Greater Application Control and Advanced Security Services in the Campus and WAN Edge Deliver Optimal Customer Experience of Business ApplicationsKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - May 7, 2007 – In today’s anytime, anywhere business environment, new interactive multi-media applications are increasingly deployed across the campus and the extended network to enhance productivity and innovation. To help ensure positive experiences with new applications such as Internet Protocol (IP) video, voice over IP (VoIP) and TelePresence while maintaining industry-leading service levels for existing business-critical applications, Cisco® today introduced the Cisco Catalyst® 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 32 with Programmable Intelligent Services Accelerator (PISA) technology.
“The focus on collaboration, productivity and customer satisfaction is increasingly critical for Asian-based companies to achieve and/or maintain market leadership position,” said Sandra Ng, Vice President, Asia/Pacific Communications, Peripherals and Services Research, IDC Asia Pacific. “This has led to organizations looking at new technologies, new solutions to innovate with the goal of creating competitive advantage in the marketplace they operate in. The need for more secure, intelligent and faster access to applications and business tools is driving the need for more advanced services at the network edge. IT and network managers are therefore looking beyond basic monitoring to find solutions that provide greater visibility and control as an integral part of the network.” Transforming the Campus Edge with Application Intelligence and Advanced Security The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 32 with PISA integrates deep packet-inspection capabilities to enable IT managers to identify applications on the network and then allocate the necessary network resources to support each application based on business priorities. In this manner, IT managers can help ensure that when end users are accessing business-critical applications they have the best possible experiences. The new Supervisor Engine 32 with PISA also provides distributed protection against notable worms and viruses and day-zero attacks in the campus edge using Flexible Packet Matching (FPM) technology. These new capabilities are hardware-accelerated on the new Supervisor Engine 32 with PISA and therefore can scale to multi-gigabit speeds. Transforming the WAN with End-to-End Services Cisco helps customers extend and scale services consistently and with industry-leading security from the campus network to the WAN edge and remote office with the introduction of the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 32 with PISA and the Cisco 7201 Router. Cisco Catalyst 6500 leadership with integrated services such as firewalls, IP Security (IPsec) and embedded application-aware intelligence makes the latest addition of PISA technology well-suited for enterprise WAN edge deployments. The Cisco 7201 Router extends the Cisco 7200 Series and provides a dramatic increase in performance compared with previous generations, along with lower power consumption. In a compact one-rack-unit form factor with four built-in Gigabit Ethernet ports, the Cisco 7201 Router is ideal for WAN and metropolitan-area network (MAN) applications for both service providers and enterprises. “Cisco continues to build innovative solutions with advanced features that meet our customers' current and future application performance and high security needs for the LAN, MAN and WAN,” said Marie Hattar, senior director of Cisco Network Systems. “Companies can now consider the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 32 with PISA and Cisco 7201 Router for a complete, end-to-end network services infrastructure that can easily grow and evolve with their business needs.” About Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Visit to: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/index.html |
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