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March 04, 2008

Network

Cisco ASR 1000 Series
Cisco ASR 1000 Series routers offer service providers and enterprises industry-leading performance, service capabilities, reliability, and efficiencies in a compact form factor. Using an innovative new Cisco QuantumFlow processor, current and future services can be instantly turned on to operate at line rate without compromising network performance or availability.

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is a modular data center-class switching system designed for 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks. The Cisco Nexus architecture scales beyond 15 terabits per second, with future availability of 40Gb and 100 Gb Ethernet and unified fabric I/O modules. This new platform is designed for exceptional scalability, continuous systems operation, and transport flexibility.

Cisco Catalyst 6500 VSS
The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Virtual Switching System is the latest from the Cisco Internet Switching Business Unit which is responsible for the Catalyst 6500 line of products.

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Cisco Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000 Series

The Cisco ASR 1000 Series consists of three different versions: the Cisco ASR 1002 Router, the Cisco ASR 1004 Router, and the Cisco ASR 1006 Router. All three models use the new innovative and powerful Cisco QuantumFlow Processor which provides a huge leap in performance and resiliency for network processors.

The Cisco ASR 1000 Series provides a significant enhanced value compared to prior generations of Cisco midrange routing solutions by providing more than tenfold performance improvement with services running. Additionally, the routers have hardware and software redundancy, as well as an industry-leading high-availability design.

The Cisco ASR 1000 Series delivers multiple services embedded in the Cisco QuantumFlow Processor at wire speeds of up to 10 Gbps. The services supported on the Cisco Packet QuantumFlow Processor include security services (for example, encryption and firewall), quality of service (QoS), Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR), Cisco IOS® Flexible Packet Matching, broadband aggregation, and session border controller, among others.

With the separation of the control and data planes in the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router architecture, software redundancy (on the Cisco ASR 1002 and 1004 models) and hardware redundancy (on the Cisco ASR 1006 Router) are provided. Additionally, the modular Cisco IOS XE Software that is introduced with the Cisco ASR 1000 Series facilitates In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU).