A Wall Street analyst firm report says that Cisco is readying a Catalyst 6500 switch upgrade that will double bandwidth on the device, offering customers greater support for 10G Ethernet LANs. The ...

Cisco Tuesday took dead aim at HP and its own shrinking profit margins by introducing a major refresh to its venerable Catalyst 6500 Ethernet switching platform. The company announced at Cisco Live in ...

"Cisco gets criticised a lot for the age of these switches, because the 6500 and 4500 are kind of old," said Yankee Group senior vice president Zeus Kerravala. "Yeah, they're old, but they've had a ...

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. — Cisco Systems Inc. has taken dead aim at Hewlett-Packard Co. and its own shrinking profit margins by introducing a major refresh to its venerable Catalyst 6500 Ethernet switching ...

Hewlett Packard is questioning Cisco's assertion that its upgraded Catalyst 6500 switch provides better investment protection and value than a comparable data networking switch infrastructure from HP.

"It's the most successful networking product in the industry today," John Growdon, director of routers and switches for worldwide channels at Cisco, said in a phone interview. The Catalyst 6500 family ...

Cisco Systems on Monday plans to unveil several upgrades for one of its more popular products, the Catalyst 6500 line of switches. Most of the new gear is geared toward making the switches faster.

This screen shows two stand-alone Catalyst 6500 switches equipped with the Virtual Switching Supervisor 720-10G blade, both running HSRP (Hot Standby Router Protocol) and ready to be converted into a ...

Hello.<P>I'm having an issue with a 6500 switch when new network connections are initialized. Basically, when a new connection is brought up (either by booting a machine, or plugging an already-booted ...

I have a 6500 series Cisco switch at the core. I want to include a 3Com 7700 series switch for resiliency at the core layer. Can you tell me the interoperability issues that may arise including VRRP ...