The Cisco 1700 Series with a single-pair high-bit-rate digital-subscriber-line (G.shdsl) WAN interface card (WIC) is the industry's first multiservice router to deliver business-class broadband service with scalable performance, flexibility, and security for small-medium businesses and small enterprise branch offices. Together with the integrated G.shdsl WIC (WIC-1SHDSL), the Cisco 1700 is the perfect solution for a variety of businesses that require high-speed business-class DSL access on a secure, high-performance modular platform.Combined with the WIC-1SHDSL, the Cisco 1700 delivers cost-effective, high-speed, symmetrical bandwidth at a lower monthly cost than most traditional WAN circuits. This provides businesses with the necessary bandwidth for such critical traffic as voice and videoconferencing, and allows customers to take advantage of the cost savings of integrating voice and data traffic on the same WAN link. Service providers can benefit by offering differentiated service levels through service-level agreements (SLAs) at a more competitive price. The G.shdsl standard (ITU G.991.2) represents the first DSL standard accepted worldwide and is the latest in DSL technology.