Cisco has announced the release of Cisco Borderless Access. This portion of the company's Borderless Networks architecture comprises products and services  that enables seamless and secure wired-wireless communications, business-wide energy management, and the delivery of video applications.

As part of this architecture, Cisco is introducing a new series of fixed-switching product lines, Cisco Catalyst 3560/3750-X Series and 2960-S Series, that provide a suite of new professional services offerings, flexible pricing, and limited lifetime warranty. In addition to its switching lines, it has also announced new routing products.

Cisco Catalyst 3750-X and 3560-X are stackable and standalone switches with 10 gigabit Ethernet, full PoE+ on all ports and a flexible smart uplink module. In addition to StackWise Plus, which provides high availability to the data path, Cisco also introduced Cisco StackPower, power interconnect technology that brings unprecedented power resiliency to a stack of Catalyst 3750-X Series switches. With Cisco StackPower, the power supplies in a stack of up to four switches can be shared as a common resource among all the switches. In the event of power supply failures, power is maintained for business-critical applications while shedding power for lower-priority devices as defined by the user. A single 1100-watt power supply can provide power to four switches and the mission-critical end points attached to them, helping to ensure business continuity. The Catalyst 3750-X and 3560-X Series switches also ship with Cisco Smart Operations a set of tools and capabilities allowing for zero-touch deployment and installation in a borderless network.

Cisco had announced Borderless Networks vision in October 2009 and the Cisco Secure Borderless Networks earlier this month. The Cisco Borderless Networks architecture, which defines the attributes necessary for supporting businesses that are increasingly distributed and mobile, is designed to enable businesses to connect anyone to anything, anywhere, and anytime in a secure, reliable and seamless environment.

Architecture comprises of video, energy management and secure networking services that are embedded across its routing, switching, wireless and security platforms to form a borderless networking solution.

As part of the Network Services Cisco has launched EnergyWise, which utilises network intelligence control energy consumption and lower operating costs and carbon footprint. Today Cisco also released the EnergyWise SDK, available through the Cisco Developer Network, which enables third-party developers to implement EnergyWise support in their products.

It also launched Cisco TrustSec, a security solution allowing customers to deploy security policies across all access technologies, including wired, wireless or virtual private networks. It combines identity and policy to help protect both customer and employee transactions.

Medianet is another solution that has been launched. It enables the detection and optimization of video and video endpoints, as well as the allocation and prioritization of network resources so that video can be delivered from one type of device, such as a Cisco TelePresence unit, to another type, such as a laptop or mobile phone. Medianet 1.0 is now supported on the new Catalyst fixed switches and Cisco ISR G2 routers.

"Communications, collaboration and entertainment are fast becoming digitized and connected, and this trend is not only loading networks but also changing them. Cisco's core networking business, including the Catalyst 2000 and 3000 families, is at the heart of this change. Switching and routing are the foundation for innovation that will bring the next generation of the Internet to life. Cisco's strategy is to deliver greater value within its core networking offerings and, in turn, provide customers with a more cohesive, architecturally sound IT infrastructure to support the new Internet." said Rob Soderbery, senior vice president and general manager, Cisco Ethernet Switching Technology Group