Hewlett Packard is questioning Cisco's assertion that its upgraded Catalyst 6500 switch provides better investment protection and value than a comparable data networking switch infrastructure from HP.

NEW YORK — As Cisco wraps up migrating its Catalyst 6500 installed base to either the E-series chassis or the Nexus platform, the company has plenty on tap next year for the venerable core switch.

The upgrades to the Catalyst 4500 and 6500 come at a time when Cisco is taking a lot of flack for the age of both switches, which were released around 1999. "Cisco gets criticised a lot for the age of ...

SAN JOSE — By the end of 2015, all of Cisco’s Catalyst 6500 data center customers will have deployed the company’s new Nexus 9000 switch. That’s not to say they will have retired all of their Catalyst ...

"There's a lot of play partners can do with the existing installed base," said Scott Gainey, Cisco's director of switching solutions, in an interview with CRN. "This is a pretty seamless upgrade ...

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. — Cisco Systems Inc. has taken dead aim at Hewlett-Packard Co. and its own shrinking profit margins by introducing a major refresh to its venerable Catalyst 6500 Ethernet switching ...

introduction in 1999 and has a $42 billion installed base, nearly 700,000 systems/110 million ports deployed and more than 25,000 customers worldwide. from 720 Gbps to 2 Tbps, a threefold increase. It ...

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Greetings.<BR><BR>I'm currently working on a project and I've run into an interesting roadblock. <BR><BR>I have two core nodes and eight distribution nodes on the network, each Catalyst 6500 series ...

Cisco Systems Inc. is preparing to add significant wireless capabilities to its most popular Ethernet switch that will, among other things, enable mobile users to roam among access points without ...