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Cisco Confidential

C97-502409-00

Video on

Demand

Wireless
Mobility

Collaboration
Tools

21st-Century Branches:
Taking a Bigger Role

New Business Applications

Interactive

Business

Source: Nemerts Research Virtual Workplace—
Branch Office Strategies

Number of Branches

Grows 10% per Year

90% of New Employees

Work in Branches

Summary of Contents for 2975 - Catalyst LAN Base Switch

Page 2: ...deo on Demand Wireless Mobility Collaboration Tools 21st Century Branches Taking a Bigger Role New Business Applications Interactive Business Source Nemerts Research Virtual Workplace Branch Office Strategies Number of Branches Grows 10 per Year 90 of New Employees Work in Branches ...

Page 3: ...fidential C97 502409 00 Branch Office Customer Challenges Lack of branch office IT support staff Growing number of branch offices straining budgets Need ability to connect diverse device types Meeting regulatory compliance Need for 24 hour network uptime 3 ...

Page 4: ...ing Disparate Data Voice Networks Unified Voice Data Video Network Platform Struggling to Keep Up with Security Self Defending Networks Limited Mobility Limited Disaster Recovery High Availability Unified Wireless Wireline Business Unmanaged Networks Scalable Management Inconsistent Branches and Branch HQ solutions Consistent Branches and Branch HQ Services ...

Page 5: ...st of a system Operational and opportunity costs outweigh capital expenditures Capital Expenditures 20 Operational Costs 80 Troubleshooting Maintenance Skilled Technical Staff Facilities Productivity Lost Lost Opportunity Costs Missed or Delayed Business Opportunities Due to Unavailable Technologies Network Costs 20 Purchase 80 Operations Source Gartner Group 2005 ...

Page 6: ...ity Configuration and Support Complexity Security and Regulatory Demands Conflicting Performance Criteria Higher Costs for Incremental Services Higher Recurring Expenses Minimal Opportunities for Automation Multiple Maintenance Contracts Minimal Synergies Between Applications Lack of Business Agility and High Upgrade Costs ...

Page 9: ...ew applications and growing business requirements Solution Support multicast video with IGMP enhancements Cisco Intelligent Power Management for IP phones and wireless access points Quality of service rate limiting and classification for granular network traffic prioritization and control Benefits Faster deployment for services and applications Flexibility and agility ...

Page 11: ...ncreases as business processes depend on network availability and performance Solution Industry leading quality and high mean time before failure MTBF Network stability with single spanning tree instance for a stack Fast link convergence using FlexLink Time Domain Reflectometry TDR for cable diagnostics Benefits Business continuity Greater employee productivity ...

Page 12: ...rational complexity and expense Costly Stall business operations Solution Unified stack management for up to nine switches in a stack Auto software image and configuration provisioning and plug and play hardware replacement Support for CiscoWorks LAN Management System LMS Cisco Network Assistant Benefits Simplified manageability Fast and easy configuration ...

Page 13: ...branch and HQ networks cause operational problems and are difficult to troubleshoot Solution Common Cisco IOS for consistent implementation of services across Cisco devices Auto QoS for consistent traffic classification across Cisco devices Cisco Smartports for consistent port based configuration macros Benefits Increased productivity of IT staff Streamlining network management ...

Page 16: ... switches routers and firewalls and unlimited IP phones and access points Interactive topology and front panel views Configuration monitoring troubleshooting and network optimization Highlight your VLANs Telnet to devices drag n drop IOS upgrades Localized in French Italian German Spanish Chinese and Japanese Free download www cisco com go cna 700K Downloads 700K Downloads ...

Page 18: ... 2975 switches are targeted for 96 port commercial branch offices and wiring closets Cisco Catalyst 2975 switches deliver intelligent LAN services with enhanced Layer 2 security quality of service and availability Cisco Catalyst 2975 switches lower operational costs with unified stack management and automated provisioning ...