Cisco ASR 5500 - Modular expansion base - front to back airflow - rack-mountable
- Enhanced flexibility
- Ultimate intelligence
- High performance and scale
- Resiliency and redundancy to ensure a high-quality experience
As a mobile operator, the mobile broadband network that you built has forever changed the way that your customers work, live, play, and learn, and has become part of the very fabric of their everyday lives. However, data traffic continues to grow exponentially, and regular network modifications are required to keep customers happy. At the same time, revenues are increasingly under pressure. A flexible network is one that can adapt to frequently changing business models, with the ability to make in-network design modifications without huge capital expenditures. With all these factors, mobile operators need a mobile packet core solution that they can count on - one that provides efficient evolution to 4G technology and small cells.
Operators must plan for the normal of the mobile Internet - elastic, flexible, virtual. This means being able to harness the right resources (intelligent performance) when you need them - instantaneously. This ultimate normal starts with the intelligent performance of the Cisco ASR 5500 multimedia core platform. Cisco ASR 5500 sets a different standard for intelligent performance that redefines the economics of the packet core. It is the first mobile platform designed for terabit performance that scales to tens of millions of sessions, and supports the transaction rates required to address the signaling surge.
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Flexibility
A flexible network is one that can adapt to frequently changing business models, with the ability to make in-network design modifications without huge capital expenditures. With its powerful elastic architecture, the Cisco ASR 5500 platform is access-independent and can be transparently deployed in various access networks. As the Cisco ASR 5500 carries forward the same benefits of flexibility in terms of the various mobile functions that the product can satisfy. A true advanced core puts the power of network architecture and design in the hands of operators, instead of forcing operators to work within the bounds of competitive platform limitations. The Cisco ASR 5500 has the flexibility to meet the individual deployment needs of operators, and allows functions to be shifted to maintain the correct balance as the needs of the network changes.
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Intelligence
Cisco ASR 5500 contains real-time integrated, session-state intelligence, including deep packet inspection (DPI) from Layer 1 to Layer 7 for all traffic. Taking full advantage of this intelligence allows operators to dramatically increase service velocity (by making the intelligence flexibly and virtually available to services), and improve the customer experience, while optimizing the cost of the network. This sets the stage for continued profitability well into the future. The platform interacts with and recognizes all the major elements that make up the multimedia connection devices, subscribers, networks, applications, transport mechanisms, location, session-state, and policies, and assists in service-creation velocity.
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Performance and scale
The evolution to flat IP network architectures and the large growth in mobile Internet traffic has a tremendous impact on signaling, throughput, latency, and mobility. Traditional platforms maximize either signaling or bearer performance at the cost of the other type of performance. The Cisco ASR 5500 is purpose-built to address the needs of the mobile multimedia market and provide high performance to address growing network signaling and user plane demands. It reduces the cost per byte for bearer traffic while reducing the cost per attached user for signaling traffic. Going forward, mobile networks will require a solution that scales across all performance parameters - throughput, transactions, bearers, and sessions.
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Resiliency and redundancy
The Cisco ASR 5500 architecture employs full hardware and software redundancy, as well as high-availability software techniques. The platform can anticipate faults and provide quick, non-session-disrupting recovery to maximize network uptime, maintain user sessions, retain billing information, and help ensure a high-quality experience.
