Routers are the heart of connectivity infrastructure, securely steering data packets from one network to another. Cisco Systems supplies the vast majority of the world's routers and has created an extensive catalog that features routers designed to deliver the protection, throughput, and reliability features needed by businesses of all sizes. Cisco routers have built-in support for redundancy, instant failover, and backup power for improved availability and network productivity. These features help you to build a strong basis for an information network that is easy to grow as you accommodate new users, establish new offices, deploy new capabilities, extend your network to customers and partners, and support a more mobile user base.

Cisco Routers Designed for Small, Midsized and Large Companies
Cisco's integrated services routers offer a comprehensive solution that reduces network downtime and ensures access to the most business-critical applications. Cisco's concentration on combining new services with high speed allows businesses to create networks that are more intelligent, more robust, and more dependable. For organizations of all sizes who require fast, protected connectivity to their mission-critical applications as well as a strong basis for future expansion, Cisco routers offer a product line designed for safe, fast transmission of simultaneous data traffic. Cisco's latest routers incorporate security and voice support into an integrated routing solution that speeds application deployment and reduces operating expenses and complexity.

SB 100 Series Routers
Cisco's SB 100 line of broadband routers represents an affordable router solution for data-only traffic in small offices with up to five users. SB 100 versions include Asymmetric DSL (ADSL), ADSL, or an Ethernet wide area network version with a 4-connection 10/100 Ethernet switch. Every SB 100 offers protected connectivity with integrated stateful firewall and support for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)-based Virtual Private Networks. In addition, an easy-to-use configuration utility, Cisco SDM, allows you to set up the SB 100 and its integrated firewall, and remote administration capabilities in IOS Software allow easy installation and centralized support.

Cisco Small Business 100 Routers have been superseded by the Cisco 850 and 870 routers. Progent's Cisco-certified consultants can help your business to maintain your existing SB 100 devices and help you upgrade to more advanced routers.

Cisco 800 Family Routers
The Cisco 870 and 850 Access Routers are fixed-configuration routers that provide protected, simultaneous services over broadband interfaces in small remote offices, teleworker, and small company sites.

Cisco 850 Series routers are designed for small offices, recommended for up to 10 users or for telecommuter environments where only secure and economical access is required. 850 Series access routers offer protected access with firewall and IP security Virtual Private Network features for small LANs, 4-port 10/100 switch, secure WiFi option with an antenna, and simple configuration and integration and remote management capabilities through Web-enabled tools and Cisco IOS Software.

Cisco 870 Series routers are targeted for small networks, recommended for as many as 20 workers or for teleworker sites where high-quality VoIP and video and resilient access utilizing backup WAN. wide area network connections are required, in addition to secure access. 870 Series routers offer excellent speed for WAN access in small workgroups as well as tight security through capabilities such as stateful Inspection Firewall, IP Security (IPsec) Virtual Private Networks, 3DES or Advanced Encryption Standard plus DMVPN and Tunnel-less Group Encrypted Transport, IPS, and virus protection using Network Admission Control (NAC) and enforcement of safe access policies.

Cisco 870 Series access routers also offer advanced quality of service (QoS), 4-port 10/100 Ethernet managed switch with VLAN support, secure wireless option with multiple antennas, easy setup and deployment through Web-enabled utilities and remote administration features via Cisco IOS Software, and PoE support to work with IP phones or external wireless access points.

Cisco 1800 Series Integrated Services Routers
The modular Cisco 1800 Series of integrated services routers intelligently embed data and security into a single robust system for fast, expandable connectivity with strategic business programs. The Cisco 1800 Series router design has been specifically engineered to satisfy the needs of small and midsize businesses (SMBs), enterprise branch offices, and ISP-managed services applications for delivery of simultaneous services at high-speed throughput. The integrated services systems design of the Cisco 1800 Series routers offers maximum versatility and investment protection.

Engineered for protected data access, Cisco's 1841 router provides significant added value relative to prior generations of 1700 Series routers by delivering more than a 5x performance increase plus built-in hardware-based encryption enabled by an optional IOS Software protection image. The Cisco 1841 device dramatically increases plug-in card slot performance and capacity in comparison to the Cisco 1700 Series while maintaining support for dozens of available Wide Area Network interface cards (WICs) and multiflex trunk cards (voice/WICs-for data only on the 1841 router). The Cisco 1841 router offers further improvement of VPN speed via an available VPN acceleration module; an intrusion prevention system (IPS) and firewall capabilities; compatibility with a wide array of connectivity needs, such as support for optional integrated switch ports; plus enough speed and expansion slot capacity for ongoing network expansion and next-generation applications.

2800 Integrated Services Routers
Designed for small to midsize businesses (SMBs) and corporate branch offices, the Cisco 2800 Series routers comprises four basic versions: the 2801 router, the Cisco 2811 route, the Cisco 2821, and the Cisco 2851. The Cisco 2800 Series routers provides substantial added value compared to prior generations of Cisco devices at similar prices by delivering as much as a 5x performance improvement, up to a tenfold increase in protection and voice speed, embedded service features, and radically enhanced slot speed and density while preserving compatibility with most of the more than 90 existing expansion modules in use currently for the Cisco 1700, the Cisco 2600 Series, and Cisco's 3700 routers.

