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Cisco AS5800 Operations, Administration, Maintenance, and Provisioning Guide
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Introduction
The Cisco AS5800 universal access server is the latest entry into Cisco’s award-winning AS5x00 series
of universal access servers, and provides the highest concentration of modem and integrated services
digital network (ISDN) terminations available in a single remote access concentrator product. The Cisco
AS5800 is specifically designed to meet the demands of large service providers such as post, telephone,
and telegraphs (PTTs), regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs), interexchange carriers (IXCs), and
large Internet service providers (ISPs). The Cisco AS5800 complies with Network Equipment-Building
System (NEBS) Level 3 requirements as defined by Telcordia Technologies SR-3580, and European
requirements are defined by the European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI). Cisco offers
a full spectrum of lifecycle-focused support solutions that are complementary to the Cisco AS5800.
Further, the Cisco AS5800 voice gateway enables highly scalable deployment of toll-quality voice and
fax service over packet networks.
This introductory chapter provides a brief profile and review of the Cisco AS5800 hardware components
and functionality, signal and data throughput logic, access server management flow, and Cisco IOS
software, as well as an information map to this guide.
Cisco AS5800 Functional Profile
The Cisco AS5800 is a high-density, ISDN and modem WAN aggregation system that provides both
digital and analog call termination. It is intended to be used in service-provider dial point-of-presence
(PoP) or centralized-enterprise dial environments. The dial-shelf feature cards and the host router shelf
communicate over a nonblocking interconnect that supports 100-Mbps full-duplex service.
The Cisco AS5800 supports high density dial aggregation and integrates with Cisco AS5200 and
Cisco AS5300 access servers for scaling your service provider network. The Cisco AS5800 also
supports high availability of service through online insertion and removal (OIR) capabilities, and
redundant power supplies that are hot swappable. All active components within the dial-shelf chassis
support OIR, which allows components to be removed or replaced while the system is powered on.
Feature cards can be busied-out through the software to avoid loss of calls.
The Cisco AS5800 includes a Cisco 5814 dial shelf and a Cisco 7206 router shelf. If you are installing
multiple access servers, a system controller is available, which provides a “single system” view of
multiple POPs.
The system controller for the Cisco AS5800 includes the Cisco 3640 router running Cisco IOS software.
The system controller can be installed at a remote facility so that you can access multiple systems
through a console port or Web interface. It is also possible to download software configurations to any
Cisco AS5800 using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) or a Telnet connection using the
TFTP protocols. The system controller also provides performance monitoring and accounting data
collection and logging.