Cisco Expands Borderless Networks Portfolio

Cisco has unveiled new products and services across all the functional elements of its Borderless Network architecture— the switching, routing, security and wireless portfolios. Notable additions include the Cisco Catalyst switch, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance firewall and compact Cisco ASR 1000 Series router in their classes; new entry-level 802.11n wireless access points for smaller businesses; and new and enhanced smart-services offerings.

Additionally, Cisco announced the Application Velocity Network Service, a new network service that accelerates application performance physically and virtually.

High-Performance and High-Density Innovations:

- The Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series switch: It delivers 848 gigabits per second of system bandwidth and the highest density of 384 Power over Ethernet Plus (PoEP)-capable ports.

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- The Cisco ASA 5585-X Adaptive Security Appliance: It delivers MultiScale performance in a compact two-rack-unit form factor.

- The Cisco ASR 1001 router: It delivers up to 5Gbps performance throughput with services turned on, enabling deployment agility in high-end enterprise branch, WAN edge and managed services environments.

- The Cisco Aironet 1040 Series Access Point: It expands Cisco’s mobility portfolio and accelerates the adoption of 802.11n.

End-User Security and Energy-Saving Enhancements:

- Cisco AnyConnect 3.0: It further expands network endpoint capabilities with new IPsec IKEv2 support in addition to Secure Sockets Layer and Datagram Transport Layer Security, an integrated 802.1X supplicant, and 802.1AE MACSec support.

- Cisco EnergyWise: It can deliver even cost savings by rapidly growing Cisco Developer Network partnerships to include APC by Schneider Electric, Cyber Switching, Raritan, Server Technology and WTI.

Deployment and Optimisation Innovations:

- SBA Enterprise: A series of prescriptive blueprints to help simplify a phased approach to planning and deployment, lets customers with up to 10,000 connected devices deploy Borderless Networks using Cisco tested and validated solutions.

- CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution 4.0: Provides a comprehensive and fully integrated management tool with intuitive work centers to automate workflows and ease deployment for Borderless Network services such as Cisco EnergyWise and Cisco TrustSec.

- Cisco Smart Net Total Care Service: It scales to large enterprises, provides IT professionals the unique ability to see exactly what is going on in their networks.

- Smart Care: For mid-market customers, Cisco is combining complementary strengths of Cisco Services and its certified partners, to cover more products and much larger networks, and deliver proactive, network-level support.

Brett Galloway, Senior Vice President, Wireless, Security & Routing Technology Group, Cisco said, “IT managers want to use the network to support the needs of the business. But the business is changing, and IT managers are under increasing pressure to make the network available to anyone, anywhere, anytime and on any device—in a highly secure, reliable, seamless manner. This is precisely the challenge that the Cisco Borderless Network was designed to address. This third expansion of the Borderless Networks portfolio is designed to help customers reach new levels of innovation and participation by engaging their customers and employees to create entirely new ways of doing business.”