Two new products have been launched by Cisco to help businesses increase their network capacity, according to reports.
Cisco's Catalyst 6500 Series virtual switching system 1440 line of switches has been paired with a software engine which allows virtualisation of the switching hardware, website ZDNet reports.
It combines multiple switches which then act as a single node on the network.
Richard Hsieh, director of product marketing for its gigabit systems business unit, told the website: "Traditional networks have duplicate switches and boxes for redundancy - when one active connection fails, the passive duplicate picks up the work. And this still takes between 30 to 40 minutes for the whole network to stabilise after a failure.
"But, if you can combine the physical active and passive boxes, you can multiply the network's bandwidth, without having to change much of the infrastructure. And failover is a matter of milliseconds."
The second launch is theCatalyst 4500 E-Series, which is aimed at small to medium-sized enterprises and delivers 320Gbps.
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