Cisco Systems announced significant enhancements to its core and edge routing portfolio, including:
- new Cisco 12800 Routers, a 40 Gbps-per-slot system with complementary higher density OC-192/STM-64 and OC-48/STM-16 line cards that use the greater system capacity. The new platform supports all available Cisco 12000 Series line cards.
- new Cisco 12010 and 12006 Routers, which are 2.5 Gbps-per-slot systems offered in 10- and six-slot chassis. When coupled with the Cisco IP Services Engine (ISE) line card, the new platforms support critical IPv4 and IPv6 features such as QoS and multicast for delivering premium data and real-time voice and video services. The new chassis support all existing 2.5-Gbps line cards and can be upgraded to a 10 Gbps systems through a software key.
- a new Cisco 12000 Series Performance Route Processor-2 (PRP-2) that improves route scalability by doubling CPU performance, and increasing memory for large route tables to support up to 4 million routes.
- a new Cisco 12000 Series 1-Port Channelized OC-12c/STM-4c (DS1/E1) POS ISE Line Card that enables customers to combine dense channelization functionality for low-speed termination with high-density, high-performance OC-192/STM-64 and OC-48/STM-16 interfaces in a single chassis.
- a new Cisco 12000 Series 4-Port OC3/STM1 ATM ISE Line Card that delivers extensive traffic queuing, shaping and congestion management hardware features and transports ATM over MPLS, providing service providers an opportunity to converge ATM core traffic over an MPLS backbone.
- a new Supervisor Engine 720-3BXL system processor for the Cisco 7600 Series that enables additional Layer 2 and Layer 3 MPLS VPN and IPv6 services, and greater scalability.
- an Enhanced FlexWAN module that doubles the service performance while using existing Cisco 7200 and Cisco 7500 port adapters.
Comcast is using the latest additions to Cisco's core and edge routing portfolio to introduce new services, including higher speed Internet access, video on demand (VoD), and VoIP.
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