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Cisco Delivers “Monster” Catalyst Switch, Routers for SDN Environments

Posted on June 25, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco officials are refreshing the company’s campus and edge switches and routers, bringing greater programmability to the appliances as the company looks to continue pushing forward with its Cisco Open…

How to Configure the Voice VLAN Feature on the Catalyst 2960 and 2960-S Switches?

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

In this article we will describe the Voice VLAN CONFIGURATION on Cisco 2960 and Catalyst 2960-S switches? You need to be clear that the term switch refers to a standalone…

Wi-Fi Alliance Announces 802.11ac Certification

Posted on June 21, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Preface: The Wi-Fi Alliance announces its Wi-Fi Certified ac certification program, which aims to guarantee the interoperability of 802.11ac-enabled devices regardless of their hardware vendors or type of clients. On…

Cisco Catalyst 3750-X: Redundant StackPower Cabling Information

Posted on June 19, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

In this article we will describe the recommended cabling configurations for a StackPower stack. There are two types of StackPower cables. The cable in Figure 1 connects a Catalyst 3750-X switch to…

Cisco Platform Exchange Grid (pxGrid) Overview

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

The age of information has created the need for even more information. This is especially true in today’s IT infrastructure, where keeping a network and its connected devices secured and…

Cisco pxGrid Aims for Greater Network Security

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

Cisco is inviting security software developers to create applications for Cisco’s ISE management software with the pxGrid platform. Cisco officials are using the company’s Identity Services Engine as a cornerstone…

Rob Lloyd Will Be Cisco’s Next CEO?

Posted on June 17, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco CEO John Chambers will turn 64 years old this August. In the 18 years Chambers has been running the company, he has continually talked about and put off his…

5 Green Network Products to Prevent Energy Waste in the Data Center

Posted on June 14, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Earth day or other activities of protecting the world are always reminding us of energy crisis. In networking field, we also call for green network and less power consumption. Data…

Cisco Catalyst Access Switching

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

According to Cisco, Catalyst Access Switches address the major market discontinuities enterprises are facing in their campus access networks: The explosion of wireless devices in campus networks, the growth of…

Cisco CRS-X Core Router to Offer 10 Times Capacity of Original

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

Preface: CRS-X Delivers 10 Times the Capacity of CRS-1, Providing Lasting Investment Protection for More Than 750 Customers and 10,000 Systems Deployed Worldwide. Cisco has unveiled its third generation CRS…

Cisco Catalyst 2960-X Series Switches Debut at Cisco Partner Summit

Posted on June 7, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

On June 4th, 2013, Cisco announced that it upgraded its best-selling Catalyst switch by doubling its stacked port density, stacking bandwidth, buffers and CPU performance at Annual Cisco Partner Summit event.…

Cisco ASA Firewall can be Used as a Router?

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

The ASA 5505 has 8 ports, but in the base license only 2 vlans can be created. The other 6 ports are simply switch ports that can be placed in…

Internet of Everything, SDN Hot Topics in Cisco Partner Summit 2013

Posted on June 4, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco Partner Summit is the event of the year for the global Cisco channel community, and it gets mighty busy and collect most Cisco participants. With Cisco Systems’ Partner Summit 2013 coming…

Cisco Predicts Massive Data Networking Growth by 2017

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

M2M ramps up, helps contribute to zettabyte era. There are three sure things in life – death, taxes, and the insatiable hunger of people for more and more bandwidth. By…

How to Connect to a Cisco Standard Console Port (RJ-45)?

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

Step1. Connect laptop serial port to Cisco device’s console port. Below are two examples. Figure1a shows laptop with DB-9 serial port connected to Cisco device console port. Connect the RJ-45 to…

Using the Cisco 5500 Series Controller USB Console Port

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

The USB console port on the Cisco 5500 Series Controllers connects directly to the USB connector of a PC using a USB Type A-to-5-pin mini Type B cable. Note1: The…

Cisco USB Console Port

Posted on May 29, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Due to the high prices of the USB To Serial cable converter used to connect to the console cable of CISCO devices, CISCO has recently added a new USB console…

Cisco Router with Cisco ASA for Internet Access

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

A classic network scenario for many enterprises is to have a Cisco border router for internet access and a Cisco ASA firewall behind this router for protection of the internal…

Site to Site VPN between ASA Firewall & Cisco Router

Posted on May 23, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Here, in this article we will tell that how to configure Site-to-Site IPSEC VPN between a Cisco IOS Router and ASA Firewall. ASA configuration is not much different from Cisco…

Networks in 2020: More Traffic, Less Energy

Posted on May 23, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

The GreenTouch industry consortium says new technologies could cut power consumption by 90 percent. Networks could use far less energy by 2020 even though they’ll be carrying much more traffic,…

DHCP Relay on the Nexus7000/NXOS Vs. IP Helper on the 6500/IoS

Posted on May 20, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

IP helper (now DHCP relay) works differently on the Nexus 7000 than on the Cisco 6500. The N7K imposes a VACL to filter local DHCP broadcast traffic, under the assumption…

How to Configure site-to-site IPSEC VPN on Cisco ASA using IKEv2?

Posted on May 17, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

The scenario of configuring site-to-site VPN between two Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances is often used by companies that have more than one geographical location sharing the same resources, documents, servers,…