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Chapter 7
Broadband and Dial Access Products
Cisco AS5850 Universal Gateway
The Cisco AS5850 Universal Gateway is the industries
highest density universal gateway, offering unparalleled
capacity and high availability. It is specifically designed
to meet the demands of large, innovative service
providers, supporting up to 2688 calls (4 x CT3s), 96
T1s or 86 E1s of data, voice, fax and mobile wireless
calls 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
route processing cards and call admission control to
ensure 99.999-percent availability. As a highly flexible
voice gateway, the Cisco AS5850 supports any CODEC
at 100-percent capacity simplifying network
engineering. An open programmable architecture streamlines rapid voice service
creation with H.323, SIP or MGCP protocols.
The Cisco AS5850 supports a wide range of IP-based value-added services such as
high-volume Internet access, corporate virtual private networks (VPNs), mobile
wireless solutions, long distance for Internet service providers (ISPs), international
wholesale long distance, distributed prepaid calling, Signaling System 7 (SS7)
interconnect, and enhanced voice services. Using the rich set of Cisco IOS Software
features and Signaling System 7 (SS7) interconnection, Service Providers can quickly
provision their network for new services to meet the rapidly changing demands of the
communications provider marketplace.
When to Sell
Sell This Product
When a Customer Needs These Features
Cisco AS5850
• Up to 2688 calls (4 x CT3s), 96 T1s or 86 E1s of data, voice, fax and mobile wireless calls on any port at
• Service provider or IP-focused installations
• Highly available single system with multiple redundancy
• Wholesale dial/voice, retail dial/voice, TDM grooming or wireless applications
Key Features
• ASAP services-enables the Cisco AS5850 to operate simultaneously as a network
access server and voice gateway, delivering universal services on any port at any time
• High availability architecture, with redundancy and hot swap capability
• Density remains the same regardless of modem protocol, voice codec type, ECAN
or VAD settings
• Up to 3072 DS0s can be groomed through the TDM Switching feature
• Up to 4 Channelized T3 or 86 Channelized E1/PRI interfaces
• Port management features for large-scale wholesale dial applications
• ETSI/NEBS Level 3 compliant
• Distributed, multiprocessor design for maximum performance and growth
• SS7/C7 support through the Cisco SC2200 signaling controller
• V.110 protocol support for wireless applications
any time (universal access)
Cisco AS5850 Universal Gateway
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