The Cisco 7304 1-Port OC-48c/STM-16 Packet over SONET/SDH Line Card is well suited as a high-speed uplink in numerous solutions. Examples include use as a WAN uplink for a CPE device to use as an uplink from the edge to the distribution layer or core in various network deployments. Using the Cisco Network Services Engine (NSE)-100 Route Processor on the Cisco 7304 Router, this line card can use multiprotocol capability from Cisco IOS Software and PXF technology to deliver hardware-accelerated IP network services.