The Catalyst and wireless network upgrades reflect Cisco's two-prong product strategy of strengthening its on-premises and cloud-managed technology, which also includes security, said Rohit Mehra, an analyst at IDC.

The company also introduced stackable Meraki MS Switches that feature 16 or 32 1 Gbps ports, and hot-swappable power supplies and fans. It's available with 24 or 48 fixed PoE+ GbE ports.įor wireless networks, Cisco introduced 802.11ac Wave 2 access points under the Aironet and cloud-managed Meraki brands. The hardware mirrors the 3650 family of switches in a 1RU form factor. With the latest switch engines, Cisco introduced the Catalyst 3650-Mini for companies with space-constrained locations. The 8L-E has up to 560 Gbps of wired switching capacity and can handle independent packets simultaneously at a rate of 48 Gbps. The 6T is compatible with 10 Gb, 40 Gb and 100 Gb line cards, and has 8 x 10 GbE and 2 x 40 GbE uplinks to support high-performance applications. As a result, the supervisor engine can increase switch capacity to 6 Tbps and scale to 12 Tbps when in the Virtual Switching System configuration. The 6T raises speeds to 400 Gbps per slot on the Catalyst 6807-XL chassis. Switch engines, which are the brains of the Catalyst, extend the usefulness of the hardware as application-driven network traffic rises. In general, the Catalyst switches are designed for the campus backbone, the wiring closet, or a small office or retail network. Both switch engines are scheduled to ship in April. The former is for the Catalyst 6700, 68 series, while Cisco has aimed the latter at the 4500E. The company has R&D facilities based in Israel.Cisco introduced two supervisor engines this week - the 6T and 8L-E. Sedona Systems, founded in 2013, employs 45 people and has raised a total of $13.5 million from investors including Intel Capital, according to LinkedIn and Crunchbase. Cisco said that Acacia’s technology will strengthen its innovation capabilities across software, silicon and optics, and enhance Cisco’s Internet for the Future strategy. In March, the company introduced three new additions to the Cisco Silicon One portfolio, a product family that provides the highest bandwidth routing and switching silicon in a unified product portfolio, according to San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco.Ĭisco also in March closed its $4.5 billion Acacia Communications purchase after two months of back-and-forth on the deal with the company. The Sedona NetFusion platform is the first to deliver complete network abstraction and control, allowing to manage their networks across domains, vendors, layers, and a myriad of different technologies, all as one single network,” said Wollenweber in a blog post on the proposed deal.Ĭisco has been building out its “Internet of the Future” vision in recent months. “To create an inclusive future for all, we must reinvent the Internet and fundamentally change the economics to build and operate networks at massive scale … HCO is the brain that enables transformation like 5G network slicing, routed optical networking, and disaggregation. Sedona NetFusion joining the Cisco Crosswork portfolio will give the company “the most advanced network automation platform” for Cisco’s Routed Optical Networking Solution, he said. Kevin Wollenweber, vice president of product management, Service Provider Network Systems, said that Cisco has one goal for network automation: simplification. These products reduce the complexity, cost, time, and resources needed to plan, forecast, and operate the optimal network infrastructure, according to Sedona Systems.

The NetFusion platform automatically discovers, aggregates, and analyzes network data from multiple online systems and optical and IP sources, providing real-time, network-wide data that is then used by different NetFusion products.

However, Israeli business news site Calcalist estimated the deal to be worth $100 million. The two companies did not disclose financial details of the transaction. The networking giant revealed its intent to buy Palo Alto, Calif.-based Sedona Systems on Tuesday for its NetFusion platform, its Hierarchical Controller (HCO) for optimizing, simplifying and automating network control. Cisco Systems plans to acquire Sedonasys Systems, also known as Sedona Systems, a maker of communications technologies.

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