Cisco is one of the most famous was American manufacturer of telecommunication hardware based in California, USA. This company was started in the year 1984 by a couple called Len Bosack, and Sandy Lerner. The name comes as an abbreviation of San Francisco. The company’s logo represents the Golden Gate Bridge. Originally the company manufactured only enterprise routing equipments; however it now deals in a variety of devices for both enterprises, and telecommunications carrier. The company mainly deals in switches, routers, and firewalls.
The Cisco catalyst 3550 series switch is a stackable, multilayer switch providing high availability, quality of service (Qos), high performance IP routing, maintains the ease of traditional LAN switching and security to enhance network operations. It is equipped with Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet configurations that serve as an excellent access layer switch for medium enterprise wiring and as the backbone switch for small enterprises. The integrated Cisco Cluster Management Suite (CMS) software allows the users to configure and troubleshoot multiple Catalyst 3550 desktop switches, using the standard Web-based browser.
The Cisco 3550 comes in different variations such as Cisco Catalyst 3550 24 port switch with EMI, Cisco Catalyst 3550 48 switch, Cisco Catalyst 3550 48 port switch, and Cisco Catalyst 3550 10 port Gigabit switch. These swictches make use of the built-in Gigabit Ethernet ports that provide a host of GBIC transceivers, including the Cisco GigaStack GBIC, 1000BASE-T, 1000BASE-SX, 1000BASE-LX/LH, 1000BASE-ZX and CWDM GBICs. In addition, the incorporated Cisco Network Assistant offers user-friendly GUI interface to easily configure, troubleshoot, and monitor the network. |
