I need to change out a blade in a 4510R soon. I'll be replacing a 48port 10/100 with a 48port 10/100/1000 blade.The Cisco docs say the blades are hot swappable. The switch should acknowledge a ...

Cisco has issued a recall for the fan tray units of its new Catalyst 4500 LAN switches after internal testing determined that they can short circuit and render the switch inoperable.

Cisco today released updates to its modular Catalyst 4500 and 6500 switch series to add more capacity, scalability and redundancy.

The Cisco 3850 is an access switch while the 4500X is an aggregation but both are layer 3 switches.The 4500 actually has bigger buffer.If this is not for data center deployment then you can go ...

They are aimed at Cisco’s Catalyst 4500 series with the Supervisor 8 engine, and HP – which calls the new generation 5400R a Catalyst 4500 “killer” – claims the new switches offer 43% ...

“It costs [Cisco] more money to provide maintenance for those products,” Orans says of the 4500, 4700 and 7500 product lines.

Cisco also has made adjustments to the warranty for its wiring closet gear, expanding the warranty from 90 days to a limited lifetime warranty for the Catalyst 3000-E and 4500 switches.

Let’s take one of the more common routers in use today — the Cisco 4500-M. Its throughput capabilities are similar to the systems we tested.

HP is touting its new 5400R zl2 Switch Series as a Cisco Catalyst 4500 'killer,' especially given its support of the OpenFlow protcol and HP's SDN controller.

Cisco Systems Inc. this week announced its Catalyst 4500 series modular switches with improved redundancy over the company's previous midsize chassis.The Catalyst 4500 family of switches is ...