Cisco WS-C4900M Manual page 2

Cisco's Portfolio of LAN Switches
Scalable, intelligent LAN switching for Campus, Branch, and Data Center
networks of all sizes.
This is your guide to Cisco's portfolio of switches, the industry's most advanced and
versatile portfolio of modular, fixed-configuration, blade, and virtual LAN switches for
your campus, branch, or data center.
Individually, these switches offer the performance and features required for nearly any
deployment, from traditional small workgroups, wiring closets, and network cores, to
highly virtualized and converged corporate data centers. Working together, they are the
building blocks of an integrated network that delivers scalable and intelligent services
protecting, optimizing, and growing your network as your business needs evolve.
The network is the platform delivering business agility and efficiency. However, the
proliferation of connected devices coupled with new requirements around secure
application delivery, bandwidth-intense rich media applications, energy efficiency,
as well as the need to deliver access to these applications anywhere, anytime, has
left networks, and network managers, looking for holistic and simple solutions to their
business challenges.
Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking systems for organizations of every size,
offers an architectural approach to networking that makes it easy for organizations
to adapt and grow within and across geographic boundaries. Through a secure and
intelligent infrastructure that delivers non-stop application availability and performance
coupled with seamless scalability, supporting a growing number of connected devices,
rich media applications, as well as physical and virtual resources in a converged
infrastructures is made simple.