CiscoPro: Products and Solutions
In an effort to provide small and medium size businesses with the
same internetworking capabilities available to large corporations,
Cisco Systems has introduced the CiscoPro product Line. Basically,
it is intended to provide users access to popular business applications
such as Internet access, telecommuting, distributed databases and
high-speed data transfers.
The CiscoPro products fall into two categories:
workgroup
and access solutions. Workgroup solutions
include fixed-configuration and stackable switching solutions for
departmental workgroups;
access solutions include standard internetworking technology packaged for
branch office and professional office environments. Network management for
CiscoPro products is provided by CiscoVision software, a complete PC-based
network management solution under Windows for configuring, monitoring and
managing routers and switches.
CiscoPro Workgroup Solutions
With the acquisition of two of the major players in the switching arena,
Kalpana and Grand Junction, CiscoPro workgroup products are divided into
two main categories.
The EtherSwitch 10/100, 1200, and 1400 have 25 switched Ethernet ports with
varying higher speed options.
EtherSwitch 10/100
This unit features 25 switched dedicated 10Mbps Ethernet ports for high
volume users, and two 100Base-TX high speed connections for server and
backbone connections.
EtherSwitch 1200
This unit also supports 25 switched 10Mbps Ethernet ports and two 10Base-TX
ports. However, the 25 switched ports are not limited to 1 MAC address, so
hubs and other connection devices can be attached.
EtherSwitch 1400
The most flexible of the Grand Junction switches, the EtherSwitch 1400
supports 25 switched, multi-MAC address 10Mbps Ethernet ports. However,
instead of two Fast Ethernet ports, the 1400 has two High Speed expansion
ports which can support various configurations.
There are modules for:
- One-port 100Base-TX
- Eight-port 100Base-TX
- One-port 100Base-FX
- Four-port 100Base-FX
- FDDI UTP SAS (CDDI)
- FDDI fiber SAS
- FDDI fiber DAS
EtherSwitch 500
The CPW500 features five switched 10Mbps ports and is primarily designed to
give small office environments a boost to their network performance.
EtherSwitch 2115
The CPW2115 has a modular chassis that accommodates any combination of three
5-port, hot-swappable expansion cards that provide 10Base-T, 10Base2, and
10Base-FL media support.
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