Cisco Systems is doubling the subscriber density of the Cisco 10000 Series Router to support more than 60,000 simultaneous active sessions. The Cisco 10000 Series Router is used by carriers to deliver integrated private line and broadband aggregation capabilities for business and residential customers. The higher subscriber density is made possible by a new Performance Routing Engine 2 (PRE-2) network processor (list price of $36,950) capable of handling 60,000 simultaneous sessions with security and traffic policing features. The set-up rate has been boosted to 400 sessions per second.
Cisco is also adding a new Multiprocessor WAN Applications Module (list price of $85,000) for its Cisco 7600 Series Router. The new module powers up to 32,000 active sessions and delivers 3 Gbps in throughput. The Cisco 7600 could be used for high-performance entertainment, communications and broadband applications over Ethernet-based access technologies such as WiFi and metro Ethernet.
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