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Application Networking Services
New Documents
•Release Note for the Cisco Application Control Engine Module (Software Version A2(2(X))
Describes the resolved and open caveats, and CLI command changes for software version A2(2.0) of the ACE module.
Revised Documents
•Release Note for the Cisco Application Control Engine Module (Software Version A2(X))
Describes the resolved and open caveats, and CLI command changes for software version A2(1.4) of the ACE module.
Cisco Interfaces and Modules
New Documents
Introduces support for the Cisco 7600 series 1-port channelized OC-12/STM-4 optical services module (OSM) for the channelized synchronous optical network (SONET) and the synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) shared port adapter (SPA).
•Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers SPAs and SIPs
Describes the configuration and troubleshooting of shared port adapters (SPAs) and SPA interface processors (SIPs) that are supported on Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers.
Cisco IOS and NX-OS Software
New Documents
Provides the basic functions of ATM and compliance with RFC1483.
Provides syslog message support for Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) features.
•Cisco IOS XR Advanced System Command Reference
Describes command syntax and usage guidelines for the following areas: ASIC drivers, troubleshooting, fabric management, tech-support command output, and watchdog.
Provides descriptions of the modes that are available in the user command-line interface (CLI) that is used in Cisco IOS XR software.
•Cisco IOS XR Getting Started Guide
Provides an introduction to the Cisco IOS XR software command-line interface (CLI) and describes the initial router configuration tasks for standalone and multishelf routers.
•Cisco IOS XR Interface and Hardware Component Command Reference
Provides command syntax and usage guidelines for commands used to configure physical and virtual interfaces and additional hardware component types.
•Cisco IOS XR Interface and Hardware Component Configuration Guide
Provides interface configuration and management information and describes a variety of global interfaces.
•Cisco IOS XR Interface and Hardware Component Debug Command Reference
Describes commands used to debug interface and hardware features.
•Cisco IOS XR IP Addresses and Services Command Reference
Describes command syntax and usage guidelines for commands that include Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) and access control lists (ACLs).
•Cisco IOS XR IP Addresses and Services Configuration Guide
Describes concepts and configuration tasks for IP addresses and services technologies that include ARP, access control lists (ACLs), and Cisco Express Forwarding.
•Cisco IOS XR IP Addresses and Services Debug Command Reference
Describes commands used to debug IP address and services features.
•Cisco IOS XR Modular Quality of Service Command Reference
Describes the commands used to display and configure quality of service (QoS) in Cisco IOS XR software.
•Cisco IOS XR Modular Quality of Service Configuration Guide
Describes the Cisco IOS XR quality of service (QoS) feature for prioritizing traffic flows and providing preferential forwarding for higher-priority packets. The QoS techniques described include allocating bandwidth, improving loss characteristics, avoiding and managing network congestion, metering network traffic, and setting traffic-flow priorities across the network.
•Cisco IOS XR Modular Quality of Service Debug Command Reference
Describes commands used to debug the QoS software components.
•Cisco IOS XR Multiprotocol Label Switching Command Reference
Describes command syntax and usage guidelines for MPLS protocols that include Label Distribution Protocol (LDP), and MPLS Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP).
•Cisco IOS XR Multiprotocol Label Switching Configuration Guide
Describes concepts and configuration tasks for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) facilities that include Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) and MPLS Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP).
•Cisco IOS XR Multiprotocol Label Switching Debug Command Reference
Describes commands used to debug MPLS features and facilities.
•Cisco IOS XR Multicast Command Reference
Describes command syntax and usage guidelines for the multicast routing protocols that include Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM), Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP), and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP).
•Cisco IOS XR Multicast Configuration Guide
Describes concepts and configuration tasks for the following technologies: PIM, IGMP, and MSDP.
•Cisco IOS XR Multicast Debug Command Reference
Describes commands used to debug multicast facilities.
•Cisco IOS XR ROM Monitor Guide
Describes configuration information and examples for using the ROM Monitor mode of the Cisco IOS XR software, including the following subjects: ROM Monitor overview and basic procedures.
•Cisco IOS XR Routing Command Reference
Describes command syntax and usage guidelines to configure and monitor routing protocols that include Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS).
•Cisco IOS XR Routing Configuration Guide
Describes concepts and configuration tasks for routing technologies that include BGP, EIGRP, IS-IS, and OSPF.
•Cisco IOS XR Routing Debug Command Reference
Describes commands used to debug the various routing protocols.
•Cisco IOS XR System Error Message Reference Guide
Describes Cisco IOS XR system error messages.
•Cisco IOS XR System Management Command Reference
Describes command syntax and usage guidelines for various system management commands that include Network Time Protocol (NTP), process management, memory management, and terminal services.
•Cisco IOS XR System Management Configuration Guide
Describes configuration tasks and concepts for managing services that include upgrading and managing Cisco IOS XR software packages, and upgrading field-programmable devices (FPD) software.
•Cisco IOS XR System Management Debug Command Reference
Describes commands used to debug the System Manager.
•Cisco IOS XR System Monitoring Command Reference
Describes command syntax and usage guidelines for alarm logs and logging correlation, IP Service Level Agreements (IP SLAs), fault management, logging services, performance management, OnBoard Fault Logging (OBFL), and statistics services.
•Cisco IOS XR System Monitoring Configuration Guide
Describes configuration tasks and concepts for the following technologies: alarm logs and logging correlation, IP Service Level Agreements (IP SLAs), fault management, logging services, performance management, and OnBoard Fault Logging (OBFL).
•Cisco IOS XR System Monitoring Debug Command Reference
Describes the commands used to debug alarm management and logging correlation.
•Cisco IOS XR System Security Command Reference
Describes command syntax and usage guidelines for areas such as Internet Key Exchange (IKE), IPSecurity (IPsec), and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
•Cisco IOS XR System Security Configuration Guide
Describes the tasks that support System Security applications.
•Cisco IOS XR System Security Debug Command Reference
Describes the commands used to debug the System Security software components.
•Cisco IOS XR Task ID Reference Guide
Identifies the task IDs that enable users to perform operations for IOS XR commands.
•Cisco IOS XR Virtual Firewall Command Reference
Describes command syntax and usage guidelines for the two command sets that support the Virtual Firewall (VFW) feature: Cisco IOS XR and SanOS (Linux).
•Cisco IOS XR Virtual Firewall Configuration Guide
Describes the tasks that support creating, monitoring, and maintaining a Virtual Firewall (VFW).
•DHCP—DHCPv6 Individual Address Assignment
Manages nonduplicate address assignment in the correct prefix based on the network where the host is connected.
•DHCP Option 82 Configurable Circuit ID and Remote ID
Provides naming choices in the Option 82 Remote ID and Option 82 Circuit ID suboptions.
•FPG: Endpoint Agnostic Port Allocation
Adds an entry to the symmetric port database.
•L2VPN: Pseudowire Preferential Forwarding
Allows you to configure the pseudowires so that you can use ping and show commands to find status information of the pseudowires before, during, and after a switchover.
•MPLS Support for Multisegment PWs
Enables you to configure two or more Layer 2 pseudowire segments that function as a single pseudowire.
Describes Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR), which is a classification engine that recognizes and classifies a wide variety of protocols and applications.
Allows you to apply class-based weighted fair queueing (CBWFQ) functionality to a virtual circuit (VC).
•PfR—Protocol Independent Route Optimization (PIRO)
Introduces the ability of optimized edge routing (OER) to search for a parent route—an exact matching route or a less specific route—in any IP Routing Information Base (RIB), allowing OER to be deployed in any IP-routed environment including Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs) such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS).
•QoS Policy Support on L2VPN ATM PVPs
Enables you to configure quality of service (QoS) service policies in ATM permanent virtual path (PVP) mode for Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks (L2VPNs).
•Release Notes for Cisco IOS XR Software Release 3.8.0
Describes new, changed, and unique characteristics of this release.
