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Key Benefits and Features
The key benefits and features of the Cisco 1760 Modular Access Router are listed in Table 1.
Table 1 Key Benefits and Features of Cisco 1760 Modular Access Router
Key Benefits Key Features
Investment protection • Offers field-upgradable WICs and VICs
1
• Provides Cisco IOS
®
Software upgradable feature sets
1. WAN interface cards and voice interface cards
Flexibility • Provides full Cisco IOS Software support, including multiprotocol routing
(IP, IPX
2
, Apple Talk, IBM/SNA
3
) and bridging
• Provides customization through wide range of WICs and VICs
• Offers modular data and voice slots
2. Internetwork Packet Exchange
3. Systems Network Architecture
Lower cost of ownership • Combines optional functions, including a voice gateway, dynamic
firewall, VPN tunnel server, DSU/CSU
4
(56 or 64 kbps or T1/FT1) and
ISDN NT1
5
device
• Supports remote management applications such as CiscoView (part of
CiscoWorks2000)
4. Data/channel service unit
5. Network Termination 1
Security • Offers Cisco IOS Firewall
• Provides VPN IPSec (DES
6
and 3DES
7
)
• Enables wire-speed (T1/E1) encryption using optional VPN module
6. Digital Encryption Standard
7. Triple DES
Voice traffic migration to data
networks
• Supports IP telephony
• Interoperates with next-generation voice-enabled applications such as
integrated messaging and Web-based call centers
• Works with the existing telephone infrastructure: phones, fax machines,
KTS
8
units, and PBX
9
(including digital PBXs)
8. Key telephone system
9. Private branch exchange
Business-class broadband access for
value-added services such as voice
over broadband
• Supports ADSL
10
and symmetric single pair high bit rate digital
subscriber line (G.shdsl) support
• Provides efficient utilization of bandwidth
• Offers prioritization of voice traffic
10. Asymmetric DSL
Ideal for small/medium-sized
businesses and small enterprise
branch offices to deploy
transformational technologies such as
converged data and voice applications
• Provides greater analog voice port density (four slots) than Cisco 1751
(three slots), enabling more connections to analog end stations, PBXs,
key switches, and basic telephone service (POTs) lines
• Supports maximum 30 digital DSD channels through T1/E1 VWICs
• 19-inch rack-mount form factor
