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Chapter 7 Broadband and Dial Access
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Cisco AS5850 Universal Gateway
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See the Cisco AS5400 Universal Gateways Web site: http://www.cisco.com/go/as5400
Cisco AS5850 Universal Gateway
The Cisco AS5850 Universal Gateway is a high-density universal
gateway, with carrier-class attributes, offering highest capacity and
high availability in its class. It offers high-availability features such as
hot-swap on all cards, load-sharing and redundant hot-swappable
power supplies, redundant blower for cooling, enhanced redundant
route switch controller (eRSC) cards, and Call Admission Control
(CAC), all part of the carrier class attributes required to provide a
highly available system. Higher capacity configurations, depending
on dial, voice, and fax application types are also supported.
The Cisco AS5850 supports a wide range of IP-based value-added services such as
high-volume Internet access, corporate virtual private networks (VPNs), long distance for
Internet service providers (ISPs), international wholesale long distance, distributed prepaid
calling, Signaling System 7 (SS7) interconnect, and managed voice services such as hosted
IP telephony, managed IP-PBX, multiservice VPNs, and IP contact centers.
Using the rich set of Cisco IOS Software features and Signaling System 7 (SS7)
interconnection, service providers can quickly provision their network for new services to
meet the rapidly changing demands of the communications provider marketplace.
As a highly flexible voice gateway, the Cisco AS5850 supports any coder-decoder
(CODEC) at 100-percent capacity simplifying network engineering. An open
programmable architecture streamlines rapid voice service creation with H.323, Session
Initiation Protocol (SIP) or Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP).
When to Sell
Key Features
• Hot-swappable redundant power supplies and power feeds
• Redundant DSPs and RSC
• Router Processor Redundancy+ for high availability
• Thermal/Power management and redundant fans
• DSP Resource Recovery Feature
• Supports H.323v2, H.323v3, H.323v4, SIP and MGCP 1.0
• Application-specific support including AOL and Prodigy traffic
• WAN optimization including routing filters, snapshot routine, dial-on-demand routing
ASAP
• ETSI/NEBS Level 3 compliant
• Cisco SS7 signaling gateway interoperability
• Stratum-3 clock support
• 802.1Q/1p VLAN/ISL support
Sell This Product When a Customer Needs These Features
Cisco AS5850
• Supporting at least 2,688 sessions of data, voice, and fax services on any port at any time using T1, E1,
channelized DS3 and STM-1 trunk interfaces. Larger configurations are supported for dial, MGCP voice, TDM
switching, and simple H.323 or SIP applications.
• Service provider or IP-focused installations
• Highly available single system with multiple redundancy
• Wholesale dial/voice, retail dial/voice, TDM grooming or wireless applications