Counters the threats of the Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP), defines a set of neighbor discovery options and two neighbor discovery messages, and defines an autoconfiguration mechanism to establish address ownership.
Revised Documents
•Any Transport over MPLS (AToM): ATM Cell Relay over MPLS: VP Mode
Describes ATM virtual path (VP) trunking over Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS).
•Any Transport over MPLS (AToM): Graceful Restart
Assists neighboring routers that have nonstop forwarding (NSF), stateful switchover (SSO), and graceful restart (GR) for Any Transport over MPLS (AToM) to recover gracefully from an interruption in service.
•Any Transport over MPLS (AToM): Layer 2 QoS (Quality of Service)
Describes the Layer 2 quality of service (QoS) features supported on Any Transport over MPLS (AToM).
•Any Transport over MPLS (AToM): Single Cell Relay—VC Mode (CRoMPLS)
Transports ATM cells across a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) backbone.
•ATM Conditional Debug Support
Allows debugging to be limited specifically to an ATM interface, to a virtual channel identifier (VCI), or to a virtual path identifier/virtual channel identifier (VPI/VCI) pair.
Adds a proprietary extension to the standard ATM MIB (RFC 1695) to provide per-VC statistic counters that are currently displayed in response to the Cisco IOS show atm vc command for a specified virtual circuit.
Sends an ATM Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) packet to confirm the connectivity of a specific permanent virtual circuit (PVC).
•ATM OAM Support for F5 Continuity Check
Provides the ability to detect connectivity failures at the ATM layer by introducing Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) support for F5 segment and end-to-end Continuity Check (CC) cells.
Describes a mechanism for reducing overhead when loopback cells are being used for fault detection in bidirectional virtual circuits (VCs) over ATM.
•ATM PVC F5 OAM Recovery Traps
Adds support for various ATM Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) failure and recovery traps.
•ATM PVC Trap Enhancements for Segment and End AIS/RDI Failures
Adds segment and end alarm indication signal (AIS)/remote defect indication (RDI) failure notification traps to the existing ATM permanent virtual circuit (PVC) trap infrastructure.
Provides the implementation of RFC 2233 (MIB-II) for ATM subinterfaces.
•ATM SNMP Trap and OAM Enhancements
Provides the ability to send Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) notifications for ATM permanent virtual circuits (PVCs) when the PVC state changes and when Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) loopback fails for a PVC.
Specifies AAL5 and AAL0 encapsulations as part of a virtual circuit (VC) class that you can attach to an interface, subinterface, or VC.
Enables you to display the 5-minute traffic rates on virtual path (VP) counters.
Allows you to specify the path that traffic uses.
Introduces support for 4-byte autonomous system numbers.
Provides e-mail-based and web-based notification of critical system events.
Provide detailed information on platform-independent Cisco IOS commands; specifically, on command syntax, defaults, command modes, command history, usage guidelines, and examples.
•Cisco IOS Configuration Guides
Contain Cisco IOS features that are shared across releases and platforms and grouped by technology areas.
Allows you to configure a quality of service (QoS) filter that manages the traffic flow of control plane packets to protect the control plane of Cisco IOS routers and switches against reconnaissance and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
Provides the flexibility to include various configuration options for the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client.
Enables a network administrator to conserve address space by allowing overlapping addresses.
•Enhanced ATM VC Configuration and Management
Simplifies and expedites permanent virtual circuit (PVC) and switched virtual circuit (SVC) configurations and improves the management of PVC and SVC integrity.
Describes a Cisco proprietary Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) MIB for managing an Ethernet infrastructure.
Allows multicast routers to keep reduced state information as compared with unidirectional shared trees in protocol independent multicast-spare mode (PIM-SM).
Provides protection from denial of service (DoS) attacks by allowing you to rate limit IPv6 hop-by-hop (HBH) packets.
•IPv6 Multicast: Address Family Support for Multiprotocol BGP
Provides multicast Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) extensions for IPv6 and supports the same features and functionality as IPv4 BGP.
