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Cisco MGX 8800/8900 Series Hardware Installation Guide
Releases 2 - 5.2, Part Number OL-4545-01, Rev. H0, May 2006
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Product Overviews
Figure 1-1 and Figure 1-2 show the Cisco MGX family switches and the Cisco MGX media gateway,
respectively:
Cisco MGX 8850 or Cisco MGX 8850/B switch
Cisco MGX 8950 switch
Cisco MGX 8830 switch, Cisco MGX 8830/B switch
Figure1-1 Cisco MGX Switch Family
The Cisco MGX 8850 Multiservice Switch is designed for service providers deploying narrowband
and/or broadband services. The MGX 8850/B model supports 1 :N redundancy.
Both the MGX 8850 and MGX 8850/B support either the PXM45 or PXM1 E controller cards. Further,
the switches can scale from DS0 to OC-48c/STM-16 and s upport any combination of the following
services:
Frame relay
ATM
Voice over ATM
Voice over IP
MGX 8950
MGX 8850 or
MGX 8830 or MGX 8830
(rack installation)
MGX 8850/B
MGX 8830/B