The Cisco Catalyst Series offers one of the industry's most complete ranges of intelligent network switches. These offerings provide an ever expanding suite of intelligent services and advanced technologies to strengthen, simplify, and extend the value of your network infrastructure, helping deliver the best investment protection available.

Switches can be split into two categories – fixed-configuration switches and chassis-based modular switches.

Fixed-configuration switches are usually smaller and tend to be 1u in size, with various models containing different types and density of ethernet ports. Some switches can be stacked to enable many ports in a single manageable device – very useful when more than the maximum 48 ports on a single switch are required.

incovo can advise you on which device best suits your requirements.

The advantages of fixed-configuration switches are

• Price
• Physical footprint
• Power
• Range of models

Chassis-based systems offer much more flexibility with a plethora of interface cards and modules to suit every possible requirement.

The advantages of chassis-based switches are:

• Expandability
• Flexibility
• Redundancy
• Speed

See below for more in depth information about each product.