding for the employment of expert engineers. They furthermore have advanced features such as built-in TDR functionality which is extremely helpful for remotely identifying wiring faults. Cisco has proprietary protocols in their catalyst switches, providing functionality that is better or not offered at all on other vendor LAN equipment.

Catalyst switches have provided advanced manageability of the network through their advanced features relating to layer1/2 testing. The advanced security control features such as 802.1x, DHCP snooping, DAI, UDLD, storm-guard, loop guard, root guard, and CRC/FCS checking information are all advanced security features that protect the information security to the full scope of the CIA/AIC triad. We have implemented these to control a network and have used the switch stacking technology to provide an ease of manageability and thus a save administrator overhead through time-saving.