Cisco 3G Wireless WAN High-Speed WAN Interface Card HWIC-3G-GSM= Manuale Utente

This document describes third-generation (3G) wireless high-speed WAN interface cards (HWICs) and 
how to connect the 3G wireless HWICs to a cellular network, and contains the following sections:

For an overview of Cisco interface cards used for Cisco access routers see the 

 document.

The 3G wireless HWIC is a multiband, multiservice WAN card. Its primary application is WAN 
connectivity as a backup datalink for critical data applications and as a primary WAN connection. It 
supports the Cisco 1800 series, the Cisco 2800 series and the Cisco 3800 series integrated service 
routers (Cisco ISRs).

The 3G wireless WAN HWIC houses one cellular modem for connection to a wireless WAN. There are 
two different cellular modem (wireless WAN) HWIC versions based on 3G cellular technologies:

HWIC-3G-GSM

HWIC-3G-CDMA