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platform. By embedding voice services inside the router, Cisco provides customers with maximum

deployment flexibility, plus higher densities for stations, trunks, and conferencing.

The Cisco 3800 Series routers offer the award-winning Cisco IP Telephony solution for wired and

cordless WLAN phones, with Cisco CallManager Express (CME), as an optional feature set

embedded within Cisco IOS

Software. This solution is ideal for customers who want to decrease

costs and complexity by converging voice and data networks. By adding a Cisco Unity™ Express

advanced integration module (AIM) or network module to this solution, small offices and branch

offices can take advantage of a complete, all-in-one data, voice-processing, voice-mail, and auto-

attendant system. For larger, centralized IP Communications deployments, customers can deploy

Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) in their Cisco 3800 Series routers with a central Cisco

CallManager for highly scalable, highly available enterprise IP Communications. SRST is an

important component of the Cisco end-to-end IP telephony offering, providing feature-rich call-

processing redundancy, while taking advantage of the existing infrastructure at the branch office.

Cisco 3800 Series routers also feature the widest range of voice-gateway interfaces, scaling to

meet the needs of the smallest to largest branch requirements for voice termination densities using

a combination of network modules, extension voice modules (EVMs), voice interface cards (VICs),

voice/WAN interface cards (VWICs), and onboard packet voice DSP modules (PVDMs).

Customers have unprecedented scalability for supporting up to 24 T1/E1 trunks and 88 foreign-

exchange-station (FXS) ports for analog phones, fax machines, key systems, and conference

stations.

Wireless Services

The Cisco 3800 Series can provide a complete wireless solution for branch offices, small/medium

sized businesses, and Wi-Fi hotspots. Wireless services enable greater mobility for employees,

partners, and customers, resulting in increased productivity. The Cisco 3800 Series supports an

integrated access point for wireless LAN connectivity, Wi-Fi Hotspot services for public access,

wireless infrastructure services for cordless WLAN telephony and for larger sites, and land mobile

radio over IP for radio users.

Integrated Services

Figure 2 also highlights the fact that with the unique integrated services architecture of the Cisco

3800 Series, customers can securely deploy IP Communications with traditional IP routing and

still leave the network-module slots available for additional advanced services. With the optional

integration of a wide array of services modules, the Cisco 3800 offers the ability to easily integrate

the functions of standalone network appliances and components into the Cisco 3800 Series

chassis itself. Many of these network modules, such as the Cisco Network Analysis, Cisco

Intrusion Detection System, and Cisco Content Engine network modules, have embedded

processors and hard drives that allow them to run largely independently of the router, while

allowing their management from a single management interface. This flexibility greatly expands the

potential applications of the Cisco 3800 Series beyond traditional routing while still maintain the

benefits of integration: ease of management, lower solution costs, and increased speed of

deployment.