CPP_Cisco_Product_Positioning_15H1

Router

Cisco 800 ISR:                              Enterprise level small office router.

Cisco ISR G2 (19/29/39):           Enterprise level router, being replaced by 4000 ISR.

Cisco 4000 ISR:                                     Latest enterprise level router, replacing previous ISR G2 (19/29/39).

Cisco ASR 1000 router:              SP and large enterprise aggregation router.

Cisco ASR 9000 router:              SP aggregation router. Mainstream, supports 9000v for massive GE-fan-out.

Cisco ASR 900 router:                SP edge router (in front of aggregation, also called pre-aggregation router)

Cisco 7600 router:                      SP and large enterprise aggregation router, being replaced by ASR 1000 and 9000.

Cisco XR 12000 / 12000:           SP core and aggregation router, being replaced by CRS, ASR and latest NCS router.

Cisco NCS 6000:                           Latest SP core router, replacing 12000 and CRS.

Cisco CRS 1/3/X:                          Previous generation SP core router, being replaced by NCS 6000.

Switch

Catalyst 2960-C/3560-C:           Quiet and non-wire closet switch, good for retail, FE downlink, L2 and L3.

Catalyst 2960:                             Standard FE downlink switch, L2.

Catalyst 2960-S/-X:                     Standard GE downlink switch, L2.

Catalyst 3560-X/3650:               Standard GE downlink switch, L3.

Catalyst 3750-X/3850:               Standard GE downlink switch, L3, StackWise.

Catalyst 4500-E:                          Standard GE and 10GE modular switch, L3, 880G capacity, medium MAC and IP scale.

Catalyst 4500-X:                          Standard 10GE modular 1-2RU switch, L3, medium MAC a  nd IP scale. Good for small campus core and data center, replacing previous Catalyst 4900 series.

Catalyst 6500:                             Standard GE, 10GE and 40GE modular switch, L3, 1.28T capacity, big MAC and IP scale. Not recommended for new data center, being replaced by the new Catalyst 6800 series.

Catalyst 6800:                             Replacing the classic Catalyst 6500, adding to 880G per slot capacity, 10/40/100GE enabled, onePK for SDN, VS4O (new VSS), etc.

Nexus 3000/3500:                      Top-of-rack (ToR). 1~2RU, huge capacity (700G~1Tb+), 10/40GE downlinks, 3500 series are good for high-frequency trade, with sub-250ns latency, SDN for both Openflow and OnePK.

Nexus 5000:                                 Rack aggregation (smaller), 1~2RU, huge capacity. Support LAN/SAN convergence (FC/FCoE).

Nexus 6000:                                 Rack aggregation (bigger), 1 or 6 RU, huge capacity. 6004 supports 96 40GE. FCoE included. Analytics tools included.

Nexus 7000:                                 Data center core, 10/40/100GE supported.

Nexus 9000:                                 Data center core, 10/40/100GE supported, plus SDN, ACI architecture.

NCS 4000:                                              Latest IP over DWDM (colored light line card), IP + OTN + MPLS-TP switching.

MDS 9700/9200:                        Multilayer storage director, 2/4/8/10Gbps FC. Pure storage switch.

Nexus 2000:                                 Fabric Extender, works as fan-out of Nexus 3000/5000/6000/7000/9000 line card.

Nexus 1000v:             1000v is virtual switch in various environments.

Nexus VSM-CSP/VSG/AVS:   VSM is the virtual switch controller, installed in dedicated hardware called CSP (a UCS server). VSG is the virtual switch gateway. AVS is the APIC virtual switch controller.

ME 1200:                                      Access Carrier Ethernet switch, SDN, MEF 2.0, timing, OAM.

ME 3600X / 3800X:                    Aggregation Carrier Ethernet switch, being replaced by the new ASR 900 routers.

ME 4900:                                      Aggregation Carrier Ethernet switch, being replaced by the new ASR 9000/1000/900 routers.

 

Meraki Cloud Switches:             Cloud-based switches, L7 features, not through Cisco existing channels.

Optical

NCS 2000:                            DWDM + OTN, nLight ROADM, Raman-EDFA combined EDRA, CPAK-based 100G, WSON-G.MPLS.

15454E M2/M6:                Classic optical platform, DWDM Mux, SDH.

CPT 600/200/50:               Classic OTN / PTN platform.

Computing

UCS Invicta-Series:            Flash-based server.

UCS M-Series:                     Modular server, 2RU.

UCS B-Series:                      Blade server, 6RU.

UCS C-Series:                      Rack server.