The Cisco 6500 Ethernet switches were introduced in 1999 and have been deployed by more than 45,000 organizations. Cisco has continued to come out with additional supervisor modules and interface ...

Cisco Tuesday took dead aim at HP and its own shrinking profit margins by introducing a major refresh to its venerable Catalyst 6500 Ethernet switching platform. The company announced at Cisco Live in ...

Formally announced at Cisco Live in Las Vegas, the updated Catalyst 6500 completes an ongoing refresh of Cisco's broader switching and routing portfolios that's taken place over the past 18 months.

"Cisco gets criticised a lot for the age of these switches, because the 6500 and 4500 are kind of old," said Yankee Group senior vice president Zeus Kerravala. "Yeah, they're old, but they've had a ...