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What is Cisco Chassis, Backplane, and Line Card?
Chassis, You Know Here: A Chassis is a frame/housing for mounting the circuit components for Cisco Switches and Routers or any type of devices that provides power and a high-speed backplane. The frame also protects all of the vital internal equipment...
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How to Connect Cisco Console Cable to PC/Laptop Running Linux?
People who work with Cisco network equipment need to be able to connect to the console port on their devices. In Windows, you can simply fire up HyperTerminal to get basic access to your devices. If you are using Linux, then you need to know how this...
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Cisco Catalyst 4500 Switches, Key Features and Hot Models
The Cisco Catalyst 4500 switch is a mid-range modular chassis network switch manufactured by Cisco Systems. A Cisco Catalyst 4500 comprises a chassis, power supplies, one or two supervisors, line cards and service modules. The Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series...
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Cisco 6500 Series: Retired Veteran or Re-discovered Super Soldier?
Why Cisco 6500 Series is here to stay? Tried and true isn't a descriptor awarded lightly. It's earned only after emerging battle-hardened from the front lines. It doesn't matter if you're the only survivor of the super-soldier program, or the flagship...
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Cisco OnPlus: Managed Network Services Through SMB VARs
Cisco OnPlus Service is offered at a list price of $250, which includes an OnPlus Network Agent appliance. Expanding on its offerings to small business partners, networking specialist Cisco announced a cloud-based service called OnPlus that offers channel...
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Cisco Static Routes FAQ: How to Use It?
Static routes while manually intensive to keep up, are a very quick and effective way to route data from one subnet to different subnet. Let’s start with the basics. What is a static route? - a static route is a hard coded path in the router that specifies...
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Network Switches: Functions & Types of Switches
Functions of a Network Switch A switch is a device that is used at the Access or OSI Layer 2; a switch can be used to connect multiple hosts (PCs) to the network. Unlike a hub, a switch forwards a message to a specific host. When any host on the network...
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How a Network Switch Forward Frames in Ethernet Network
A switch uses different method of forwarding frames in Ethernet network. These methods are: Store-and-Forward or Cut-through Switching. Store-and-Forward Switching In store-and-forward switching, when the switch receives the frame, it stores the received...
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Secure Networking
Secure Networking Our Self-Defending Network is an architectural solution designed for the evolving security landscape. Security is integrated everywhere and with the help of a lifecycle services approach, enterprises can design, implement, operate and...
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What Is a Layer 3 Switch? Router vs. Layer 3 Switches
Layer 3 switches were conceived as a technology to improve on the performance of routers used in large local area networks (LANs) like corporate intranets. The key difference between Layer 3 switches and routers lies in the hardware technology used to...
