AS5850 AS5850 Series

The Cisco AS5850 Universal Gateway is a high-density universal gateway with carrier-class attributes, offering high availability and high capacity. It is specifically designed to meet the demands of medium to large service providers and enterprises, supporting at least 2688 ports, using Channelized T3 (CT3), T1, E1, or STM-1 trunk interfaces of data, voice, and fax services. It offers high-availability features such as hot-swap on all cards, load-sharing and redundant hot-swappable power supplies, redundant fans for cooling, redundant enhanced-route-switch-controller (ERSC) cards, and Call Admission Control (CAC)-all part of the carrier-class attributes required to provide a highly available system. Higher-capacity configurations, depending on dial, voice, and fax application types, are also supported.