SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO - News), today announced a powerful set of new hardware, software and provisioning capabilities for its broadband aggregation portfolio, boosting scalability and performance while lowering deployment costs for broadband services. Cisco is doubling the session capacity of the Cisco 7200 and 7400 Series routers and is offering the industry's highest subscriber density on the Cisco 10000 Series Router. These capabilities further extend Cisco's industry leadership in price/performance for broadband aggregation. Leading service providers like Internet Gold and Onvoy have deployed Cisco Broadband Aggregation solutions and can benefit from the new Broadband Access Center, a fully integrated provisioning and management solution for broadband aggregation networks coupled with additional dynamic auto-provisioning capabilities all of which are used to accelerate the delivery of value-added services such as: virtual private networks (VPNs), network-based firewalls, content filtering and personalized portals. "The Cisco Broadband Aggregation portfolio accelerates profitability while lowering total cost of ownership with the industry's leading price/performance model -- critical success factors for today's service providers," said Mike Volpi, senior vice president and general manager of the Cisco Router Technology Group. "Customers like Onvoy and Internet Gold are now able to benefit from the highest session scalability and dynamic autoprovisioning capabilities to deliver the most robust set of value-added services to their end users." Cisco Systems Inc.