Big News from the Cisco Small Business Team

Happy Thursday all.

Yesterday, my brethren Product Manager, Ivor Diedricks announced his new 10 Gigabit Small Business Switch. This is the first 10 Gigabit Switch in the Small Business Series. This is an important announcement in that we are the only one (save one) to come to market with such a product for the SMB space. With its 10 Gigabit over copper interfaces, SMB’s can connect Servers and Storage devices cost-effectively for an optimal core deployment. This new switch has eight 10GBase-T copper, eight SFP+ slots and up to eight switches can be connected in a single stack. Ivor provides more color into the features of the new switch in his general availability release which also announced several new models for the 300 and 500 Series Switches which provide fantastic performance, ease-of-use, best-of-breed features and industry-leading warranty.

Thanks for taking the time to take a look today. Make it a great day.

Here’s Ivor’s Announcement:

The Small Business product team is pleased to announce the immediate orderability of a new 10 Gigabit switch together with several new models of the 300 and 500 series switches. Small Business switches deliver great value for SMB customers with outstanding ease of use, best of breed features and peace of mind warranty. And we continue to evolve the portfolio with the constant software updates.

The new SG500XG-8F8T switch features 8 ports of 10GBase-T copper for cost-effective, high speed connectivity to Servers and Storage devices. Additionally, there are 8 SFP+ slots for 10 Gigabit long-range connectivity over fiber for backbone, stacking, or host connectivity. Up to 8 units can be connected in a single stack and may be paired with SG500X switches in the same stack. It comes with a rich feature set including VRRP Resiliency, IPv6 First Hop Security, Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE), Auto Smartports, CDP, and numerous Time-based capabilities for enabling items such as POE, ACLs, and 802.1x according to a schedule.

The new POE models expand the 300 and 500 Series portfolio with support for higher density POE capability, together with all models supporting IEEE 802.3az (POE+). The 300 and 500 series switches now incorporates full and half power POE models, thereby giving customers the options to select the models which best meets their needs. The new switches comes with all the rich feature set available with these product families.