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Data Sheet

Cisco Enhanced High-Speed WAN
Interface Cards

Cisco Gigabit Ethernet Dual-Identity Small Form-Factor Pluggable and Copper
Enhanced High-Speed WAN Interface Card.

Product Overview

The Cisco

Gigabit Ethernet Dual-Identity Enhanced High-Speed WAN Interface Card (EHWIC) brings both Small

Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) and copper (RJ-45) Gigabit Ethernet connectivity to Cisco Integrated Services

Routers (ISRs) to accelerate applications such as Ethernet WAN access, inter-VLAN routing (IVR), and high-speed

connectivity to LAN switches.

The single-port Cisco Gigabit Ethernet EHWIC provides Gigabit Ethernet optical and copper connectivity in a

compact form factor to the Cisco Integrated Service Router Generation 2 (ISR G2).

The Gigabit Ethernet EHWIC enables branch offices to cost-effectively use high-speed uplinks in numerous

environments (Figure 1). The enhanced performance of Gigabit Ethernet in Cisco ISR G2 routers enables new

applications and services and provides greater capacity for existing IVR and bridging capabilities. Branch offices

can now connect to Ethernet WAN (EWAN) Layer 2 and 3 services.

Note: The EHWIC provides Gigabit Ethernet connectivity but will not support line rate since throughput is limited by

the platforms. The maximum throughput cannot exceed 800 Mbps bidirectionally.

For flexibility, the EHWIC includes one SFP slot, which supports a Cisco SFP (see Table 1 later in this document)

and a copper RJ-45 port, where either the SFP port (operating at 100/1000 Mbps) or the RJ-45 (operating at

10/100/1000 Mbps) port can be active at one time. The SFP port supports digital optical monitoring (DOM) as

specified by the industry-standard SFF-8472 multisource agreement (MSA). This feature enables the end user to

monitor real-time parameters of the SFP, such as optical output power, optical input power, temperature, laser bias

current, and transceiver supply voltage.

Cisco IOS

Software provides enhanced capabilities such as hierarchical quality of service (HQoS), Multiprotocol

Label Switching (MPLS), IP Security (IPsec), and Layer 3 VPNs. Since this is a true routed port card, the user can

configure an IP address directly on the EHWIC-1GE-SFP-CU interface and does not have to configure the port for

VLAN trunking as is done in switched virtual interface (SVI) configurations.