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Cisco 6400 Carrier-class Broadband Aggregator

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Cisco 6400 Carrier-Class Broadband Aggregator

THE CISCO 6400 CARRIER-CLASS BROADBAND AGGREGATOR IS A HIGH-PERFORMANCE, SCALABLE SERVICE

GATEWAY THAT ENABLES THE SELECTION AND DELIVERY OF BROADBAND NETWORK SERVICES

, VIRTUAL

PRIVATE NETWORKS

(VPNS), AND VOICE- AND ENTERTAINMENT-DRIVEN TRAFFIC OVER THE FULL SUITE OF

ACCESS MEDIA

.THE CISCO 6400 COMBINES THE RICHNESS OF CISCO IOS

SOFTWARE,ASYNCHRONOUS

TRANSFER MODE (ATM) SWITCHING AND ROUTING CAPABILITIES, AND VALUE-ADDED SERVICE SELECTION IN

A MODULAR

, SCALABLE, REDUNDANT,NETWORK EQUIPMENT BUILDING STANDARD (NEBS) CERTIFIED AND

ETSI FORM FACTOR.

Applications

The digital subscriber line (DSL) market is quickly maturing from

a technology and pilot service phase to large-scale deployments.

As part of this evolution, service providers need to offer scalable

services to both business and residential customers, supporting

security, service selection, quality of service (QoS), and virtual

private networks (VPNs). Cisco Systems is the ﬁrst to

acknowledge the complexity in meeting this need and offers the

ﬁrst end-to-end service-oriented DSL architecture from the

customer premises equipment (CPE) to core ATM switching. The

Cisco 6400 is an integral component of this architecture, enabling

service providers to make the most of their DSL and dial service

offerings.

Figure 1 Cisco 6400

The Cisco 6400 may reside within the operating company’s

infrastructure (directly or via co-location) to aggregate access

media (DSL, cable, wireless, and dial), serving as the intelligent

equal access point that allows a multitude of operating companies

and service providers access to the end users. In addition, the

Cisco 6400 may reside at the network edge between the operating

companies and ISP or corporation, providing the aggregation of

sessions and tunnels as well as service and network selection

capabilities required in the delivery of advanced broadband

services.

When deployed by a wholesale service provider, the Cisco

6400 allows users to dynamically select on-demand services. It

then switches user trafﬁc to the selected services, applying

full-edge routing and QoS policies. As a full-IP and ATM edge

device, it forwards the trafﬁc simultaneously to multiple IP

domains, after preparing it for delivery to core networks, such as

those powered by the Cisco 12000 Gigabit Switch Router (GSR)

and Cisco BPX

8600 product families.

When deployed by an ISP, the Cisco 6400 applies familiar

dial-aggregation services to subscriber connections. It terminates

and aggregates numerous end-user sessions and delivers the

trafﬁc to the ISP’s backbone and host value-added services, such

as e-mail, Web hosting, Web caching, Internet gaming, multipoint

videoconferencing, streaming video and entertainment-driven

trafﬁc.

The Cisco 6400 may also be deployed by enterprises offering

employees fast, reliable, authenticated access for telecommuting

to both corporate networks and the Internet via secure VPNs.

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In order to meet the demands of these diverse roles, the Cisco6400 uses its fully-featured Layer 2 and Layer 3 Cisco IOS base.The Cisco 6400 can opera

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deployment of on-demand services. Each individual familymember may have a different set of privileges and be billedaccordingly.• Full Cisco IOSCisco

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Node Route Processor• 155-Mbps throughput routing engine derived from Cisco 7200technology (NPE 200)• Pairs of NRPs support fault tolerant enhanced hi

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