The upgrades to the Catalyst 4500 and 6500 come at a time when Cisco is taking a lot of flack for the age of both switches, which were released around 1999. "Cisco gets criticised a lot for the age of ...

Cisco doesn’t just want to sell you switches. It also wants to be your power distribution vendor. New line cards for the Catalyst 4500 switches support Universal Power Over Ethernet (UPoE), a means of ...

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. The recall was ...

Cisco Systems Tuesday unveiled new technology that will add virtualization, increased capacity and improved performance to its mainstay modular switch platforms. The San Jose, Calif.-based vendor is ...

Cisco Systems has made several improvements to its Ethernet switches to protect businesses from security threats and help them run Internet Protocol telephony more reliably. On Tuesday, the company ...

We're replacing a couple layer 3 switches (3750, 3550) in our environment. I've been looking at mostly 3850s but just got a quote back for a 4500x that's a bit cheaper. We don't do much on our network ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Cisco ...