The Cisco 2800 Series routers deliver a variety of high-quality concurrent services at wire data rates up to numerous T1/E1/xDSL connections. 2800 Series routers provide built-in encryption acceleration and on-the-motherboard voice digital-signal-processor add-in slots; IPS and firewall functions; optional internal call handling and voice mail support; high-density interfaces for a wide range of tethered and untethered connectivity options; and sufficient performance and slot density to handle further network expansion requirements and new applications.

Cisco's 2800 Series offers a range of common security features such as a Cisco IOS Software Firewall, an intrusion prevention, IPSec VPN, Secure Socket Layer VPN, powerful application inspection and management, Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol Version 2.0, and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3) in a single protected solution. Also, by incorporating security functions directly into the router itself, Cisco can provide special intelligent protection solutions other security appliances can't, such as NAC for virus defense; V3PN for QoS enforcement when combining voice, video, and Virtual Private Networks; DMVPN; Group Encrypted Transport; VPN; and Easy VPN for supporting more expandable and easier to manage VPN environments.

Companies can utilize the Cisco 2800 Series router to deploy a converged IP telephony environment for up to 96 IP phones, and can safely deploy data, voice, and IP telephony on a single platform for their small-to-medium sized satellite offices.

The Cisco 2800 Series router supports a built-in access point for 802.11x wireless network access, Wi-Fi Hotspot capability for shared public wireless access, and infrastructure services for portable WLAN telephony and for larger sites.

Cisco 3800 Integrated Services Routers
3800 Series routers are designed for small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and corporate satellite locations to offer businesses the highest degree of network agility, performance, and intelligence. 3800 Series integrated services routers smoothly integrate the latest technologies, smart services, and protected corporate communications into a single resilient system. The Cisco 3800 Series routers ease deployment and management, lower network cost and complexity, and provide investment protection. Cisco 3800 Series integrated services routers offer embedded security processing, excellent throughput and large memory capacity, and high-capacity interfaces that provide the performance, resilience, and dependability necessary for scaling mission-critical security, IP telephony, high-volume video, system analysis, and Web programs in even the most demanding corporate environments. Built for speed, the 3800 Series integrated services routers deliver multiple simultaneous services that match wire-speed T3/E3 rates.

The proprietary routing architecture of the 3800 router is built to embed and combine security and voice processing with advanced wired and wireless services for fast installation of new services, including application layer operations, intelligent network services, and converged communications. The Cisco 3800 integrated services router meets the bandwidth requirements for multiple Fast Ethernet interfaces per expansion slot, time-division multiplexing connections, and fully integrated power sourcing to modules supporting 802.3af PoE, while still accommodating the existing portfolio of modular interfaces. This permits ongoing ROI by allowing network scaling or adapting to changes in technology as the latest services are added. By integrating the functions of multiple separate appliances into a single small unit, the Cisco 3800 router dramatically lowers the cost and complexity of managing remote networks.

Cisco 7200 VXR Routers
The7200 VXR Series router offers exceptional speed, modularity, and expandability in a small form factor with a wide selection of configuration profiles. With processing speeds as high as two million packets per second, adapters spanning from NxDS0 to 1 GigE, and OC-3 as well as an unparalleled number of high-touch IP services, the Cisco 7200 VXR router is the preferred broadband aggregation edge solution for large corporations and ISPs.

The Cisco 7200 VXR router features broadband aggregation by supporting up to 16,000 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) sessions per unit, voice/video/data support with time-division multiplexer (TDM)-enabled VXR chassis and voice interface adapters, direct IP-interconnections, and IPSec VPN expandable to 5K tunnels per device.

The 7200 VXR Integrated Services router integrates into a single chassis functions formerly handled by multiple appliances. Through this consolidation, the 7200 VXR Integrated Services router offers a single, affordable platform that accommodates high-density LAN and WAN connections as well as broadband subscriber services aggregation which includes Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP), RFC 1483 termination, and Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) tunneling; digital T1/E1 time-division multiplexer (TDM) trunk termination for and data; high-density multichannel T3/E3 and T1/E1 with integrated channel service unit/data service unit (CSU/DSU); ATM, Packet over SONET (PoS), and Dynamic Packet Transport (DPT) access; ATM IMA for video; and low-volume Layer 2 Ethernet switching.

7600 Series Routers
The 7600 Integrated Services router takes advantage of the Catalyst 6500 infrastructure with an NEBS-3 chassis, 256-Gbps crossbar switch fabric, and 30-Mpps switching performance. Fault tolerance is implemented through redundancy as well as Cisco IOS Software functions. In addition, the Cisco 7600 router provides a rich set of high-touch IP network services at optical speed via various OSMs enabled by Cisco proprietary PXF technology.

The 7609 router has the option to select a 256-Gbps SFM or a 32-Gbps data bus, delivering centralized switching performance of 30 million packets per second or 15 million packets per second respectively. When the SFM is used, the 7609 can also allow distributed switching with throughput up to 168 million packets per second by using the Cisco Catalyst 6500 16-port Gigabit Ethernet card, which is controlled by the DFC and the SFM.

The Cisco 7603 Series router provides exclusively the standard 32-Gbps data bus option and provides 15 million packets per second switching performance. The Cisco 7603 router does not support distributed switching technology.

Older Cisco Routers Maintained by Progent's Consultants
Progent's Cisco certified engineers are experienced with older Cisco routers no longer offered by Cisco. Progent can help you to support these older routers and can also help you to prepare for and implement migrations to newer versions. Legacy Cisco routers maintained by Progent include: