Increasingly, business applications and services affect aggregation requirements and router-integrated services across the WAN and metropolitan-area network (MAN)-in both the branch office and headquarters. Consequently, to continue to meet the increasing need for performance for integrated services at the branch office and headquarters and to maintain exceptional value and flexibility, Cisco Systems ®introduces the newest processor for the Cisco ® 7200VXR Series-the Cisco 7200VXR NPE-G2 Network Processing Engine (Figure 1). The Cisco NPE-G2 addresses the demand for performance and flexibility by further increasing its processing capacity and enabling the latest Cisco IOS ® Software features. Benefits of the Cisco NPE-G2 include the following (refer to Table 1 for details):