The Cisco AS5850 Universal Gateway is a high-density, carrier-class gateway, offering unparalleled capacity and high availability. The Cisco AS5850 Universal Gateway is specifically designed to meet the demands of large, innovative service providers, supporting up to five channelized T3s (CT3s), 96 T1s or 86 E1s of data, voice, and fax services, on any port at any time. It offers high-availability features such as hot-swap on all cards, load-sharing and redundant hot-swappable power supplies, redundant route-processing cards and call-admission control to ensure 99.999-percent availability.