The Cisco BPX 8600 series is standards-based ATM switch with advanced IP and ATM capabilities. Designed to meet the demanding, high-traffic needs of a public service provider or large private enterprise, the BPX switch delivers high-performance ATM switching, multiservice adaptation and aggregation for all types of user traffic. Proven in the world's largest ATM and Frame Relay networks, the BPX 8600 enables service providers and large enterprises to meet skyrocketing network demands. The Cisco BPX 8600 series switch offers up to 20 Gbps of high-throughput switching for multiple traffic types data, voice, and vide - and supports a wide range of interfaces, from Frame Relay to full broadband subscriber interfaces, up to 622 Mbps. You can offer multiple services for LAN, X.25, SNA, IP, Frame Relay, and ATM traffic from a single BPX platform. The Cisco BPX 8600 series supports multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) today, and this functionality can be easily added to any BPX switch already installed in the field.The Cisco BPX 8600 series switch provides 800/1600 Mbps of dedicated bandwidth for each of 12 available interface slots, allowing you to expand capacity and maintain high performance. Narrowband interfaces are provisioned on separate shelves tenable full use of the BPX switch's capacity to deliver narrowband and broadband services. The Cisco BPX 8600 series offers ATM switching and integrates user services over broadband and narrowband ATM trunks. With 20 Gbps of high-throughput, low-latency switching, service providers can deliver innovative, revenue-generating data, voice, video, and Internet services. For large enterprises, the Cisco BPX 8600 series combines LAN, SNA, voice, and other types of traffic over a single WAN. The BPX switch also enables organizations to migrate to the next generation of switched internetworks, while complementing existing investments in routers and Frame Relay switches.