Cisco 3600 Series Routers

The Cisco 3600 is an ideal upgrade to branches that have outgrown their current routing hardware and require the next generation of hardware for their "power branch" applications. The flexibility of the Cisco 3600 series enables you to support a variety of solutions for the power branch office environment. No matter how much your requirements may vary from place to place, the Cisco 3600 platform has the performance and diversity to meet your needs, at a very cost-effective price. For instance, a branch office using ISDN to connect to the main office may require dedicated Frame Relay service in a year's time with increased traffic on the network---without a forklift upgrade in the wiring closet.

The Cisco 3640 server is equipped with four network module slots, the Cisco 3620 with two. Dial connectivity is supported with a series of network modules offering Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) Primary Rate Interface (PRI), ISDN Basic Rate Interface (BRI), integrated digital modems, very high density asynchronous interfaces, and asynchronous/synchronous serial interfaces. LAN and WAN connectivity are provided by a series of mixed-media cards supporting Ethernet, Token Ring, and a variety of WAN technologies. Routing applications are supported with high-density Ethernet and a single-port, autosensing, Fast Ethernet network module. Finally, multiservice applications will be supported by integrated voice network modules, which will be available by Q4'97.

The Cisco 3600 is the industry's first true multifunction platform with the versatility to support branch/enterprise dial access applications, LAN-to-LAN or routing applications, and multiservice applications in a single server. It provides unprecedented modularity options with a broad range of available network modules, enormous flexibility with a variety of configurable options for customer-specific application scenarios, and, above all, high performance to support any of these applications.