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Cisco AS5350
Universal Gateway
The Cisco
®
AS5350 Universal Gateway is the only one-rack-unit (1RU) gateway supporting
2-,4-,or8-portT1/7-portE1configurationsthatprovidesuniversalport data, voice, and fax
services on any portat any time (Figure 1).The Cisco AS5350 UniversalGateway offers high
performance and high reliability in a compact, modular design. This cost-effective platform
is ideally suited for Internet service providers (ISPs) and enterprise companies that require
innovative universal services.
Figure 1
Cisco AS5350 Universal Gateway
Cisco Any Service, Any Port
The economic environment is prompting
service providers to generate revenues
quickly, improve returns from capital
investments, and adapt to changing
demands for various services in the
market place. Cisco Any Service, Any Port
(ASAP)—the architecture for rapid
deployment of concurrent services onCisco
AS5000universalgateways—allowsservice
providers to meet these challenges. Cisco
ASAP enables faster service introduction
using a common platform for quick return
on investment (ROI). Service providers can
generate new revenue streams from
multiple voice and data services such as
long-distance voice over IP (VoIP),
managed IP telephony, VPNs, and dial-up
Internet.
Your Complete Point-of-
Presence Solution
The Cisco AS5350 Universal Gateway
eliminates the need for switches and routers
to create a point of presence (POP) or
“POP-in-a-box” solution. The Cisco
AS5350 has three primary universal
gateway configurations: two Channelized
T1(CT1)/Channelized E1(CE1)s, four
CT1/CE1s, and eight CT1/seven CE1s. It
also includes integrated signaling link
termination (SLT) functions for direct
connection to a Common Channel
Signaling System 7 (SS7/C7) signaling
gateway.
The Cisco AS5350 comes with two 10/100
autosensing Ethernet ports, which are ideal
for redundancy and firewall applications.
Additionally, two high-speed serial ports
are provided to support Frame Relay,
Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP), and
High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC)
backhaul. All backhaul interfaces support
Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP), and
allcardsandthefantrayare hot-swappable