Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 for HP c-Class Chassis

New in Box: Cisco Blade for the c-Class Chassis by HP.

410916-B21 HP Item number.

The Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 for HP c-Class BladeSystem provides HP customers with an integrated switching platform providing Cisco resiliency, advanced security and enhanced manageability to the server edge while dramatically reducing cabling requirements. The Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 capitalizes on your current Cisco network infrastructure to reduce the total cost of implementation and ownership. By utilizing the advanced Cisco end-to-end management framework, customers can simplify current and future deployments reducing implementation and management costs.

Flexible to fit your needs - The Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 is designed with sixteen internal 1Gb downlinks and eight 1Gb RJ-45 copper uplinks. Up to four uplinks can be optionally configured as fiber SX links. Two uplinks can optionally be configured as internal cross-connects.

What's new

• Wire speed switching on sixteen internal 1Gb ports.
• Wire Speed switching on eight external 10/100/1000BASE-T ports. (Two of these ports can be used as cross-connects to provide failover protection).
• Four external 10/100/1000 SFP based ports that can be configured in lieu of the 10/100/1000BASE-T ports to support Fiber SX SFP modules from Cisco Systems.
• One external console port.

• CiscoWorks Software that includes multilayer feature configurations such as routing protocols, ACLs, and QoS parameters.
• IOS CLI support providing a common user interface and command set with all Cisco routers and Cisco Catalyst desktop switches.
• The Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 supports an embedded Remote Monitoring (RMON) software agent for enhanced traffic management, monitoring and analysis.

• 410916-B21 Qty. 1 Cisco Blade Switch 3020 for HP c-Class BladeSystem

• VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network is a logical network topology configured on top of a physical network topology which conserves bandwidth and improves security by limiting traffic to specific groups of devices.
• Supports Cisco's Identity-Based Networking Services (IBNS) which prevents unauthorized network access and insures that users get only their designated privileges.
• Compatible with Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) so that user security profiles and authentication follow the user regardless of where they connect on the network.
• Access Control Lists (ACL's) are maintained in hardware for maximum performance and can be used to guard against denial-of-service and other attacks.

Ideal environment

Enterprise and Data Center customers

• Cisco IOS-networking integrated directly into the HP BladeSystem server architecture joins the fabric of the Cisco infrastructure with HP's computing fabric.