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Cisco Revamps 7200 Router with Three New Products

Network Equipment maker Cisco Systems has launched three new products for its 7200 series routers -- 7200 Network Processing Engine (NPE-G2), 7200 VPN Services Adapter (VSA), and 7200 Port Adapter Jacket Card. The company said the new products will set a new benchmark for highly secure, services aggregation routing at optical carrier-3 (OC-3) and gigabit Ethernet (GE) speeds.

Cisco said Routing engine Cisco 7200 NPE-G2 has the highest performance and scalability within the family of network processing engines. Additional features include threat defense, highly secure virtual private network (VPN) connectivity, network admission control and voice/IP-to-IP gateway functions.

Cisco 7200 VSA is a VPN hardware acceleration module that can provide up to triple performance improvement when combined with the Cisco 7200 NPE-G2 card. This increased performance supports large-scale IPsec aggregation architectures and more secure Cisco IOS Software connectivity.

To meet the increasing needs of flexibility and capacity, the Cisco 7200 Port Adapter Jacket Card addresses the demand for additional slot density. The I/O slot can now hold a single port adapter for additional capacity on systems with the Cisco 7200 NPE-G1 and later Network Processing Engine. This provides a cost-effective way to increase the slot density in parallel with the increased switching capacity of the newest engine-the Cisco 7200 NPE-G2.

Cisco claims the new architectures will help customers decrease deployment times and design overhead costs while integrating services such as security, voice and video into WAN and MAN infrastructures.


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