Cisco 2811, Hot List in Cisco 2800 Series Integrated Services Routers. Cisco 2800 Series, for Small to Large Offices

The used Cisco 2800 Series routers, ideal for small to medium-sized businesses and enterprise branch offices, offer secure, wire-speed delivery of concurrent data, voice, and video services; offer features such as hardware-based VPN encryption acceleration, intrusion-protection and firewall functions, and optional integrated call processing and voice mail; offera wide variety of network modules and interfaces, voice digital signal processor (DSP) slots, high-density interfaces for a wide range of connectivity requirements, and sufficient performance and slot density for future network expansion requirements and advanced applications.

The Cisco 2800 Series comprises four platforms:Cisco 2801,Cisco 2811,Cisco 2821, and Cisco 2851.Cisco 2801and Cisco 2811are one rack unit in height and have two 10/100 LAN ports. The more powerful Cisco 2821 routers and Cisco 2851 routers are two rack units in height and have two 10/100/1000 LAN ports.

The higher-end router platforms of the Cisco 2800 series offer increased performance, increased slot density including network module slots ad extension voice module slots and increased inline power output.

Better serve for small to large business, Cisco 2800 series owns several hot models among Cisco users, such as Cisco 2811, Cisco2821, and Cisco2851, especially Cisco 2811 routers, very popular by google search. So let’s check some details of Cisco 2811 router:

The Cisco 2811 Integrated Services Router provides the following support:

•Wire-speed performance for concurrent services such as security and voice , and advanced services to multiple T1/E1/xDSL WAN rates

•Enhanced investment protection through increased performance and modularity

•Increased density through High-Speed WAN Interface Card Slots (four)

•Enhanced Network Module Slot

•Support for over 90 existing and new modules

•Support for majority of existing AIMs, NMs, WICs, VWICs, and VICs

•Two Integrated 10/100 Fast Ethernet ports

•Optional Layer 2 switching support with Power over Ethernet (PoE) (as an option)

•Security

◦On-board encryption

◦Support of up to 1500 VPN tunnels with the AIM-EPII-PLUS Module

◦Antivirus defense support through Network Admission Control (NAC)

◦Intrusion Prevention as well as stateful Cisco IOS Firewall support and many more essential security features

•Voice

◦Analog and digital voice call support

◦Optional voice mail support

◦Optional support for Cisco CallManager Express (Cisco CME) for local call processing in stand alone business for up to36 IP Phones

◦Optional support for Survivable Remote Site Telephony support for local call processing in small enterprise branch offices for up to 36 IP phones

Cisco 2811’s price info at RouterSwitch.com:

Conditions: New Sealed

List price:  US$2,495.00

Wholesale Price: US$1,048.00

You Save:  US$1,447.00 (58.00% OFF)

Cisco Demos WLAN Controller for Branch Offices at Interop

Cisco Systems officials over the past few months have built out the capabilities of their Borderless Networks initiative in such areas as mobility, security and management. Now the networking giant is looking to extend the reach of the strategy into branch offices.

At Interop 2011 this week in Las Vegas, cisco router officials are showing off their new Flex 7500 Series Cloud Controller and new Integrated Services Router Web Security products for the ISR G2 branch router. The products are part of Cisco’s efforts to meet the demand from businesses that are looking to bring such key capabilities as management and security out of the branch offices and back into main headquarters, according to Prashanth Shenoy, senior manager of Borderless Networks marketing.

“Since data centers began consolidating about a decade ago, a lot of things have been moved out of the branch offices and into the central data center,” Shenoy said in an interview with eWEEK, adding that IT departments are being asked to grow the level of services they offer while seeing their staffing being reduced.

Despite that consolidation, businesses still need to offer the same level of service and user experience to their employees in the branch offices, he said. With the new products announced May 10, businesses will be able to consolidate more of their IT infrastructure in the central data center—a move that will help drive down capital and operational costs—without hurting the operations of the branch offices, and deliver their services through the increasingly popular cloud computing model.

The Flex 7500 Series Cloud Controller is housed in the data center, letting IT administrators remotely manage up to 500 branch offices from a central location. They can remotely wireless policies, manage the branch offices and offer security settings without the time and expense of having to physically go to the offices, Sylvia Hooks, senior manager of mobility marketing at cisco871 , said in an interview.

The new WLAN (wireless LAN) controller can control up to 2,000 WiFI access points—twice the number currently supported—and more than 20,000 clients from the data center, Hooks said. A goal was to “allow the branch office to be independent” while still getting the technology capabilities they need to do their jobs, she said.

 The controller is available immediately, starting at $47,955.

In addition, Cisco in July will start shipping the ISR Web Security software, which extends the company’s ScanSafe Cloud Web Security to branch offices by putting centralized Web protection and malware detection onto the ISR G2 branch router.

According to  cisco 871 officials, the new software will not require businesses to buy more hardware. Instead, the software is in the router, enabling branch offices to use local Internet access capabilities, which will save users time, money and resource that otherwise would go toward hardware deployments.

The software can be delivered via the cloud, while the management is done centrally, they said.

Cisco is aggressively building out its Borderless Networks efforts, which revolve around the idea of getting access to a company’s network anytime, from anywhere and through any device.

Cisco's Struggles Continue: Tech Weekly

REDMOND, Wash. (TheStreet) -- Cisco router (CSCO_) was, once again, the big story of the week after it reported underwhelming third-quarter numbers following market close Wednesday. Despite beating earnings estimates, Cisco delivered a weak outlook for a third consecutive quarter, and saw its shares tank.

Cisco also provided additional details of its restructuring plan on its conference call.ws-c2960-24pc-l The company said it plans to implement a headcount reduction this summer and that it's targeting $1 billion in cost reductions by the end of fiscal year 2012.

The tech giant's switch sales were down 9% year over year, as rivals such as HP(HPQ_) and Juniper(JNPR_) increasingly target its customers. vs-c6509ve-s72010g

The public sector also remains a major area of weakness for Cisco, although the company's routing and services businesses were robust.

Cisco is taking its long-term growth rate target of 12% to 17% off the table, according to CEO John Chambers, who warned that the company needs to become much more agile. "We have to move faster," vs-c6509e-s720-10g he said. "It's my responsibility, the buck stops here -- I get it."