The Cisco AS5850 Universal Gateway is a high-density universal gateway, with carrier-class attributes, offering the highest capacity and high availability in its
class. This gateway is designed to meet the demands of large, innovative service providers, supporting up to 5 Channelized T3s (CT3s), 96 T1s, 86 E1s, or 2 STM-1 (108 E1s) of data, voice, and fax services, 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 fans and fan banks, redundant route switch controller (RSC) cards, and Call Admission Control (CAC), all part of the carrier-class attributes required to provide a highly available system.
The Cisco AS5850 Universal Gateway supports a wide range of IP-based value-added services such as high-volume Internet access; corporate VPNs; long distance for Internet service providers (ISPs); international wholesale long distance; distributed prepaid calling; Signaling System 7 (SS7) interconnect; managed voice services such as hosted IP telephony; managed IP private branch exchange (PBX); multiservice VPNs; and IP contact centers.
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