Boston, MA 06/20/2014 (wallstreetpr) – Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) on June 18, 2014 announced that Antel, the leading communication services provider for businesses and consumers in Uruguay, has chosen Cisco® Aggregation Services Router 9000 Series (ASR 9000) for next generation high speed broadband services in Uruguay. The deployment of Cisco® Aggregation Services Router 9000 Series (ASR 9000) in the network of Antel is called Cisco ASR 9000 Broadband Network Gateway (BNG).
About the Cisco ASR 9000 Broadband Network Gateway (BNG)
Implementation of BNG is based on Cisco IOS XR operating system as well as the architecture of hardware, both of which will help in high-speed, most dense as well as most resilient BNG solution in entire industry.
The implementation of BNG in the network of Antel will allow it to simplify as well as consolidate the network architecture by combining the business as well as residential customers in Ethernet based Service Node, which is single and dual-stack capable (IPv4/IPv6).
Deployment is a result of increasing broadband services demand in Uruguay
The deployment of various clusters of BNG with the 10 and 100GE ports configuration is meant to address the increasing demand of broadband services in Uruguay. It is estimated that the number of Internet subscribers in the country would soon reach 2 million. Exhaustive tests have been conducted by Antel with the ASR 9000.
Highlights of Cisco ASR 9000 Series
This Cisco ASR 9000 Series has been designed specifically for giving flexibility to the network operators to provide new services by offering strong foundation for not only broadband services but also residential video services along with the business class Ethernet.
The Cisco ASR 9000 Series, with the industry’s highest interface density Ethernet platform, can easily meet the need of Antel for 10GE and 100GE ports.
Completed with the IPv4/IPv6 Dual-Stack features, the Cisco ASR 9000 series ascertains that Antel will be able to launch the emerging business services which need specifically IPv6 protocol.
