General Information

Manufacturer

Cisco

Manufacturer Part Number

CISCO1941/K9

Product Name

Integrated 1941 Series Services Router with 2 onboard GE, 2 EHWIC slots, 1 ISM slot, 256MB CF default, 512MB DRAM default and IP Base

UPC Code

882658278174

Overview

• IP Base: This technology package is available as default
• Security (SEC) or Security with No Payload Encryption (SEC-NPE)
• AppX: This license includes the DATA license feature set, Application Visibility and Control (AVC), and Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS).

Key Branch Office Services
The Cisco Integrated Services Routers are industry-leading routers that offer unprecedented levels of services integration. Designed to meet the requirements of the branch office, these platforms provide a complete solution with voice, security, mobility, and data services. Businesses enjoy the benefit by deploying a single device that meets all their needs and save 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 Cisco' SAFE architectural framework that allows organizations to identify, prevent, and adapt to network security threats - the Cisco 1900 Series Integrated Services Routers 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 1941 Series 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 Integrated Services Routers offer a comprehensive and adaptable security solution for branch-office routers that include features such as:

• Secure connectivity: Secure collaborative communications with Group Encrypted Transport VPN (GETVPN), 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, IOS IPS, IOS Content Filtering and Flexible Packet Matching (FPM).
• Identity Management: Intelligently protecting endpoints using technologies such as authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) and public key infrastructure (PKI).

Wireless LAN
The Cisco Integrated Services Routers supporting the Cisco Unified Wireless Network enable deployment of secure, manageable WLANs optimized for remote sites and branch offices, including fast secure mobility, survivable authentication, and simplified management. The Cisco Unified Wireless Network addresses critical points of potential failure and helps enable resiliency and survivability for WLANs at remote locations and branch offices. This solution protects the WLAN by providing fast recovery from a variety of faults that may occur. With Cisco's high availability for remote WLANs, hardware and software work together to enable rapid recovery from disruptions and help ensure fault transparency to users and network applications.

The new Cisco 1941W with IEEE 802.11n integrated access point support both unified and autonomous deployments. This integrated Wi-Fi access point offers IEEE 802.11n draft 2.0 standard support for mobile access to high-bandwidth data, voice, and video applications through the use of multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) technology that provides increased throughput, reliability, and predictability. IEEE 802.11n wireless networks create a cohesive working environment by combining the mobility of wireless with the performance of wired networks. Cisco has innovative, next-generation wireless solutions that offer greater performance and extended reach for pervasive wireless connectivity. IEEE 802.11n technology delivers outstanding reliability and up to nine times the throughput of current IEEE 802.11 a/b/g networks. It makes wireless networks an integral part of every type of organization by offering the following benefits:

• Data rates of up to 600 Mbps support more users, devices, and mission-critical, bandwidth-intensive applications.
• New MIMO technology provides predictable WLAN coverage and reliable connectivity.
• Next-generation wireless technology provides superior investment protection to support emerging mobile applications.

These routers help extend corporate networks to secure remote sites while giving users access to the same applications found in corporate offices for both data and voice applications. When users require WLAN access, visibility and control of network security are even more critical at the remote site. The new fixed Cisco Integrated Services Routers meet this need with a single device that combines integrated IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n capabilities with security features such as Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), including authentication with IEEE 802.1X with the Cisco Light Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP) and Protected EAP (PEAP) and encryption with the WPA Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP).

Wireless WAN
Cisco third- and fourth-generation (3G and 4G, respectively) LTE 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 and 4G LTE WAN access. Using high-speed 3G or 4G LTE wireless networks, routers can replace or complement existing landline infrastructure, such as dialup, Frame Relay, and ISDN. Cisco 3G and 4G LTE solutions support 3G and 4G LTE standards High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA), Evolution Data Only/Evolution Data Optimized (EVDO), and 4G LTE, providing you with a true multipath WAN backup and the ability to rapidly deploy primary WAN connectivity.

Integrated LAN Switching
The Cisco 1941 Integrated Services Router Series will support the EHWIC LAN modules when they become available in future. The Cisco 1941 Series support the existing single wide EtherSwitch HWIC and the double wide HWIC-D modules, which greatly expand the router’s capabilities by integrating industry leading Layer 2 or Layer 3 switching.

