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Cisco sets industry first with new levels of services aggregation for customers demanding increased performance and flexibility with the most widely deployed WAN aggregation router
Cisco Systemsโ today announced three new products for the Cisco? 7200 Series Routers, delivering wide-area network (WAN) and metropolitan-area network (MAN) services aggregation with a unique combination of scalability, value, performance and flexibility. The new products help ensure that customers meet the increasing requirements of headquarters locations for power, security and capacity, driven by integrated services such as advanced security, voice and video deployed by branch offices.
The Cisco 7200 routing platform has been particularly successful in the Asia Pacific region which accounts for approximately 15 per cent of the total worldwide deployment of Cisco 7200s. The enhancements are expected to drive greater adoption of the product in the region.
The new Cisco 7200 Network Processing Engine (NPE-G2), Cisco 7200 VPN Services Adapter (VSA), and Cisco 7200 Port Adapter Jacket Card set a new benchmark for highly secure, services aggregation routing at optical carrier-3 (OC-3) and gigabit Ethernet (GE) speeds.
“As Cisco’s technology portfolio expands, we continue to maintain our commitment to innovation in our routing products. Routers will continue to be the heart of the Internet and wide-area networks but they need to keep pace with the evolution towards Intelligent Information Networks. Today’s announcement is a demonstration of Cisco’s continued focus to develop routing technology,” said Gary Coman, director for Product Management, Asia Pacific, Cisco Systems.
Asia Pacific customers of the Cisco 7200 router include People’s Bank of China, and LG. “We are extremely happy with the performance and reliability of the Cisco 7200 series router,” said Mr. Chen LiWu, Network Director of China Financial Computerization Corporation, a division of People’s Bank of China.
“We are very satisfied with our decision to go with the Cisco 7200 in our network. I believe that the new innovations will enable Cisco to keep its market leadership in the Enterprise WAN routing area,” said H.Y KIM, IT Manager of LG CNS LG*Net.
More Secure, Powerful, Flexible and Scalable Services Aggregation
Services integration into the Cisco 7200 Series Routers helps customers reduce operating costs and simplify installation, maintenance and network management. In addition, the ability to add advanced services without the need for forklift upgrades protects the customer’s original investment.
The Cisco 7200 NPE-G2 is the newest routing engine for the Cisco 7200VXR chassis. With double the performance for multiple services from previous generations and full Cisco IOS? Software feature support, the Cisco 7200 NPE-G2 has the highest performance and scalability within the family of network processing engines. Additional features include threat defense, highly secure virtual private network (VPN) connectivity, network admission control and voice/IP-to-IP gateway functions.
The Cisco 7200 VSA is a VPN hardware acceleration module that can provide up to triple performance improvement when combined with the Cisco 7200 NPE-G2 card. This increased performance supports large-scale IPsec aggregation architectures and more secure Cisco IOS Software connectivity.
To meet the increasing needs of flexibility and capacity, the Cisco 7200 Port Adapter Jacket Card addresses the demand for additional slot density. The I/O slot can now hold a single port adapter for additional capacity on systems with the Cisco 7200 NPE-G1 and later Network Processing Engine. This provides a cost-effective way to increase the slot density in parallel with the increased switching capacity of the newest engine—the Cisco 7200 NPE-G2.
Architectural Approach Grows with Changing Business Needs
Cisco provides aggregation customers with architectures based on proven Cisco 7200 deployments. As part of the Cisco Service Oriented Networking Architecture (SONA), these scalable architectures help customers decrease deployment times and design overhead costs while integrating services such as security, voice and video into WAN and MAN infrastructures. Cisco also offers Cisco Lifecycle Services to help customers with ongoing network operation and optimization services. The architectures combined with customer services help enable IT organizations better support and scale to changing business needs, and drive overall business growth and efficiency.
Cisco Product Pricing, Availability and More Information
Cisco Product List Pricing Availability
Cisco 7200 Series Network Processing Engine $19,000 May 2006
Cisco 7200 VPN Services Adapter $15,000 CY06H2
Cisco 7200 Port Adapter Jacket Card $1,250 Now
For more information about the products announced today, visit: www.cisco.com/go/servicesaggregation .
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