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Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Line Cards Overview

Posted on February 12, 2014 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

As the foundation for Enterprise Networks, Cisco 4500 Switch provides high-performance, mobile and secure user experiences through Layer 2-4 switching to meet current and future network demands. Its centralized, innovative, and flexible system design helps ensure smooth migration to wire-speed…

Layer-3 Switching or Layer-2 Switching?

Posted on February 10, 2014 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Have you ever faced designing a campus network or similar network of hospitals, factories and organizations? How to design a better network? What factors you need to count in? Here we found a case study provided by Ivan Pepelnjak (CCIE…

Routers vs. Network Switches

Posted on January 23, 2014 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

If you need to choose a router or a switch to set up a network for your business, what you will take into consideration? As we known, router and network switch are necessary computer networking devices. They allow one or…

Types of Wireless Network & Wireless Topologies

Posted on January 9, 2014 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

In order to design and implement Cisco Wireless solutions successfully, CCNA Wireless students need to be familiar with the options for various wireless topologies. Two were defined by the 802.11 committees, while others were made possible thanks to excellent developments by…

EoS and EoL Announcement for the Cisco Catalyst 3560V2&3750V2 Switches

Posted on January 8, 2014 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco announced the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the Cisco Catalyst 3560V2 and 3750V2 Switches. The last day to order the affected products is November 14, 2015. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco…

Cisco Catalyst 3850 Password Recovery

Posted on January 2, 2014 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

“I’m trying to do password recovery on a Catalyst 3850 switch, and I can’t figure out what I have to actually do.” For network users it is a common problem that you lost or forgot the password of a network…

Cisco Unified Access Review

Posted on December 31, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

We know that Cisco Unified Access intelligently connects people, processes, data, and things from vision to reality. It simplifies the connected world and meets today’s IT needs. Cisco Unified Access provides IT with the platform it needs to adapt to…

Cisco Unified Access: From Vision to Reality

Posted on December 31, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

When we look back on the last year, we found that Cisco has released a lot of innovations focused on optimizing how IT defines and enforces policy; how they gain visibility of users, applications and devices; and how they simplify…

Check Cisco Routers and Switches Using the IOS Environment Command

Posted on December 30, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

If your remote router and switches are being cooled properly, how do you know that? Are the fans working? In the following article David Davis will tell you how to see the environmental status of your Cisco routers and switches…

Cisco ASA Failover, Failover Modes & ASA Failover Configuration

Posted on December 30, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

At a high level, What the ASA failover is? It is simple to describe the Cisco ASA failover: Two devices are connected to the network as they normally would be, and they are connected to each other to communicate failover…

Cisco Announced EoS and EoL for ASA 5500 Series Software Release 8.3&8.6

Posted on December 27, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco announced the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco ASA 5500 Series Software Release 8.3 and 8.6. The last day to order the affected product(s) is May 27, 2014. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive…

EoS & EoL Announcement for Cisco Catalyst 6500 ASA Services Module Software Release 8.5(x)

Posted on December 27, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco delivered the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series ASA Services Module Software Release 8.5(x). The last day to order the affected product(s) is June 16, 2014. Customers with active service contracts will continue to…

WAYS to Help You Set Up Your Small, Medium and Large Networks

Posted on December 26, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Are you finding it challenging to set up your network? For newcomers, setting up an efficient network can be daunting. To help you establish a robust network for your business using Cisco hardware, we have summarized five effective methods. Browse…

Cisco’s 2013: A look Back at Its Major Moves

Posted on December 26, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

At the end of this year, most people enjoy Christmas holidays with their family. Everyone may make the list of his major events in 2013. What are yours? For Cisco, the past year saw several major events and product introductions…

Cisco Announced CCIE R&S Version 5

Posted on December 24, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco announced the much awaited update for CCIE Routing and Switching from version 4 to version 5. It’s a good move as CCIE R & S version 5 is there since pretty long time. The official launch for the version…

Show ip route

Posted on December 18, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

To display the current state of the routing table, use the show ip route command in user EXEC or privileged EXEC mode. The show ip route command is a powerful tool to use at this point in your search. You…

Big Sale Days of the Year, Hot Cisco Products 2013

Posted on December 16, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Big Discount with Christmas Sale Router-switch.com Releases the Hot Cisco Products 2013 Every December of the year, all kinds of online stores released their activities of big sale to make the clients save more while purchasing goods. Router-switch.com, as a…

Show processes memory

Posted on December 13, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

The show memory exec command is often used to check the amount of a router’s free memory. In troubleshooting cases where router performance is the focus, this is a major command used to see the statistics about the router’s memory. To show…

Cisco ASA IPS Module Configuration

Posted on December 11, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

For almost all companies are connected to the Internet, the threat of network attacks is an inevitable problem that they need to face. So there is often a need to set up some type of intrusion detection system (IDS) or…

Configure logging in Cisco IOS

Posted on December 10, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Knowing how to properly use logging is a necessary skill for any network administrator, and the Cisco IOS offers many options for logging. Logging can use for fault notification, network forensics, and security auditing. Cisco routers log messages can handle…

Show module command

Posted on December 6, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Show modules: To display the module status and information, use the show module command in user EXEC or privileged EXEC mode. How to display information for all modules on a Catalyst 6500 series switch that is configured with a Supervisor…

Show controllers command

Posted on December 3, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

“I’m a little confused on what the “show controllers” commands really do… can someone clarify? Based on the output, I’m inclined to suspect that it provides mostly physical layer type information about an interface. From a troubleshooting perspective, when is…