Cisco offers a wide variety of connectivity components to accommodate the range of application needs in customer networks. The network components assure customers that they can choose a connectivity solution that fits their requirements.This 5-Gbps nonblocking shared-memory switch supports 32K permanent virtual circuits/switched virtual circuits (PVCs/SVCs) (including soft virtual channel connections [VCCs] and virtual path connections [VPCs]) based on the successful Catalyst 8500.