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Product Bulletin No. 364399
Introducing New Cisco ME 3400 Series Ethernet Access Switches –
Cisco ME 3400G-12CS and 3400G-2CS Switches
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
Cisco Systems
®
introduces three new switches to its Cisco
®
ME 3400 Series Ethernet Access Switches, a series of next-generation
customer-located equipment (CLE) built especially for triple-play (data, voice, and video) Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN services. The three
new switches are the Cisco ME 3400G-12CS AC, ME 3400G-12CS DC, and ME 3400G-2CS AC Switches. The Cisco ME 3400G-12CS
AC and DC Switches are positioned for service providers who want to offer higher-bandwidth services. Equipped with dual-purpose
interfaces and redundant power supplies, these Gigabit switches can also be positioned for in-building aggregation. The Cisco ME 3400G-
2CS Switch is positioned as the intelligent Ethernet demarcation device at the customer premises. With support of Ethernet operations,
administration, maintenance, and provisioning (OAM&P) features, the Cisco ME 3400G-2CS greatly reduces service providers’ operating
expenses (OpEx) by supporting remote monitoring and troubleshooting. Designed to replace the “Smartjack” in TDM networks, the Cisco
ME 3400G-2CS also offers advanced functionalities such as Flex-Links for link redundancy, quality of service (QoS) for differentiated
services, and Layer 3 routing for advance IP services to support highly available premium services.
Table 1 provides brief descriptions of the Cisco ME 3400 Series Switches and options.
Table 1.
Cisco ME 3400 Series Ethernet Access Switches and Software Feature Images
Product Name (Part Number)
Description
Cisco ME 3400G-12CS AC Ethernet Access
Switch
(ME-3400G-12CS-A)
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12 dual-purpose (10/100/1000 and Small Form-Factor Pluggable [SFP]) ports
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4 SFP-based Gigabit Ethernet and 100BASE-X ports
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Dual fixed redundant AC power supplies
●
26-mpps forwarding rate
●
1 rack unit (RU) multilayer switch
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Purpose-built Gigabit Ethernet access switch for the Metro Ethernet market
●
3 Cisco IOS
®
Software feature image options (METROBASE, METROACCESS, and
METROIPACCESS)
Cisco ME 3400G-12CS DC Ethernet Access
Switch
(ME-3400G-12CS-D)
●
12 dual-purpose (10/100/1000 and SFP) ports
●
4 SFP-based Gigabit Ethernet and 100BASE-X ports
●
Dual fixed redundant DC power supplies
●
26-mpps forwarding rate
●
1 RU multilayer switch
●
Purpose-built Gigabit Ethernet access switch for the Metro Ethernet market
●
3 Cisco IOS Software feature image options (METROBASE, METROACCESS, and
METROIPACCESS)
Cisco ME 3400-2CS AC Ethernet Access Switch
(ME-3400G-2CS-A)
●
2 dual-purpose (10/100/1000 and SFP) ports
●
2 SFP-based Gigabit Ethernet and 100BASE-X ports
●
AC power supplies
●
6.5-mpps forwarding rate
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1 RU small form-factor multilayer switch
●
Purpose-built intelligent Ethernet demarcation switch
●
3 Cisco IOS Software feature image options (METROBASE, METROACCESS, and
METROIPACCESS)
