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IP NGN Carrier Ethernet System for the Zettabyte Era

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Cisco IP Next Generation Network (IP NGN) helps service providers deliver voice, data, and mobile technologies over one converged IP infrastructure. With a converged IP infrastructure, you can offer customers new services like Cisco TelePresence, or high-definition Flip video recording and sharing, with storage capabilities within the network cloud.

Today, the emergence of video, mobile, and cloud computing services create dynamic multidirectional traffic patterns and fuel Internet traffic growth. By 2014, annual global IP traffic will reach almost three-fourths of a zettabyte (767 exabytes). A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes.

Generating Profits with Carrier Ethernet
As a global leader in Carrier Ethernet and IP/MPLS networks, Cisco offers a superior quality converged IP NGN Carrier Ethernet System. It's designed for the zettabyte era and optimized for both TDM and packet (video, mobile, and cloud) service delivery anywhere, anytime, to any Internet-enabled device.

The Cisco IP NGN Carrier Ethernet System offers the following benefits:

• Operational simplicity over a single converged network architecture
• Delivery of unparalleled multimedia experiences with innovations such as inline video performance monitoring
• The ability to scale profitably despite the exponential growth in demand on the network

Cisco IP NGN Carrier Ethernet System
The Cisco Carrier Ethernet System in the Cisco IP NGN architecture (Figure 1) provides integrated links between service- and application-layer components. These links create a converged, intelligent, reliable, and scalable network. With the Carrier Ethernet System, you can:

• Offer highly reliable end-to-end packet transport that is Cisco test certified and validated
• Extend MPLS leadership end-to-end enabling single control plane
• Deliver a comprehensive, multimedia service experience anytime, anywhere, and to any Internet-enabled device
• Unified network management framework designed for the IP NGN

Cisco IP NGN Carrier Ethernet System
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Important features and benefits of the IP NGN Cisco Carrier Ethernet System include:

• Industry's first converged IP infrastructure for video, mobile, and cloud computing services
• Massive scale with 400G/slot ASR 9000 aggregation system
• End-to-end Packet Optical Architecture leadership from the core to the network access layer with new ONS 15454 M2 and ONS 15454 M6 seamlessly migrating TDM traffic over packet optical infrastructure, reducing network elements by integrating optics into packet, optimizing fiber plant, and extending DWDM system with 40G Muxponding via ROADM
• Flexible 1G to 10G service delivery over IP/MPLS access infrastructure with the ME3600X and ME3800X enabling high quality H-QoS granularity for video, mobile, and cloud computing services offering the industry's first pay-as-you-grow network without the hardware swaps


• Industry's first and only intelligent inline video performance monitoring (VidMon) delivering non-stop video experience at line rate 80G/slot

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