Cisco AS5400XM Universal Gateway offers unparalleled capacity in only two rack units (2RUs) and provides best-of-breed voice, fax, and remote-access services. High density, low power consumption, and universal port digital signal processors (DSPs) make the Cisco AS5400XM Universal Gateway ideal for many network deployment architectures, especially co-location environments and mega points of presence (POPs).The Cisco AS5400XM Universal Gateway doubles the performance of the Cisco AS5400 and delivers significant memory enhancements to offer high performance and high reliability in a compact, modular design. It supports existing Cisco AS5400 and AS5400HPX trunk termination and universal port feature cards in a more powerful chassis to help ensure continuing network investment protection. This cost-effective platform is ideally suited for service provider and enterprise environments that require innovative voice, fax, and data services.Demand for new services can be easily accommodated with the Cisco AS5400XM Universal Gateway, whether the initial business opportunity is voice services over broadband, wholesale voice transport, unified communications, call-center services, IP-enabled interactive voice response (IVR), hosted IP telephony, prepaid calling card, Common Channel Signaling System 7 (SS7/C7) interconnect, high-volume Internet access, regional or branch-office connectivity, corporate VPNs, or wholesale dial. The flexibility to use the Cisco AS5400XM Universal Gateway in multiple service environments provides unprecedented capital investment protection. It helps ensure that the network can promptly adapt to changes in the business environment and meet the demands of the marketplace for new services.The Cisco AS5400XM Universal Gateway supports a wide range of IP-based, value-added voice, fax, and data services. It helps service providers with existing data networks quickly and easily add voice services to their portfolios, and carriers that offer voice services over existing TDM networks can expand their coverage more cost-effectively. The Cisco AS5400XM provides the perfect solution for telephony application service providers (ASPs) that want to deploy PC-to-phone, voice portals, voice-enabled Web commerce, and content delivery services.The rich set of Cisco IOS Software features available in the Cisco AS5400XM Universal Gateway helps Internet service providers (ISPs) and enterprise network managers meet traditional dial-in access needs, including Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) and AppleTalk, while supporting the migration to new universal port services.Cisco Systems customers worldwide have proven that Cisco AS5000 universal gateways provide the flexibility, scale, reliability, and suite of services required to meet market demands. By providing the industry's broadest product line of voice gateway and access server products with universal port DSPs, Cisco makes it easy for customers to select the right starting point for a phased rollout based on revenue generation, without compromising future capabilities. Complemented by the industry's highest-rated service and support, Cisco also can provide assistance with startup, maintenance, and marketing tasks, as well as advanced and custom solutions.The Cisco AS5400XM Universal Gateway eliminates the need for switches and routers to create a POP or "POP-in-a-box" solution. The gateway has seven primary universal gateway configurations: 4 CT1/CE1s, 8 CT1/CE1s, 16 CT1/CE1s, and 1 CT3 (up to 648 channels). It also can accommodate 2 CT3 cards for TDM switching and includes an integrated signaling link terminator (SLT) for direct connection to an SS7/C7 signaling gateway.