Cisco Gigabit Ethernet Half-Height Line Card for the Cisco uBR10012

As competition among broadband service providers intensifies, cable operators face an ever-increasing demand to economically transport new and existing services over their hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) access and metro networks. IP, DOCSIS, and Gigabit Ethernet have emerged as important technologies, enabling operators to move to a single, unified, switched intelligent network infrastructure. Cable operators have increasingly turned to the Ethernet protocol as a Layer 2 metro network solution. Ethernet-based technologies are a big driver behind the transformation of cable operators into successful providers of commercial services. Operators can use Gigabit Ethernet on their unidirectional systems to deliver video on demand (VoD) and broadcast digital video services to business customers. They can carry cable modem traffic and business data from secure virtual private network (VPN) connections over bidirectional Ethernet facilities using optics directly integrated into edge switches and routers. 

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