From where you stand, it doesn't seem like a tremendous leap. Your high-capacity core network has more than ample bandwidth. Your enterprise customers are accessing the Internet and transferring multi-megabyte data files across their networks with aplomb. But the moment you want to offer value-added, high-margin services--such as videoconferencing or integrated voice and data--you have an entirely different scenario. When those hefty packets hit your network edge or metro-area network, the performance stalls and then crawls.

Bandwidth-related access services are quickly becoming a commodity, forcing you to look for richer service offerings that will return profitability to your margins. Whether those offering include voice, video, or real-time content, or provide secure IP virtual private networks (VPNs) with guaranteed service-level agreements--the fact is bandwidth bottlenecks between the enterprise network and your core network are crippling performance and limiting revenue opportunities. Either you offer high-bandwidth or just a few feature-rich services. You can't do both.

Who says? Certainly not Cisco Systems. Cisco offers the industry's only portfolio of 10-Gbps-per-slot, full duplex, IP routing solutions that do away with bottlenecks and capacity mismatches in strategic network links. Whether you need 10-Gbps deployed in access links, your network edge, or to move IP services into your metro network--now you can eliminate bottlenecks and be perfectly positioned to deliver high-speed services to your customers' premises when they need them.

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