Wednesday 26 September 2012

Suggestions on how to Select Cisco Products

Cisco is a technology boon, always running to satisfy customers regarding their needs and adapt quickly to new technology. Clients are provided with cutting edge products based upon the requirements.  They offer specialized network management and WAN solutions or security across the globe. Find out the best products related to network with ease and reliability. Cisco partners in Afghanistan make all products available in Pakistan and Afghanistan market for all kind of clients.  
High speed connections like E-1 and T-1 suggest advantages to WAN technologies. Some other WAN technologies are there; include Frame Relay, ISDN connections. But if a connection is required for longer duration then leased line or a Frame Relay should be used. Cisco products can fulfill the requirements for your office base upon the facilities provided by your service provider. 





Router Selection:

Cisco is popular for their routers. Before selecting any router you must know the port density and interface speed needed bottom on LAN/WAN technology used. Investigate the performance and capacity requirements of your business to identify the correct product. Therefore the cost of the router changes with features you desire for.

Switches Selection:

Newer networks use switches instead of hub. One advantage of Hub over the switch is that hub can easily sniff traffic, however, switches are configured to reduce collision domains. This issue can be solved by enabling mirroring on the switch. Other important factors to select switch are: port density, business requirements, trunking and inter switch links and the kind of user interface.    

Criteria for Cisco product selection

Consider the following points for choosing the right products among the Cisco for your network environment:
o   Decide the nature of device to be used as core device, distribution or access?
o   Will the device facilitate functions that your business need ?
o   Does the device ahs suitable no. of ports and interfaces perfect for the business?
o   Consider the cost of installation
o   Consider the physical or central management of the device
o   Does migration will be easy?
o   Analyze the needs to change existing infrastructure like cabling or other devices?

The listing can be useful to decide the right product for your network but if you wish for more information  then go to the Cisco’ official site.