Cisco WS-X6182-2PA= Network Switch Component Networking

The FlexWAN module for the Cisco® 7600 Series Router and Cisco Catalyst® 6500 Series Switch enables high-performance, intelligent LAN, WAN, and metropolitan-area network (MAN) service scalability for both enterprises and service providers. The FlexWAN module supports a variety of clear-channel and Channelized WAN interfaces, including T1/E1, T3/E3, High-Speed Serial Interface (HSSI), T3/E3 ATM, OC-3 ATM, and OC-3 packet over SONET (POS) with the ability to directly interface with high-speed SONET equipment for metropolitan-area networking.

The FlexWAN module accepts up to two WAN port adapters commonly used with the Cisco 7200 and 7500 series routers, providing an easy migration path for existing WAN and MAN networks. The innovative architecture is designed to deliver flexible media and enable distributed intelligent network services for next-generation applications.

The ability to consolidate LAN, WAN, and MAN services onto the same platform lowers the total cost of ownership of the network through simplified design and ease of network management, maintenance, and training.

Benefits:
• Provides granular, end-to-end security access control
• Enables end-to-end LAN, WAN, and MAN QoS
• Provides proactive traffic control to avoid network congestion
• Provides distributed QoS mechanisms to prioritize and deliver mission-critical traffic, while minimizing delay
• Enables intelligent traffic control to condition or limit bandwidth to specific users or applications for traffic rate limiting
• Provides bandwidth efficiency for transport of voice traffic over low speed links by compressing the IP/UDP/RTP headers
• Minimizes end-to-end latency and jitter by fragmenting large data packets