AXP-XMediusFAX (click on image to enlarge view)

NME-APPRE Devices (AXP)

APPRE-NME... Application Runtime Network Module (NME)...ordered from Cisco

XmediusFAX Enterprise (linux build)... ordered from Sagem-Interstar.
Application Runtime Extended Platform Network Modules... 302 OR the 522
302- up to 16 channels. 522- up to 24 channels

NME-302: 1.0GHz Pentium, 512MB RAM, 80GB HD
PN# NME-APPRE-302-K9
PN# SN-AXP AXP : Software Infrastructure (Required)
PN# SN-AXP-1.0-K9 : AXP Software Image Version 1.0
*Supported Routers: 2811, 2821, 2851, 3825, 3845

NME-522: 1.4 GHz Pentium, 2GB RAM, 120GB HD
PN# NME-APPRE-522-K9
PN# SN-AXP : AXP Software Infrastructure (Required)
PN# SN-AXP-1.0-K9 : AXP Software Image version 1.0
*Supported Routers: (38xx only) 3825, 3845


APPRE (AXP) 302 522
Cisco ISR 2811 Y N
Cisco ISR 2821 Y N
Cisco ISR 2851 Y N
Cisco ISR 3825 Y Y
Cisco ISR 3845 Y Y

AXP, NME, WAAS, more acronyms to remember

Networking goliath Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is now opening its Integrated Services Router (ISR) and Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) platforms to become Linux-based application server platforms.

"We really think that we're changing the way business models will be built in the branch," she said. Lasser-Raab isn't being overly dramatic, either. Cisco to date has sold more than 4 million ISRs and as such has a large installed base to target with the new application initiative.

Officially called the Cisco Application eXtension Platform (AXP), the new initiative includes both hardware and software for deploying applications on Cisco's routers. The AXP is available as both a module that can plug into modular Cisco ISRs as well as a daughterboard that can plug into a Cisco ISR motherboard.

On the software side, the core operating system of the AXP is Linux. Joel Conover, manager of network systems at Cisco, explained that that the version of Linux used is one that Cisco refers to it as Cisco Hardened Linux.

(See my link to the right on this blog... hardening linux)

AXP early adopters

Cisco’s early AXP application partners include Avocent (branch IT infrastructure management), InterComponentWare (healthcare solution provider), NICE (branch VoIP recording), OSISoft (utilities infrastructure monitoring), Precidia Technologies (IP payment processing), ProSyst (management), Sagem-Interstar (IP fax), Verint (branch VoIP recording), and Workbrain (workforce management), according to the Cisco release.