As a top-choice for the service provider community, The 7500 series has time and time again showed it can handle continued demand from consumers of service providers for Internet access. These factors are driving service provider and enterprise customers to solutions that optimize network density, bandwidth aggregation, availability, serviceability, and operational costs. The high-performance Cisco 7500 Series Router provides exceptional reliability, availability, serviceability, & performance features to meet mission-critical internetworking requirements, making it the market leader in advanced support for LAN/WAN networks.

A well-distributed architecture that utilizes Versatile Interface Processors (VIPs) technology is at the center to the Cisco 7500's remarkable scalability. Each VIP contains its own processor, providing the capability of switching IP data packets and networking services at the core device level. The overall system performance of Cisco 7500 routers is boosted by the ability scale up when needed, allowing providers to handle more high-speed mission-critical network connections and data packets. The Cisco 7500 series' exceptional RSP produces a top-of-the line routing device, providing an essential platform to run routing protocols with other routers in the network to gather switching intelligence, allowing each individual device the power to switch IP packets.