This in-depth article and accompanying diagrams dish it all out. A distinctive menu of services allows service providers to generate New Economy-style revenues. The service POP delivers information to users, and like a real-life diner, the success of those services depends upon the ingredients, the recipes, how fast they're served, and the price. New economies of scale also make such services available to small and midsized businesses that need such services but could not afford them under old-world ways. The Best Ingredients Cisco offers its service provider customers the industry's most proven platforms for the service POP, replete with features for building a robust POP environment.
Cisco also offers proven recipes for scalable, secure, intelligent POP frameworks.
These solutions allow service providers to expand both POP capacity and capability as their business grows. These interfaces support wire-rate performance for IP and MPLS traffic in a fully loaded system, offering 25 percent greater performance per line card slot than any competitive offering available today. The Cisco 12000 series Internet router supports a series of signature services that enhance its value in service POP environments. Service enablers work in the background to enable scalability and high availability. We're making it possible to deliver high-value services at speeds up to ten gigabits per second.