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Primary Features and Benefits to Service Providers
Cost Effectiveness
The Cisco IAD 880 Series offers the entire gamut of industry-leading features at a very cost-effective price for
service providers. With flexible support for a variety of WAN interfaces and line-side voice interfaces, wireless
services, as well as integrated security services, the Cisco IAD 880 Series is customized to the unique requirements
for the small and medium-sized business. Priced with the small and medium-sized business customer in mind, the
feature-rich Cisco IAD 880 Series offers superior value to a service provider interested in taking advantage of the
growing managed small and medium-sized business services market.
Transparent Service Migration
The Cisco IAD 880 Series can help service providers transparently migrate end customers from TDM-based voice
service to call agent-based packet voice services without the need for a complete equipment upgrade at the end-
customer site. The provider can choose SIP, MGCP or H.323 for VoIP protocols, based on the services that need to
be delivered.
Flexibility
The Cisco IAD 880 Series offers both TDM and VoIP with rich VoIP signaling protocol support. Combined with the
option for call agent- and BRI-based network designs, the Cisco IAD 880 Series offers powerful flexibility in the
design of next-generation multiservice networks.
Functional Intelligence
When used with the popular Cisco Configuration Express tool, the autoinstallation technology offers true ready-to-
use installation. In addition, the Cisco IAD 880 Series is based on Cisco IOS Software and provides the same IP
features that power more than 80 percent of the Internet infrastructure. Cisco IOS Software delivers rich data
services, allowing service providers to gain additional data revenue, in addition to proven industry-tested voice
features.
Operational Efficiencies
The new Cisco IAD 880 Series can increase operational efficiencies by reducing or eliminating the necessity for
complete hardware upgrades, warehousing, complete equipment upgrades, and highly skilled technician
involvement. Service providers that deploy these devices with other Cisco equipment and Cisco IOS Software can
cost-effectively extend training, administration, and maintenance activities across the entire network.
End-to-End Solution
Because the Cisco IAD 880 Series is compatible with a wide range of industry-leading DSL access multiplexers
(DSLAMs) and voice gateways and offers world-class data features of Cisco IOS Software, service providers can
deploy a highly efficient and scalable end-to-end multiservice network. The Cisco IAD 880 Series is an integral part
of Cisco packet voice solutions.
Primary Benefits to End Users
Robust Voice Quality
The Cisco experience in providing toll-quality packet-voice service helps ensure that the Cisco IAD 880 Series
provides the clear, robust voice quality that users have come to expect from telephony services.
Reliability
Cisco products are renowned for their exceptional reliability earned through years of proven industry service. The
Cisco IAD 880 Series extends the same reliability standards to managed service environments to provide end users
with high levels of dependability.