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Empowered Branch 5 combines the benefits of the Cisco Empowered Branch architecture with the benefits of managed service offerings from your service provider.

More than ever, advanced services in the Cisco portfolio are available as service provider managed offerings. Learn how managed services built on Empowered Branch can help you focus on your core business needs while reducing network complexity.

Cisco Empowered Branch Solution enhancements include:

  • New fixed routing platforms featuring third-generation (3G) wireless and survivable remote site telephony (SRST)
  • Voice innovations that connect users across unified communications networks, and to the PSTN
  • New features to enhance application performance, visibility, and control
  • Tools to manage large-scale deployments

Managed Services and Your IT Department

Managed Services and Your IT Department

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New Products and Enhancements

Routers

New products for the small branch and teleworker allow you to enhance communications, extend wireless capabilities, and improve device configuration:


Application Performance Solutions

Provide performance monitoring, traffic analysis, and troubleshooting or application traffic and control its behavior to optimize application performance:

  • Cisco Network Analysis Module (NAM) Software

Cisco's Accelerated 3G solution provides up to five times more performance over a standard 3G link.


Unified Communications

Enhance converged communications capabilities across the branch using specialized Cisco 880 Series routers and:
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Empowered Branch: Make Your Branch Office as Productive as Headquarters

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Yankee Group: Enabling Performance-Based Multimedia Content Delivery (PDF - 220 KB)

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