Cisco Freshens Up Its 7200 Series Bona Fides

May 3, 2007 - it will not be only the network + I nterop General Assembly did not accompanying product blitz from Cisco Systems, Inc. This year, Ciscos 7200 series access to much-needed refresh designed to help improve their sincerity, compared to competing products from Juniper Networks and other piecemeal to do not with the resist.

Cisco announced last week, three new products for its 7200 Series routers: new Cisco 7200 Network Processing Engine (North Point - G2) Cisco 7200 VPN service adapter (all), and Cisco 7200 port adapters folder Keka. Cisco said that all three of these works able to provide security services aggregation router on the OC - 3 and Gigabit Ethernet (Gigabit Ethernet) speed.

Analysts are optimistic about Ciscos 7200 Series product blitz.

"Introduced the G2 [North Point] ... Cisco is to satisfy customers requirements and expectations for higher performance and the provision of such a solution through in situ upgrade solution, installed more than 330,000 Cisco 7200 Series routers, "noted a principal analyst Joel conover for the enterprise infrastructure and the current analysis. "Cisco help combat escalating competition attacks focused on the implementation of its political platform, and gives a huge investment protection story, which will make it more difficult to drive away competitors Cisco from its current location. " Product updates can not come to a relatively good time, Cisco, the market share leader In this section, conover said.

"With the high-speed market dynamics have begun to change, Cisco needs to ensure that it platform, the flexibility to meet the performance requirements of the customer At present, "he wrote:" Although the market share of the deployment environment [service providers and enterprises, Cisco is the dominant incumbent enterprises in this market segment, with as much as 90 percent of the market share . " Cisco is facing exceptional pressure, Juniper Networks, and its position m7i series for 7200, the escalation of choice for more WAN aggregation high-performance, conover pointed out.

"Ciscos North Point - the enhancement of existing G2 performance of the Cisco 7200 vxr platform has shifted focus away from the pure packet routing platforms performance towards integrated services information, Ciscos highly complementary ISR successful launch, in 2004, "he said:" Although this new product is not m7i beyond Junipers platform, in the original packets per second, and give customers upgrade the performance, they need to keep their networks running smoothly.

This, in turn, will allow Cisco a much stronger position from which to defend its installed base , but also enables customers to the more integrated services, In "br> aggregation layer to support a growing number of advanced edge services" - Stephen s woyer