A company offers mobile email to its employees, who can then react faster to requests.

A company implements collaboration solutions, which simplified information exchange.

A company changes its security strategy from "lock down" to "secure access from anywhere", so that users are "always-on" and can easily work remotely.

A company implements EnergyWise solutions, which drastically reduce energy costs.

A company provides support for a BYOD solution, which increases the investment and requires network upgrades, but provides limited improvements

A Layer 2 switch operates up to the data linklayer of the OSI network model.

A Layer 3 switch operates up to the transportlayer of the OSI network model.

A dual-layer switch operates at the transport and data link layers of the OSI network model.

A dual-layer switch operates at the data link and network layers of the OSI network model.

A multilayer switch operates up to Layer 4 of the OSI network model.

High availability?

Integrated services?

Network access control?

Application performance?

The Cisco Catalyst 3560 v2 and CiscoCatalyst 3560-X are stackable.

The Cisco Catalyst 3750 v2 and CiscoCatalyst 3750-X are stackable.

The Cisco Catalyst 2000 series support 802.1X and MACsec encryption.

The Cisco Catalyst 2000 series support PoE and PoE+, but they do not support 60 W per port like the Cisco Catalyst 3000and Cisco Catalyst 4000 series.

The C3KX-NM-10GT service module offers two 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFTP+ ports.

The C3KX-NM-10G and the C3KX-NM-10GT service modules provide flexible netflow.

The C3KX-SM-10G service module provides flexible netflow.

The C3KX-SM-10G service module offersMACsec encryption at line rate.