Cisco Cisco Network Capacity Expansion Data Sheet

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Network Capacity Expansion System

Expanding Capacity of Wide Area Networks at Remote and Mobile Sites

Multisite and global organizations today are facing several unique wide area network (WAN)

challenges: the need to provide employees with instant access to centrally located information, the

requirement to continuously back up and replicate mission-critical data to centrally managed data

centers, the desire to provide satisfactory experience for IP phone and video communication, and

the mandate to control bandwidth costs without sacrificing application availability and performance.

The Network Capacity Expansion System (NCE) is designed to help organizations address these

challenges. Cisco NCE is a transport layer performance enhancing proxy (PEP) that increases the

amount of available bandwidth at small to midsized branch offices and remote locations. It is

designed to cost-effectively accelerate data transfer over the WAN by overcoming bandwidth and

latency limitations. With NCE, multisite organizations get more data through and more value out of

their existing WAN links.

Building on the strengths of the award-winning Cisco

integrated services routers (ISRs), Cisco

NCE (Figure 1) is a small-footprint cost-effective module that transparently integrates into the ISR

and natively uses capabilities of Cisco IOS

Software. With millions deployed worldwide, ISRs

support the needs of multisite organizations that want to integrate advanced network services,

such as NCE, into their remote site networks.

Figure 1. Network Capacity Expansion Advanced Integration Module with Cisco 1841 Integrated

Services Router

Key Features

Key Benefits

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Typical 3 to 20 times higher WAN throughput

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Simple and fast to deploy (in minutes)

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Fully transparent to other network services

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Expands available bandwidth

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Reduces bandwidth utilization

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Improves data transfer rates