Cisco CISCO1921-SEC/K9 Router

Cisco 1900 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISRs) build on 25 years of Cisco innovation and product leadership. The new platforms are architected to enable the next phase of branch-office evolution, providing
rich-media collaboration to the branch office while maximizing operational cost savings. The Cisco Integrated Services Routers Generation 2 (ISR G2) platforms are future-enabled with multicore CPUs, Gigabit Ethernet switching with enhanced Power over Ethernet (PoE), and new energy monitoring and control capabilities that enhance overall system performance. Additionally, a new Cisco IOS Software Universal image enables you to decouple the deployment of hardware and software, providing a stable technology foundation that can quickly adapt to evolving network requirements. Overall, the Cisco 1900 Series offers exceptional Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) savings and network agility through the intelligent integration of market-leading security, unified communications, wireless, and application services.

Product Overview

The Cisco 1921 builds on the best-in-class offering of the Cisco 1841 Integrated Services Routers. All Cisco 1900 Series Integrated Services Routers offer embedded hardware encryption acceleration, optional firewall, intrusion prevention, and advanced security services. In addition, the platforms support the industry’s widest range of wired and wireless connectivity options such as Serial, T1/E1, xDSL, Gigabit Ethernet, and Third-Generation (3G) wireless (Figure 1).

Key Business Benefits

Cisco ISR G2 routers provide superior services integration and agility. Designed for scalability, the modular architecture of these platforms enables you to grow and adapt with your business needs. Table 1 lists the business benefits of the Cisco 1900.

Table 1.       Key Features and Benefits of the Cisco 1921 Integrated Services Router

Architecture and Modularity

The Cisco 1921 is architected to meet the application demands of today’s branch offices with design flexibility for future applications. The modular architecture is designed to support expanding customer requirements, increased bandwidth, and fully integrated power distribution to modules supporting 802.3af PoE and Cisco Enhanced PoE (ePoE). Table 2 lists the architectural features and benefits of the Cisco 1921.

Table 2.       Architectural Features and Benefits

Modularity Features and Benefits

The Cisco 1921 provides significantly enhanced modular capabilities (refer to Table 3) that offer you investment protection. Most of the modules available on previous generations of Cisco routers, such as the Cisco 1841 ISR, are supported on the Cisco 1921. Additionally, you can easily interchange modules used on the Cisco 1921 with other Cisco routers to provide maximum investment protection. Taking advantage of common interface cards across a network greatly reduces the complexity of managing inventory requirements, implementing large network rollouts, and maintaining configurations across a variety of branch-office sizes.

A complete list of supported modules is available at https://www.cisco.com/go/1921.

Table 3.       Modularity Features and Benefits

Cisco IOS Software

The Cisco 1921 Integrated Services Routers deliver innovative technologies running on industry-leading Cisco IOS Software. Developed for wide deployment in the world’s most demanding enterprise, access, and service provider networks, Cisco IOS Software Releases 15M and T support a comprehensive portfolio of Cisco technologies, including new functions and features delivered in Releases 12.4 and 12.4T, and new innovations that span multiple technology areas, including security, high availability, IP Routing and Multicast, Quality of Service (QoS), IP Mobility, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), VPNs, and embedded management.

Cisco IOS Software Licensing and Packaging

A single Cisco IOS Universal image encompassing all functions is delivered with the platforms. You can enable advanced features by activating a software license on the Universal image. In previous generations of access routers, these feature sets required you to download a new software image. Technology packages and feature licenses, enabled through the Cisco software licensing infrastructure, simplify software delivery and decrease the operational costs of deploying new features.

Four major technology licenses are available on the Cisco 1921 Integrated Services Routers; you can activate the licenses through the Cisco software activation process identified at https://www.cisco.com/go/sa.

●   IP Base: This technology package is available as default

●   Data

●   Security (SEC) or Security with No Payload Encryption (SEC-NPE)

For additional information and details about Cisco IOS Software licensing and packaging on Cisco 1921 Integrated Services Routers, please visit https://www.cisco.com/go/1921.

Cisco ONE Software

Cisco ONE Software offers a valuable and flexible way to buy software for theWAN, access, and data center domains. At each stage in the product lifecycle, Cisco ONE Software helps make buying, managing, and upgrading your network and infrastructure software easier. Cisco ONE Software provides:

●   Flexible licensing models to smoothly distribute customers’ software spending over time

●   Investment protection for software purchases through software services–enabled license portability

●   Access to updates, upgrades, and new technology from Cisco through Cisco Software Support Services (SWSS)

Cisco ONE for WAN gives organizations broad capabilities for branch offices and the enterprise edge. Cisco ONE Foundation for WAN connects and secures your branch office while optimizing for cost. Cisco ONE WAN Collaboration integrates voice and video into your branch office and network edge.

Key Branch-Office Services

The industry-leading Cisco Integrated Services Routers offer unprecedented levels of services integration. Designed to meet the requirements of the branch office, these platforms provide a complete solution with security, mobility, and data services. Businesses enjoy the benefit by deploying a single device that meets all their needs and saves on capital and operational expenses.

Integrated Network Security for Data and Mobility

Security is essential to protect a business’ intellectual property while also ensuring business continuity and providing the ability to extend the corporate workplace to employees who need anytime, anywhere access to company resources. As part of the architectural framework of the SAFE Blueprint from Cisco that allows organizations to identify, prevent, and adapt to network security threats, the Cisco 1900 Series ISRs facilitate secure business transactions and collaboration.

The Cisco IOS Software Security technology package license for the Cisco 1900 Series offers a wide array of common security features such as advanced application inspection and control, threat protection, and encryption architectures for enabling more scalable and manageable VPN networks in one solution set. The Cisco 1921 offers native hardware-based encryption acceleration to provide greater IPsec throughput with less overhead for the router processor when compared with software-based encryption solutions. Cisco ISRs offer a comprehensive and adaptable security solution for branch-office routers that include features such as:

●   Secure connectivity: Achieve secure collaborative communications with Group Encrypted Transport VPN, Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN), or Enhanced Easy VPN.

●   Integrated threat control: Respond to sophisticated network attacks and threats using Cisco IOS Firewall, Cisco IOS Zone-Based Firewall, Cisco IOS IPS, and Cisco ScanSafe Web Security and Flexible Packet Matching (FPM).

●   Identity management: Intelligently protect endpoints using technologies such as Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).

Detailed information about the security features and solutions supported on the Cisco 1900 Series routers is available at https://www.cisco.com/go/routersecurity.

Mobility Services

Wireless WAN

Cisco 3G Wireless WAN (WWAN) modules combine traditional enterprise router functions such as remote management, advanced IP services such as Voice over IP (VoIP), and security, with mobility capabilities of 3G WAN access. Using high-speed 3G wireless networks, routers can replace or complement existing landline infrastructure such as dialup, Frame Relay, and ISDN. Cisco 3G solutions support 3G standards High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA+) and Evolution Data Only/Evolution Data Optimized (EVDO), offering you a true multipath WAN backup and the ability to rapidly deploy primary WAN connectivity. For more information about 3G solutions on Cisco ISRs, please visit https://www.cisco.com/go/3g.

Integrated LAN Switching

The Cisco 1921 Integrated Services Router will support the EHWIC LAN modules when they become available in the future. The Cisco 1921 supports the existing singlewide Cisco EtherSwitch HWIC and the doublewide HWIC-D modules, which greatly expand the capabilities of the router by integrating industry-leading Layer 2 switching.

Managing Your Integrated Services Routers

Network management applications are instrumental in lowering Operating Expenditures (OpEx) while improving network availability by simplifying and automating many of the day-to-day tasks associated with managing an end-to-end network. “Day-one device support” provides immediate manageability support for the ISR, enabling quick and easy deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting from Cisco and third-party applications.

Organizations rely on Cisco, third-party, and in-house developed network management applications to achieve their Operating Expense (OpEx) and productivity goals. Underpinning those applications are the embedded management features available in every ISR. The new ISRs continue a tradition of broad and deep manageability features within the devices. Features such as Cisco IOS IP Service-Level Agreements (IP SLAs), Cisco IOS Embedded Event Manager (EEM), and NetFlow allow you to know what is going on in your network at all times. These features along with Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and syslog support enable your organization’s management applications.

Tables 4 through 6 give details about Cisco IOS software feature and protocol support, Cisco IOS software management capabilities, and Cisco Network Management applications for Cisco 1921 Integrated Services Routers.

Table 4.       Cisco 1921 with Cisco IOS Software Feature and Protocol High-Level Support

For a more comprehensive list of features supported in Cisco IOS Software, refer to the Feature Navigator tool at: https://www.cisco.com/go/fn.

Table 5 highlights several ISR management capabilities that are available within Cisco IOS Software.

Table 5.       Cisco IOS Software Management Capabilities

Cisco Network Management Applications

The applications listed in Table 6 are standalone products that you can purchase or download to manage your Cisco network devices. The applications are built for the different operational phases; you can select the ones that best fit your needs.

Table 6.       Network Management Solutions

Summary and Conclusion

As businesses strive to lower the TCO in running their networks and increase their overall employee productivity with more centralized and collaborative network applications, more intelligent branch-office solutions are required. The Cisco 1921 offers these solutions by providing enhanced performance and increased modular density to support multiple services. The Cisco 1921 is designed to consolidate the functions of separate devices into a single, compact system that can be remotely managed. Table 7 gives specifications of the Cisco 1921.

Product Specifications

Table 7.       Product Specifications of Cisco 1921 Integrated Services Router

Supported Modules

Cisco 1921 Integrated Services Routers support a wide range of modules that span industry-leading breadths of services at the branch office. Please refer to the following link for the list of modules supported on the Cisco 1900: https://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10538/products_relevant_interfaces_and_modules.html.

Ordering Information

For more information about the Cisco 1900 Series, visit https://www.cisco.com/go/1921.

Table 8.       Cisco 1921 Basic Ordering Information

Cisco ONE Software for WAN is available for the ISR 1921.

Cisco ONE Software offers a complete solution that delivers an optimal experience over any connection while helping you get the most from your WAN investment with secure, fault-tolerant connectivity.

Benefits:

●   Connect branch offices and your campus securely at an optimal cost by improving application performance through application protocol acceleration and optimization techniques that offload the WAN.

●   Integrate voice and video across branch offices and your campus to increase productivity.

For ordering information for Cisco ONE Software for the ISR 1921, go to https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/software/one-wan/wan-part-numbers.html.

For More Information

For more information about the Cisco 1900 Series, visit https://www.cisco.com/go/1900 or contact your local Cisco account representative.