•IPv6 Source Specific Multicast (SSM) Mapping
Supports both static and dynamic domain name system (DNS) mapping for multicast listener discovery (MLD) version 1 receivers.
Introduces ATM support for In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU).
•ISSU—AToM ATM Attachment Circuit
Allows Any Transport over Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) (AToM) to use In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) on ATM attachment circuits.
•ISSU—MPLS Traffic Engineering (TE): Path Protection
Provides an end-to-end failure recovery mechanism (that is, full path protection) for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) TE tunnels and introduces support for In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU).
•Low Latency Queueing with Priority Percentage Support
Allows you to configure bandwidth as a percentage within low latency queueing (LLQ).
•LSP Ping for FEC 129 (via VCCV)—RFC 4379
Provides extensions to RFC 4379 to support FEC129 types for virtual private LAN service (VPLS) deployments with Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)-based autodiscovery enabled.
•L2VPN PW Redundancy—ATM Attachment Circuits
Introduces support for ATM attachment circuits on L2VPN pseudowires.
•MPLS EM—LSP Ping/Trace for LDP and RSVP IPv4 FECs
Provides troubleshooting capabilities for Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) and Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)-enabled label switched paths (LSPs).
•MPLS EM—MPLS LSP Multipath Tree Trace
Provides the means to discover all the possible paths of a label switched path (LSP) between an egress and ingress router.
•MPLS LSP Ping/Traceroute and AToM VCCV
Provides diagnosis of network problems related to Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) forwarding.
•MPLS Pseudowire Status Signaling
Enables you to configure the router so that it can send pseudowire status to a peer router, even when the attachment circuit is down.
Describes Fast Reroute (FRR) enhancements, including backup tunnel support, backup bandwidth protection, fast tunnel interface down detection, and Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) hellos.
•MPLS TE—Node Protection Desired Bit
Provides the ability to signal node protection.
•MPLS Traffic Engineering and Enhancements
Enables Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) backbone to replicate and expand upon the traffic engineering capabilities of Layer 2 ATM and Frame Relay networks.
•MPLS Traffic Engineering: BFD-Triggered Fast Reroute
Allows you to obtain link and node protection by using the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocol to provide fast forwarding path failure detection times for all media types, encapsulations, topologies, and routing protocols.
•MPLS Traffic Engineering—Configurable Path Calculation Metric for Tunnels
Enables you to control the metric used in path calculation for traffic engineering (TE) tunnels on a per-tunnel basis.
•MPLS Traffic Engineering—Fast Reroute Link and Node Protection
Supports link protection (backup tunnels that bypass only a single link of the label switched path (LSP), node protection (backup tunnels that bypass next-hop nodes along LSPs), and the following Fast Reroute (FRR) features: backup tunnel support, backup bandwidth protection, and Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) hellos.
•MPLS Traffic Engineering—Fast Reroute MIB
Enables Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)-based network management of the Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Fast Reroute (FRR) feature in Cisco IOS software.
•MPLS Traffic Engineering Forwarding Adjacency
Allows a network administrator to handle a traffic engineering (TE) label switched path (LSP) tunnel as a link in an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) network based on the Shortest Path First (SPF) algorithm.
•MPLS Traffic Engineering—LSP Attributes
Describes how to configure label switched path (LSP) attributes for path options associated with Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) traffic engineering (TE) tunnels.
Enables Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent support in Cisco IOS software for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) traffic engineering (TE) management, as implemented in the MPLS TE MIB.
•MPLS Traffic Engineering—Policy Routing onto MPLS TE Tunnels
Enables policy-based routing (PBR) to forward packets into a traffic engineering (TE) tunnel.
•MPLS Traffic Engineering—RSVP Graceful Restart
Allows a neighboring Route Processor (RP) to recover from disruption in control plane service (specifically, the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) component) without losing its Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) forwarding state.
•MPLS Traffic Engineering—RSVP Hello State Timer
Detects when a neighbor is down and quickly triggers a state timeout, which frees resources such as bandwidth that can be reused by other label switched paths (LSPs).
•MPLS Traffic Engineering—Verbatim Path Support
Allows network nodes to support Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) extensions without supporting Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) extensions for traffic engineering (TE), thereby bypassing the topology database verification process.
•MPLS Traffic Engineering (TE)—IP Explicit Address Exclusion
Provides a means to exclude a link or node from the path for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) traffic engineering (TE) label switched paths (LSPs).
•MPLS Traffic Engineering (TE)—Path Protection
Provides an end-to-end failure recovery mechanism (that is, full path protection) for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) traffic engineering (TE) tunnels.
•MPLS VPN Carrier Supporting Carrier Using LDP and IGP
Enables you to set up and create a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Virtual Private Network (VPN) carrier supporting carrier (CSC) network that uses Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) to transport MPLS labels and an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) to transport routes.
•MPLS VPN Carrier Supporting Carrier with BGP
Enables you to create a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Virtual Private Network (VPN) carrier supporting carrier (CSC) network that uses Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to transport routes and MPLS labels.
•MPLS VPN—eBGP Multipath Support for CSC and InterAS MPLS VPNs
Allows you to configure external Border Gateway Protocol (eBGP) multipath with IPv4+ labels.
•MPLS VPN—Explicit Null Label Support with BGP IPv4 Label Session
Provides a method to advertise explicit null in a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) label session for a carrier supporting carrier (CSC) customer edge (CE) router.
•MPLS VPN—Load Balancing Support for Inter-AS and CSC VPNs
Allows Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Virtual Private Network (VPNs) Inter-AS and MPLS VPN carrier supporting carrier (CSC) networks to load share traffic between adjacent label switched routers (LSRs) that are connected by multiple links.
•Multi-VRF Selection Using Policy-Based Routing (PBR)
Allows a specified interface on a provider edge (PE) router to route packets to Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) based on packet length or match criteria defined in an IP access list.
Describes how to connect Cisco Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Token Ring network modules to your network.
•NSF/SSO—AToM ATM Attachment Circuit
Allows Any Transport over Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) (AToM) to use nonstop forwarding (NSF) and stateful switchover (SSO) on ATM attachment circuits.
•NSF/SSO—MPLS TE and RSVP Graceful Restart
Allows a Route Processor (RP) to recover from disruption in control plane service without losing its Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) forwarding state and includes support for nonstop forwarding (NSF) and stateful switchover (SSO).
•NSF/SSO—MPLS Traffic Engineering (TE)—Path Protection
Provides an end-to-end failure recovery mechanism (that is, full path protection) for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) traffic engineering (TE) tunnels and includes support for nonstop forwarding (NSF) and stateful switchover (SSO).
•PPP-Max-Payload and IWF PPPoE Tag Support
Enables the PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) component to process the PPP-Max-Payload and Interworking Functionality (IWF) PPPoE tags in the PPPoE discovery frame.
•PPPoE Agent Remote-ID and DSL Line Characteristics Enhancement
Provides a method by which the digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) sends the DSL remote-ID tag in the discovery phase as an identifier for the authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) access request on an Ethernet interface, thereby simulating ATM-based broadband access, but using cost-effective Ethernet instead.
•PPPoE Circuit-ID Tag Processing
Provides a way to extract a circuit-ID tag from the digital subscriber line (DSL) as an identifier for the authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) access request on an Ethernet interface, thereby simulating ATM-based broadband access, but using cost-effective Ethernet instead.
Enables an L2TP access concentrator (LAC) to relay active discovery and service selection functionality for PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE), over a Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) control channel, to an L2TP network server (LNS) or tunnel switch (multihop node).
•PPPoE Session Limiting on Inner QinQ VLAN
Allows a service provider to limit each customer to one PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) client in use by providing the ability to limit the number of PPPoE over QinQ (IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tunnel) sessions based on the inner VLAN ID configured under a subinterface.
•Pseudowire Emulation Edge-to-Edge MIBs for Ethernet, Frame Relay, and ATM Services
Provides Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) support within an Any Transport over Multiprotocol Label Switching (AToM) infrastructure emulating Ethernet, Frame Relay, and ATM services over packet switched networks (PSNs).
Allows you to classify traffic on the basis of the ATM cell loss priority (CLP) value.
•QoS on Port-Channel Member-Link
Provides support for configuring egress service policies on port-channel member links.
•Quality of Service: Policies Aggregation
Allows you to configure the default traffic classes of different policy maps on the same physical interface as a single traffic class within the modular quality of service (MQC) command-line interface (CLI).
•RADIUS Attribute 66 (Tunnel-Client-Endpoint) Enhancements
Allows the hostname of the network access server (NAS) to be specified—rather than the IP address of the NAS—in RADIUS attribute 66 (Tunnel-Client-Endpoint).
•RSVP Refresh Reduction and Reliable Messaging
Includes refresh reduction, which improves the scalability, latency, and reliability of Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) signaling to enhance network performance and message delivery.
•RSVP—Resource Reservation Protocol
Describes a network-control protocol that enables Internet applications to obtain differing qualities of service (QoS) for their data flows (RFC 2205).
Introduces ATM support for stateful switchover (SSO).
Network Management
New Documents
•End of Life Distributed Director
Describes the removal of support for Distributed Director features and commands in Cisco IOS Release 12.4(24)T and later releases.
•Web Services Management Agent
Defines a mechanism through which a network device can be managed, configuration data information can be retrieved, and new configuration data can be uploaded and manipulated.
Optical Networking
The terms "Unidirectional Path Switched Ring" and "UPSR" may appear in Cisco literature. These terms do not refer to using Cisco ONS 15xxx products in a unidirectional path switched ring configuration. Rather, these terms, and "Path Protected Mesh Network" and "PPMN," refer generally to Cisco's path protection feature, which may be used in any topological network configuration. Cisco does not recommend using its path protection feature in any particular topological network configuration.
Physical Security
None at this time.
Routers
New Documents
•7600-ES+ITU-2TG and 7600-ES+ITU-4TG
Introduces support for the 7600-ES+ITU-2TG and 7600-ES+ITU-4TG. Cisco 7600 Ethernet services line cards.
•Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers
Describes the installation, replacement, or upgrading of field-replaceable units (FRUs), and troubleshooting of the Cisco ASR 1000 series routers.
•Integrated Session Border Controller
Describes the Integrated Session Border Controller functions, features, restrictions, and configuration tasks for the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers.
Revised Documents
•Cisco 800 Broadband Series Routers
Lists documents that provide a variety of information about the Cisco 800 Series routers.
•Cisco 3800 Series Hardware Installation Guide
Describes hardware installation procedures for the Cisco 3800 series integrated services routers and includes the following two new SKUs: C3825-NOVPN and C3845-NOVPN
Describes how to connect Cisco 1- and 2-port Fast Ethernet high-speed WAN interface cards (HWICs) to your network.
Describes how to connect Cisco Gigabit Ethernet high-speed WAN interface cards (HWICs) to your network.
Security
New Documents
Provides support for controlling the initiation of Internet Key Exchange (IKE) negotiation and rekeying.
Revised Documents
Uses a single command-line interface (CLI) to disable common IP services that can be exploited for network attacks and enables IP services and features that can aid in the defense of a network when under attack.
•Explicit Passive Mode CLI Support
Allows you to configure a group member so that it is in passive mode permanently.
Provides support for time-based antireplay on the Cisco vendor specific attribute (VSA) high-performance crypto engine.
•Group Encrypted Transport VPN (GET VPN)
Describes a set of features that are necessary to secure IP multicast group traffic or unicast traffic over a private WAN that originates on or flows through a Cisco IOS device.
Service Exchange
None at this time.
Storage Networking
None at this time.
