Cisco today announced five products designed to enable users to migrate networks to a single integrated data, voice and video network.
Cisco's new products are designed to help users benefit from the reduced costs, improved network efficiency and multimedia business applications converged networks promise, Cisco says. The products include:
- A digital T-1/E-1 High-Capacity Voice Port Adapter for the Cisco 7200 and 7500 Series Routers.
- A digital T-1/E-1 Packet Voice Trunk Network Modules for the Cisco 2600 and 3600 Multiservice Platforms.
- The Cisco 3660 Multiservice Platform.
- T-1/E-1 Multiflex Voice/WAN Interface Card (Multiflex VWIC) for the Cisco 2600 and 3600 Multiservice Platforms.
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- The Cisco Multimedia Conference Manager (MCM) H.323 Gatekeeper on the Cisco 2600 and Cisco 7200 Series.
Cisco's digital T-1/E-1 voice port adapter and network module products allow users to add higher-density voice to new and existing equipment. These products provide a range of density options: from 2 to 48 simultaneous voice calls on the 2600 Series; 2 to 288 simultaneous voice calls on the 3600 Series; and 48 to 720 simultaneous voice calls on the Cisco 7200/7500 Series.
The digital T-1/E-1 enhancements and the T-1/E-1 Multiflex card also support mixed environments of TDM voice, Voice over IP (VoIP) and Voice over frame relay, Cisco says.
The 3660 is an eight-slot chassis with two fixed 10/100M bit/sec Ethernet ports. Six of the slots can be used to house network modules like the new digital T-1/E-1 boards. The other two can support what Cisco calls Advanced Integration Modules for hardware acceleration and additional processing power.
The MCM H.323 Gatekeeper is implemented as a feature set in Cisco IOS software, and provides management and quality of service for voice and video. The Gatekeeper ensures that voice and videoconferencing connections receive priority over data traffic. The Gatekeeper also provides security for conferencing and VoIP traffic, Cisco says.
The umbrella H.323 standard defines everything from specifying call signaling procedures to describing the services available in desktops, servers and gateways in an IP voice infrastructure.
The new products will ship in August. The digital T-1/E-1 Voice Interfaces for the 7200/3600/2600 series range from $7,400 to $23,000. Entry-level pricing for the new 3660 Multiservice Platform is $10,700.
Pricing for the T-1/E-1 Multiflex Voice/WAN Interface Cards for the Cisco 2600/3600 series starts at $1,300.
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