May 1, 2003 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cisco Systems Inc. (cisco.com) yesterday introduced the Cisco NPE-G100 network processing engine for the Cisco 7300 series routers.
The new product was revealed at the Networld+Interop 2003 trade show in Las Vegas.
The Cisco 7304 NPE-G100 will be available in May for $22,000. It can be used by enterprises as an Internet gateway or by service providers as a high-end customer-premise-equipment (CPE) for managed service offerings.
UTA, an Austrian telecommunications and e-business service provider, is among those companies who have already expressed interest. ?UTA is evaluating the Cisco 7300 Series to enhance our existing MPLS-based service offering,” said Ilias Liakopoulos, head of UTA’s IP and data network department. “The Cisco 7300 will provide us with more flexibility for handling critical applications in a multi-gigabit network environment.”
The Cisco 7304 NPE-G100 processor enables support for cutting-edge features to power network applications and services such as Internet Protocol Version 6. IPv6 enables customers to prepare their networks for next-generations data, voice and video applications.
?The Cisco 7300 is ideal for customers looking to enhance their productivity by deploying new data, voice and video applications that are made possible by the high performance and breadth of features built into the 7300 Series routers,? said Lele Nardin, vice president and general manger of the broadband edge and midrange routing business unit at Cisco. ?The Cisco 7300 is now available with two distinct processors to serve the widest range of applications enabling enterprise and service provider customers to power dedicated, high-performance services and to support the widest range of network edge applications in the industry.?