Switches
New Documents
•Cisco ME 3400E Ethernet Access Switch Command Reference, Cisco IOS Release 12.2(44)EY
Describes the commands that have been specifically created or changed for use with the switch.
•Cisco ME 3400E Ethernet Access Switch Getting Started Guide
Describes how to install and configure the switch.
•Cisco ME 3400E Ethernet Access Switch Hardware Installation Guide
Describes the hardware features of the switch. It describes the physical and performance characteristics of the switch, explains how to install it, and provides troubleshooting information.
•Cisco ME 3400E Ethernet Access Switch Power-Supply Module Quick Start Guide
Describes the high-level steps for installing the AC- and DC-power modules for the Cisco ME 3400E-24TS-M and the Cisco ME 3400EG-12CS-M switches.
•Cisco ME 3400E Ethernet Access Switch Software Configuration Guide, Cisco IOS Release 12.2(44)EY
Describes how to configure the switch by using the command-line interface and how to configure the software features.
•Regulatory Compliance and Safety Information for the Cisco ME 3400E Ethernet Access Switch
Provides regulatory compliance and safety information for the Cisco ME 3400E Ethernet access switches.
•Release Notes for the Cisco ME 3400E Ethernet Access Switch, Cisco IOS Release 12.2(44)EY
Describes the system requirements, limitations, and caveats for the Cisco ME 3400E Ethernet access switches.
Revised Documents
•Cisco ME 3400E, ME 3400, and ME 2400 Ethernet Access Switch System Message Guide
Describes the Cisco ME 3400E, ME 3400, and ME 2400 switch-specific system messages.
TelePresence
None at this time.
Universal Gateways and Access Servers
None at this time.
Video, Cable, and Content Delivery
None at this time.
Voice and Unified Communications
New Documents
•Communications Manager Express 7.1/Survivable Remote Site Telephony 7.1
Describes new features introduced in Cisco Unified Survivable Remote Site Telephony 7.1 (Cisco Unified SRST).
Provides the ability to send a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) registration message from the Cisco Unified Border Element using the credentials command.
•SIP—RSVP Preconditions for Video Gateway
Expands existing support for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) video calls on H.324-SIP video gateways to include H.320-SIP video gateways.
Describe several enhancements for Cisco VGD 1T3, Cisco AS5350XM, and AS5400XM voice gateways.
Revised Documents
•Release Notes for Cisco IP Communicator Release 7.0(x)
Describes new features, documentation updates, and known and resolved caveats for Cisco IP Communicator Release 7.0 (x).
•Release Notes for Cisco Unified Personal Communicator Release 7.0(x)
Describes new features, documentation updates, and known and resolved problems for Cisco Unified Personal Communicator Release 7.0 (x).
•User Guide for Cisco Unified Personal Communicator for Macintosh, Release 7.0
Provides task-based information about how to use Cisco Unified Personal Communicator Release 7.0 on a Macintosh platform.
•User Guide for Cisco Unified Personal Communicator for Windows, Release 7.0
Provides task-based information about how to use Cisco Unified Personal Communicator Release 7.0 on a Windows platform.
Wireless
New Documents
•Cisco MWR 2941-DC Mobile Wireless Edge Router Hardware Installation Guide
Describes how to install the Cisco MWR 2941-DC router hardware.
•Cisco MWR 2941-DC Mobile Wireless Edge Router Software Configuration Guide
Describes how to install and configure the Cisco MWR 2941-DC router software.
•Regulatory Compliance and Safety Information for the Cisco MWR 2941-DC Mobile Wireless Edge Router
Provides regulatory compliance and safety information for the Cisco MWR 2941-DC router.
•Release Notes for Cisco MWR 2941-DC Mobile Wireless Edge Router for Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2
Describes the new features, restrictions, and caveats for the Cisco MWR 2941-DC router.
Revised Documents
•Mobile IP—Mobile Router Multipath Support
Provides support for mobile router multipath registration based on roaming interface priority, application routing based on link or path type, and multiple registrations based on roaming interface priority.
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