3Com 3C8S400 User Guide - Page 30

When to Sell Chapter 1 Sell This Product Cisco 7301 Cisco 7304 When a Customer Needs These Features • Compact, power efficient 1-RU form factor • Three times the performance increase over the Cisco 7401 • Single 7000 Series Port Adapter Slot • Highly modular price and performance optimized platform, rich in IP services • High performance connectivity-DS-1 through OC48/STM16 with 3.5 Mpps performance • Built-in Gigabit Ethernet connectivity • Support for Shared Port Adapters • Multiprotocol routing: IP, IPX, AppleTalk, DLSw • Compact size, high availability and optimal cooling Key Features • Cisco 7301-Offers up to 1 Mpps processing performance - Pluggable Gigabit Ethernet optics (SFPs); 3 fixed 10/100/1000-Mbps ports (RJ-45 or SFP optics) directly on the processor - Full Cisco IOS feature support - Up to 1GB of available DRAM; Up to 256MB of removable compact flash memory - Front-back airflow and single sided management • Cisco 7304-Compact modular form factor with 4-RU with four port adapter slots per chassis - Targeted toward Broadband aggregation, IPv6 gateway, Managed services, Switching-customer edge (MPLS-CE), Cost-effective route reflector, Enterprise network, Secure Internet gateway, Large-branch-office router, and Network-appliance router principal application areas within a Service provider networks - Comes with a choice of 3 route processors: NSE-100, NSE-150 and NPE-G100; NSE-100 and NSE-150 offer PXF-based performance - Hardware-accelerated services such as Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF), NetFlow v8, and Turbo ACL - Offers up to 3.5 Mpps performance for PXF-accelerated services with the NSE-100, NSE-150 Network Services Forwarding Engine - Two Gigabit Ethernet ports per NSE-100; Four On-board Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces per NSE-150; Three Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces per NPE-G100 and offers up to 1Mpps performance - System redundancy-optional dual processors and dual AC or DC power supplies increases network availability - NSE-150 engine offers unmatched price/performance: Parallel Express Forwarding (PXF) technology delivers hardware-accelerated network services with up to 3.5-Mpps forwarding rate; Improved performance and scalability with 800-MHz microprocessor and 2Gb main memory; High platform port density with up to 4 onboard Gigabit Ethernet ports Competitive Products • Cisco 7301-Juniper: ERX310, ERX700; Redback: SE100Cisco • Cisco 7304-Juniper: M7i, M10i, ERX1400; Huawei: N20-2/4/8; Redback: SE400 1-30 Cisco 7300 Series