Cisco announced today that BT Global Services intends to deploy the new Cisco® ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers. BT Global Services has been involved in testing the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers prior to the product's launch in March this year.

Cisco announced today that BT Global Services intends to deploy the new Cisco® ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers. BT Global Services has been involved in testing the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers prior to the product's launch in March this year. 

"One of our key challenges is to quickly roll out new services whilst at the same time managing the operational complexity of delivering those services," said David Stark, vice president, CPE and Converged Services, BT Global Services. "Unlike past generation routers, which are dependant on specific service blades, the Cisco ASR 1000 supports multiple services such as high-speed firewall, security and flexible packet matching on the platform in hardware. There is no need for engineering site visits to install service blades and services can be turned on instantly with minimal network downtime," Stark added.

The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers are driven by the new Cisco QuantumFlow Processor (QFP), the industry's first fully-integrated and programmable processing engine. The ASR 1000 Series features software virtualization to enable 'instant-on' provisioning and the simultaneous use of a wide range of service functionality, including firewall, IP security virtual private networks (IPsec VPNs), deep-packet inspection (DPI) and Session Border Control (SBC). Such broad-ranging embedded capabilities eliminate the need to deploy multiple single-function appliances in addition to a router, offering dramatic savings in capital costs and operations expenses and a reduction in users' carbon footprints. Such capabilities also allow BT Global Services to more quickly respond to their customers changing needs, as new services can be activated remotely instead of requiring a truck roll and service call.