Cisco Beefs Up Switching with Catalyst 6800
Cisco increases switching density and performance in new Catalyst family.
By
Sean Michael Kerner | Jun 24, 2013
Today Cisco announced a new switching platform, built on a very familiar name and history.
The Catalyst 6800 isn't just any new
switch, though. It's an extension of Cisco's popular Catalyst 6500
platform, one of the most widely deployed switching platforms in the
history of computing. According to Cisco, there are over 800,000
Catalyst 6500s in its deployment base.
"The Catalyst 6800 is the 6500 on steroids," Inbar Lasser-Raab, senior director of marketing for enterprise networking at Cisco, told Enterprise Networking Planet.
The Catalyst 6800 platform benefits from a new chassis design and includes updated silcon. The ASIC is EARL8, which the Nexus 7K platform also uses. This ASIC is optimized for scalable core deployments with rich services and will offer programmability with Cisco's Software Defined Networking efforts, including onePK and OpenFlow.
The Catalyst 6800 isn't just any new switch, though. It's an extension of Cisco's popular Catalyst 6500 platform, one of the most widely deployed switching platforms in the history of computing. According to Cisco, there are over 800,000 Catalyst 6500s in its deployment base.
"The Catalyst 6800 is the 6500 on steroids," Inbar Lasser-Raab, senior director of marketing for enterprise networking at Cisco, told Enterprise Networking Planet.
The Catalyst 6800 platform benefits from a new chassis design and includes updated silcon. The ASIC is EARL8, which the Nexus 7K platform also uses. This ASIC is optimized for scalable core deployments with rich services and will offer programmability with Cisco's Software Defined Networking efforts, including onePK and OpenFlow.
"The Catalyst 6800 is the 6500 on steroids," Inbar Lasser-Raab, senior director of marketing for enterprise networking at Cisco, told Enterprise Networking Planet.
The Catalyst 6800 platform benefits from a new chassis design and includes updated silcon. The ASIC is EARL8, which the Nexus 7K platform also uses. This ASIC is optimized for scalable core deployments with rich services and will offer programmability with Cisco's Software Defined Networking efforts, including onePK and OpenFlow.
The Catalyst 6800 isn't just any new switch, though. It's an extension of Cisco's popular Catalyst 6500 platform, one of the most widely deployed switching platforms in the history of computing. According to Cisco, there are over 800,000 Catalyst 6500s in its deployment base.
"The Catalyst 6800 is the 6500 on steroids," Inbar Lasser-Raab, senior director of marketing for enterprise networking at Cisco, told Enterprise Networking Planet.
The Catalyst 6800 platform benefits from a new chassis design and includes updated silcon. The ASIC is EARL8, which the Nexus 7K platform also uses. This ASIC is optimized for scalable core deployments with rich services and will offer programmability with Cisco's Software Defined Networking efforts, including onePK and OpenFlow.
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