
Figure 2 Cisco 3600 Series
CISCO 3600 SERIES:HIGH PERFORMANCE FOR
BRANCH OFFICES
From the beginning, the Cisco 3600 series was designed with
performance, flexibility, and cost effectiveness inmind, making
the multiservice branch office possible today. The 100 MHz
R4700 RISC processor of the Cisco 3640 server packs all the
punchyou’ll needforamultiservicebranch officesolution,with
50 to 70 thousand packets per second (kpps) throughput
capacity. The Cisco 3620 chassis has the same processor
running at 80 MHz for 20 to 40 kpps throughput capacity.
Modular Design
The modular Cisco 3600 series is available as a two- or
four-slotchassis.Eachchassissupports a widearray ofnetwork
modules, making the platform highly configurable to meet
current and future connectivity requirements. It is sometimes
difficult to ascertain just how requirements will change in the
future, so the Cisco 3600 platform is designed to shift in any
number of directions to meet evolving needs in dial access,
routing or LAN-to-LAN, and multiservice voice, video, and
data integration.
Such versatility makes the Cisco 3600 series an ideal
branch office solution for several application areas. It allows
Cisco customers to build highly customized solutions with the
Cisco 3600 platform. These key application areas include:
• Branch office routing
• Multiservice voice, video, and data integration
• Hybrid ISDN access server with integrated digital modems
• Inter-VLAN routing
• Asynchronous terminal services
• High density ISDN or asynchronous dial access
• Systems Network Architecture (SNA) mainframe access
• WAN services concentration
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