BARCELONA, SPAIN--(Marketwire - January 23, 2008) - CISCO NETWORKERS 2008 -- Cisco® (NASDAQ: CSCO) today introduced new Catalyst® switches and capabilities to the
Campus Communication Fabric, its blueprint for network services, to help
customers increase operational flexibility and use the network as a
platform to accelerate the delivery of applications and to support evolving
networks. In an industry first, Cisco announced innovative enhanced
Power-over-Ethernet (ePoE) capabilities across its Catalyst portfolio
beginning with the Catalyst 3750-E and 3560-E Series, with the Catalyst
6500 and Catalyst 4500-E Series scheduled to follow in the second quarter
of this calendar year. With ePoE, customers can power Cisco 802.11n
wireless access points from a single switch port, delivering greater
operational simplicity and business flexibility for secure wired and
wireless integrated network.
Cisco today also announced new fixed 10 Gigabit Ethernet aggregation
switching solutions in its Catalyst 3560-E Series and has introduced
Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) support in its Catalyst 2960 Series, providing
greater deployment flexibility to enterprises and small and medium-sized
business customers.
"On the one-year anniversary of the Cisco Catalyst 3750-E and 3560-E
Series, we are proud to demonstrate continued switch innovation to help our
customers meet the growing demand of faster applications and media-rich
business collaboration," said Inbar Lasser-Raab, senior director of Cisco
Network Systems. "We're seeing rapid adoption of our Catalyst 3750-E and
3560-E Series as customers roll out these services and require higher
performance, easy migration to next-generation 10 Gigabit Ethernet and
extended Power-over-Ethernet capabilities."
Strong Customer Momentum for Cisco Catalyst 3750-E and 3560-E Series
Cisco Catalyst 3750-E and 3560-E Series switches are enterprise-class lines
of wiring closet and aggregation switches that enhance worker productivity
by enabling real-time applications such as IP telephony, wireless and
video. Customers spanning various industry verticals have harnessed
Catalyst 3750-E and 3560 E-Series benefits such as uninterrupted uptime,
increased speed and the creation of future-ready infrastructures.
Sanford Health Reinvents Community Healthcare with Integrated Campuses
With more than 360 physicians across 150 locations in South Dakota, Iowa,
Nebraska and Minnesota, Sanford Health is using Cisco's integrated network
to support a comprehensive system of hospitals, clinics, managed care,
long-term care facilities, living facilities, home health services and
pharmacies.
The Cisco Catalyst 3750-E has improved service performance by allowing
bandwidth-hungry applications such as digital imaging, electronic medical
records and picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) to run with
high availability and low latency, which helps increase productivity from
its geographically dispersed workforce. The added support of ePoE in the
Catalyst 3750-E Series provides solid investment protection and deployment
simplicity as the hospital aims to deploy its 802.11n wireless network, a
network that represents the next generation of wireless mobile
communications. The combination of the Catalyst 3750-E and the Cisco
Aironet® 1250 Series Access Point delivers next-generation 802.11n
wireless with greater performance and the industry's only full single-port
Power-over-Ethernet solution.
"Our vision is to be one of the best integrated health systems in the
United States, and we needed superior network performance to realize that
goal," said Daryl Bouma, chief technology officer at Sanford Health. "The
Cisco Catalyst 3750-E Series allowed us to deploy a highly secure converged
network that meets performance demands while delivering the utmost security
required by a healthcare organization. It also offers reduced downtime, a
critical factor when dealing with matters of health and well-being.
"As our organization grows and the healthcare industry embraces more
multimedia and collaborative technologies, the Catalyst 3750-E will allow
us to easily respond. For example, it will enable us to upgrade to 10
Gigabit Ethernet uplinks so we can prepare our network for a seamless
transition to IEEE 802.11n and upcoming applications such as video."
British Medical Association Works for a Better Health Service
With more than two-thirds of practicing British doctors in its membership
ranks, the British Medical Association (BMA) chose a Cisco intelligent
network to deliver key applications that it relies on to provide membership
and professional services to its 135,000 members.
BMA replaced its aging network with Cisco Catalyst 6500 and the Catalyst
3750-E Series Switches without interrupting business operations or
application availability during the rollout. With the Catalyst 3750-E
Series, BMA has also future-proofed its network for business growth because
of the unique Cisco TwinGig Converter Module, which will allow BMA to
easily change two Gigabit Ethernet uplinks to a 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplink
as business demands grow.
