Simplify Operations and Increase Subscriber Revenue

Worldwide broadband DSL access continues its fast-paced growth as consumers and businesses alike adopt this cost-effective, high-speed Internet connectivity. While you continue to scale your offerings, you must find ways to simplify operations and increase individual subscriber revenue. Broadband aggregation enables you to offer the wide variety of revenue-generating services that you must deliver.

Highlights of the Cisco Broadband Aggregation portfolio include:

• High-density Capacity: Interfaces, system capacity without a forklift upgrade
• Simplified Operations: Automatic Virtual Circuit (VC) creation and provisioning, reduced configuration complexity, comprehensive management and provisioning
• High Availability: Proven carrier-grade systems with the industry’s leading session setup rate
• Cisco IOS IP/MPLS Services: The most comprehensive feature set with hardware-accelerated feature support, e.g. Stateful firewall, content filtering, security, and the broadest set of Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN protocols
• System Scalability: Industry-leading scale and flexible form factors from 1 rack unit (RU) with 16,000 subscribers to the highest density systems with more than 60,000 subscriber sessions per system

Cisco delivers broadband aggregation capabilities on a comprehensive set of routers that are sized to meet a variety of network requirements. With the broadest feature set to support a wide array of broadband service architectures, only Cisco delivers leading features and price per session solutions. It is this portfolio that enables service providers to cost-effectively deploy broadband services.

All Cisco broadband aggregation products power Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol access concentrator (LAC), PPP termination and aggregation (PTA), L2TP Network Server (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 Routers
• Cisco 7600 Series Routers
• Cisco 7301 Router
• Cisco 7200 Series Routers