Cisco 7600 Series Internet Router: A Multi-Use Platform for Service Provider Points of Presence

The increase in demand for e-business applications requires service providers (SPs) to offer both increased bandwidth and enhanced network services. Enterprises are increasingly outsourcing the hosting of these applications, requiring SPs to offer Web, application, and remote storage hosting with guaranteed service-level agreements. Simultaneously, broadband residential services are being widely deployed using digital subscriber line (xDSL) and cable technology; traffic that was once constrained to high-speed LAN network is now routinely transported acrossmetropolitan and wide-area networks (MANs/WANs).Not only must this increasing traffic be aggregated and transported over the MAN and WAN, but also it must meet the quality-of-service (QoS) and security requirements that business-critical applications demand without impacting performance. This white paper describes how the Cisco 7600 Series Internet Router meets these needs by providing the widest range of high-speed optical interfaces with flexible and cost-effective line-rate services.