Cisco AS5850 Universal Gateway

Chapter 7 Broadband and Dial Access Products

The Cisco AS5850 Universal Gateway is the industries highest density universal gateway, offering unparalleled capacity and high availability. It is specifically designed to meet the demands of large, innovative service providers, supporting up to 2688 calls (4 x CT3s), 96 T1s or 86 E1s of data, voice, fax and mobile wireless calls on any port at any time. It offers high availability features such as hot-swap on all cards, load-sharing and redundant hot-swappable power supplies, redundant route processing cards and call admission control to ensure 99.999-percent availability. As a highly flexible voice gateway, the Cisco AS5850 supports any CODEC at 100-percent capacity simplifying network

engineering. An open programmable architecture streamlines rapid voice service creation with H.323, SIP or MGCP protocols.

The Cisco AS5850 supports a wide range of IP-based value-added services such as high-volume Internet access, corporate virtual private networks (VPNs), mobile wireless solutions, long distance for Internet service providers (ISPs), international wholesale long distance, distributed prepaid calling, Signaling System 7 (SS7) interconnect, and enhanced voice services. 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.

When to Sell

Sell This Product	When a Customer Needs These Features
Cisco AS5850	• Up to 2688 calls (4 x CT3s), 96 T1s or 86 E1s of data, voice, fax and mobile wireless calls on any port at
	any time (universal access)
	• Service provider or IP-focused installations
	• Highly available single system with multiple redundancy
	• Wholesale dial/voice, retail dial/voice, TDM grooming or wireless applications

Key Features

•ASAP services-enables the Cisco AS5850 to operate simultaneously as a network access server and voice gateway, delivering universal services on any port at any time

•High availability architecture, with redundancy and hot swap capability

•Density remains the same regardless of modem protocol, voice codec type, ECAN or VAD settings

•Up to 3072 DS0s can be groomed through the TDM Switching feature

•Up to 4 Channelized T3 or 86 Channelized E1/PRI interfaces

•Port management features for large-scale wholesale dial applications

•ETSI/NEBS Level 3 compliant

•Distributed, multiprocessor design for maximum performance and growth

•SS7/C7 support through the Cisco SC2200 signaling controller

•V.110 protocol support for wireless applications