Cisco: New Reality Transforms Corporate Networks

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As Cisco notes, those corporate customers who selected equipment (switches, routers, access points) for their local networks with a reserve that took into account the constantly growing requirements for network performance were able to avoid the difficulties that companies that upgraded their networks only after noticing an obvious drop in their performance faced during the mass transition to remote work.

If we turn to Cisco equipment, then to create such a reserve, as Anna Komsha, Cisco Corporate Network Solutions Manager in Russia, believes, it is not at all necessary to always choose only the senior models in the lines - the optimal reserve can be maintained if you promptly switch to equipment with new functionality and a long service life (and for Russian users, according to her, Cisco network equipment works for 7-10 years or more). For example, instead of the Catalyst 2960 and 2960x switches popular in Russia, which will soon be discontinued, Anna Komsha recommends paying attention to the Catalyst 9200 model with modern functionality, which was launched on the Russian market in 2020, and is quite comparable in price to the Catalyst 2960x.

Considering that in the conditions of remote work, routers bolivia whatsapp data the brunt of the increased load of VPN service termination, the company significantly updated its router lines in 2020. Thus, Cisco ASR 900 and ASR 1000 routers replaced Cisco 800 routers, popular when building networks in company branches. The ASR 1000 models are slightly more expensive than the ASR 900, but they have the new Cisco IOS XE operating system installed, which allows these devices to be used to build not only a classic corporate network architecture, but also to support SD-WAN technology.