Increasing demands on the network - such as increased traffic, business growth, convergence, new applications and technologies like IP Telephony and Gigabit Ethernet - leave the network struggling to perform. In order to ensure continuous network efficiency and business productivity, companies today need higher performance, intelligent and secure networks.

Intelligent Networks can ease the pain associated with new network demands. Intelligent switches offer much more than raw bandwidth and connectivity. They look deeper into data streams than standard Layer 2 switches, identifying not only the devices involved in network traffic, but also the users and applications. That's what makes them intelligent - the ability to forward data and apply services based on a deeper understanding of the millions of data packets streaming through the network at any given time.

Cisco switching solutions offer the highest performance multi-layer (access, distribution, core) intelligent switching solutions, enabling new network services that improve business productivity - like IP Telephony, Security, Gigabit Ethernet and Wireless LAN.