Application Services
As organizations continue to centralize and consolidate their branch IT infrastructure in an effort to reduce cost and complexity in the branch office, they are challenged to provide adequate user experience, ensure continuous service availability, and deliver business-relevant applications when and where they are needed. To address these challenges, the Cisco 1941 Series provides the ability to host Cisco, 3rdparty, and custom applications on Cisco Services Ready Engine (SRE) module that seamlessly integrate into the router. The module has its own processor, network interface, and memory that operate independently of the host router resources, helping to ensure maximum concurrent routing and application performance while reducing physical space requirements, lowering power consumption, and consolidating management.

Cisco Services Ready Engine
The Cisco Services Ready Engine solution is available in a Internal Service Module (ISM) form-factor. The Internal Service Module hardware offers up to a seven times performance improvement over the previous-generation Advanced Integration Modules and provides a x86 processor. The Cisco SRE module enables on-demand provisioning of branch-office applications on the Cisco 1900 Series platforms so that you can deploy the right application, at the right time, in the right place. The hardware and software decoupling provided by the service-ready deployment model enables applications to be provisioned on the module at the time of its installation or remotely anytime thereafter. Supported solutions include Cisco Application Extension Platform (AXP), Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC), and other applications under development. The Service Ready Engine enables organizations of various sizes to future-proof their network by allowing them to quickly deploy new branch-office applications without deploying new hardware, reducing the cost of rolling out branch-office services.

WAAS Express
Organizations today face several unique wide area network (WAN) challenges: the need to provide employees with constant access to centrally located information, the requirement to continuously back up and replicate mission-critical data to centrally managed data centers, the desire to provide satisfactory experience for IP phone and video communication, and the mandate to control bandwidth costs without sacrificing application availability and performance.

Cisco WAAS Express is designed to help organizations address these challenges. Cisco WAAS Express extends the Cisco WAAS product portfolio, with a small-footprint, cost-effective Cisco IOS Software-based software solution integrated into the ISR G2 to offer bandwidth optimization and application acceleration capabilities. Cisco WAAS Express increases remote user productivity, reduces WAN bandwidth costs, and offers investment protection by interoperating with existing Cisco WAAS infrastructure. Cisco WAAS Express is unique in providing network transparency, improving deployment flexibility with on-demand service enablement, and integrating with native Cisco IOS Software-based services such as security, Netflow, and QoS.

Cisco WAAS Express is fully interoperable with WAAS on SM-SRE modules, WAAS appliances and can be managed by a common WAAS Central Manager.

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 Integrated Services Router 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 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 IPSLA, EEM, Netflow, allow you to know what's going on in your network at all times. These features along with SNMP and SYSLOG support enable your organization’s management applications.

Features

• Service integration
  • The Cisco 1921 offers increased levels of services integration with data, security, wireless, and mobility services, enabling greater efficiencies and cost savings.
• Services on demand
  • A single Cisco IOS Software Universal image is installed on each ISR G2. The Universal image contains all of the Cisco IOS Software technology sets that can be activated with a software license, allowing your business to quickly deploy advanced features without downloading a new Cisco IOS Software image. Additionally, larger default memory is included to support the new capabilities.
  • The Cisco Services Ready Engine (SRE) enables a new operational model which allows you to reduce capital expenditures (CapEx) and deploy a variety of application services as needed on a single integrated compute services module.
• High performance with integrated services
  • The Cisco 1900 Series enables deployment in high-speed WAN environments with concurrent services enabled up to 25 Mbps.
  • Multi-Gigabit Fabric enables high bandwidth module to module communication without compromising routing performance.
• Network agility
  • Designed to address customer business requirements, the Cisco 1941 with the modular architecture offers a performance range of modular interfaces and services as your network needs grow.
  • Modular interfaces offer increased bandwidth, a diversity of connection options, and network resiliency.
• Energy efficiency
  • The Cisco 1941 architecture provides energy-savings features that include the following:
    • The Cisco 1900 Series offers intelligent power management and allows you to control power to the modules based on the time of day. Cisco EnergyWise technology will be supported in the future.
    • Services integration and modularity on a single platform performing multiple functions optimizes raw-materials consumption and energy usage.
    • Platform flexibility and ongoing development of both hardware and software capabilities lead to a longer product lifecycle, lowering all aspects of the TCO, including materials and energy use.
    • High-efficiency power supplies are provided with each platform.
• Investment protection
  • The Cisco 1941 maximizes investment protection:
    • Reuse of a broad array of existing modules supported on the original Integrated Services Routers provides a lower cost of ownership.
    • Rich set of Cisco IOS Software features carried forward from the original Integrated Services Routers and delivered in the universal image.
    • Flexibility to grow as your business needs evolve.

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