"Cisco SMARTnet® services exceeded British Medial Association's
expectations with full support for all aspects of deploying, operating and
optimizing an integrated network that supports our 135,000 members and
applications," said Tony Wood, senior network analyst at British Medical
Association. "Cisco offered us an industry-leading 10 Gigabit
Ethernet-ready Catalyst switch solution that is backed by the best service
available anywhere."
University of Plymouth Provides Excellence and Innovation in Teaching and
Research
With the growing demand of its more than 30,000 students and 3,000 staff,
including researchers, for enhanced collaboration and communication
applications, the University of Plymouth implemented a Cisco Catalyst 6500,
3750-E and 3560-E Series-based network to support unified messaging and
wireless across the campus. Delivered on a converged network that supports
data, voice and video, the University of Plymouth achieved significant cost
efficiencies, simplified management and built a more flexible, highly
secure network.
One of the United Kingdom's most prominent and innovative universities, the
University of Plymouth continually raises the bar by introducing new ways
of educating its students such as providing multicast lectures and video
conferencing. The University of Plymouth is also prepared to address
increases in more network-centric and bandwidth intensive collaboration
applications in the future with its 10 Gigabit Ethernet network.
"The innovations in the Cisco Catalyst 3750-E and 3560-E Series such as the
enhanced PoE and 10 Gigabit Ethernet flexibility greatly simplified our
deployment of wireless and IP telephony throughout the University of
Plymouth," said Martin Godfrey, network and telephony manager, University
of Plymouth. "It allowed us to achieve reliable communications and
collaboration between students and staff no matter where they are and
helped the university to achieve even higher academic standards."
Cisco ePoE and PoE Solutions for Highly Secure Converged Networks
With the introduction of ePoE to the Cisco Catalyst 3750-E and 3560-E
Series, customers can now take full advantage of all the performance
enhancements and rich-media applications support over wireless connectivity
that 802.11n can offer. Enhanced Power-over-Ethernet enables single-port
power to support the 802.11n Cisco Aironet 1250 Series Access Point,
eliminating the need for a separate power injector, an additional Ethernet
cable or a power cord. This internal innovation of ePoE provides up to
18.5 watts per port on the family of Catalyst 3750-E and 3560-E Series
today with the future rollout across the Catalyst 6500 and 4500-E Series
portfolio scheduled for the second quarter of this calendar year.
To increase productivity in small businesses and branch offices, Cisco
introduced PoE into the Catalyst 2960 Series, thus enabling rich
application and services support such as mobility and converged voice, data
and video applications. Cisco also introduced the new Catalyst 2960
Compact Powered Device (PD), which receives power from an upstream PoE
device thus eliminating the need for an internal power supply. This new
capability extends the reach of the network beyond the wiring closet to
meet the growing demand from users in collaborative work environments.
Reducing Space and Power Reliance: New Additions to Catalyst 3560-E Series
The Cisco Catalyst 3560-E Series has been extended with the introduction of
a 12-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch and a 12-port 1 Gigabit Ethernet
switch with two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports to help customers migrate
smoothly from Gigabit Ethernet to 10 Gigabit Ethernet as their business
requirements change. Ideally suited for space- and power-constrained
environments due to their compact one-rack unit (RU) form factor, these
newest additions increase employee productivity and deliver
high-availability features such as fast switch convergence, dual power
supplies and redundant fans to support business-critical applications.
The Catalyst 3560E-12D and 3560E-12SD are suited to support real-time
converged applications such as Cisco TelePresence, Cisco Unified
Communications and intensive client-server applications by providing highly
secure unified network services with Layer 3 and Layer 2 feature sets and
Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) and IPv6 support.
Pricing and Expected Availability
Product U.S. List Price Expected
Availa-
bility
Cisco Catalyst 3750-E with Enhanced PoE No additional charge as Now
is included in the base
software, thus depends
on the model.
Cisco Catalyst 3560-E with Enhanced PoE No additional charge as Now
is included in the base
software, thus depends
on the model.
Cisco Catalyst 3560E-12D
12-port 10GbE X2 (or TwinGig) switch $20,000 Now
Catalyst 3560E-12SD
12-port GbE SFP + 2-port 10GbE X2 switch $15,995 Now
Catalyst 2960 PoE
24-port 10/100 with PoE + 2 combo ports
switch $2,995 Now
Catalyst 2960 PoE
24-port 10/100 including 8 PoE ports +
2 10/100/1000 ports $1,795 Now
Catalyst 2960 Compact Power Device (PD) Scheduled
8-port 10/100 with 1 10/100/1000 port February
powered by PoE $795 08
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