Broadband Aggregation Solution for Service Providers

Worldwide broadband access continues its fast-paced growth as consumers and businesses alike adopt this cost-effective, high-speed Internet connectivity. While service providers continue to scale their offerings they must find ways to simplify operations and increase individual subscriber revenue. Broadband aggregation is the glue that dynamically binds subscribers to the critical revenue generating services that carriers must deliver.

Only Cisco delivers Broadband Aggregation capabilities on a comprehensive set of routers that are right-sized to meet a variety of network requirements – from WiFi hot-spots to carrier-grade aggregation for millions of subscribers. With the broadest feature set to support a wide array of broadband service architectures, only Cisco delivers leading features and price/session solutions. It is this portfolio that enables service providers to cost-effectively deploy broadband services across a variety of access technologies including Cable, DSL, Ethernet, WiFi and Mobile networks.

All Cisco Broadband Aggregation products power LAC, PTA, LNS and Tunnel Switch (TS) architectures. This comprehensive Broadband Aggregation feature set can be found on the following IP/MPLS edge routers:

• Cisco 10000 Series: Carrier-class delivery of over 60,000 simultaneous subscriber sessions, tightly coupled with proven high availability and rich service-enabling features. Ideal for ATM LAC or PTA environments with robust ATM interfaces, high-density VC support and patent-pending auto-VC creation/provisioning capabilities.
• Cisco 7600 Series: High-performance Ethernet subscriber services powered by the Multiprocessor WAN Applications Module (MWAM) for the Cisco 7600. Supports up to 32,000 PPPoE sessions, 16,000 L2TP tunnels and 16,000 SSG subscribers per module. First product to integrate high-density Ethernet switching and carrier-grade IP/MPLS routing with BRAS functionality.
• Cisco 7301: The highest performing single-rack unit router in the industry. The Cisco 7301, with 3 built-in GE interfaces, supports the widest range of features and up to 16,000 simultaneous subscriber sessions.
• Cisco 7200 Series: The most widely deployed Broadband Aggregation solution in the industry comes in a compact (3 RU), modular universal router that supports the widest variety of interfaces and Cisco IOS features. Supports up to 16,000 simultaneous subscriber sessions using the Cisco 7200 NPE-G1 processor.

Cisco Broadband Aggregation Portfolio highlights:

• High Density Capacity – interfaces, system capacity without a forklift upgrade
• Simplified Operations – Auto VC creation and provisioning, reduced configuration complexity, comprehensive management and provisioning
• High Availability – industry proven 99.999% design in carrier-grade systems with the industry’s leading session setup rate.
• Cisco IP/MPLS IOS-based services – the most comprehensive feature set, with hardware accelerated premium services including stateful firewall, content filtering, security and the broadest set of layer 2/layer 3 VPN protocols.
• System Scalability – industry-leading scale and flexible form-factors from 1 RU with 16,000 subscribers to industry’s highest density system with over 60,000 subscriber sessions.

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