Business need

Features/description

Lightweight, compact size with low power consumption

●Can be deployed in many different environments where space, heat dissipation, and low power consumption are critical factors.

High performance to run concurrent services

●High performance allows customers to take advantage of broadband network speeds while running secure, concurrent data, voice, video, and wireless services.

High availability and business continuity

● Redundant WAN connections for failover protection and load balancing.

● Dynamic failover protocols such as Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP; RFC 2338), Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP), and Multigroup HSRP (MHSRP).

Consistent, high application performance levels

● The router can run multiple services simultaneously with minimal performance degradation.

Risk mitigation with multilevel security

● Network perimeter security with integrated application inspection firewall.

● Data privacy through high-speed IP Security (IPsec) Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES), and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption.

● High-performance VPNs: DMVPN, FlexVPN, GET VPN, EzVPN

● Cisco Umbrella™ security architecture to provide content filtering via category-based URL classification and blocking, thus helping increase productivity and providing better use of company resources.

● Enforced security policy with OpenDNS.

● Security hardware acceleration.

● Trustworthy systems with Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and hardware anchor.

● Encrypted traffic analytics maintain integrity of encrypted flow

Unified control of wired and wireless networks from a common console for streamlined operations

● Simplifies and centralizes configuration and management of wireless and wireline devices. Supports WLAN services without requiring a wireless LAN controller.

● Supports Mobility Express for WLAN-enabled routers.

Remote configuration and management to keep local IT staff lean

● Supports separate console/auxiliary and USB ports.

● Can be configured to work with optional USB token.

● Supports TR-069.

Performance

● Throughput

● Service reliability

● Crypto performance up to 250 Mbps for 1100-8P and 150 Mbps for 1100-4P.

● A distributed multicore architecture with the industry’s first internal services plane.

● Remote installation of application-aware services that run identically to their counterparts in dedicated appliances.

Lower WAN expenditures

● Cisco Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) (over the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module [APIC-EM]) support for optimized WAN connection.

Pay as you grow: IPsec performance upgrade model

● Router IPsec capacity can be increased with a remote performance-on-demand license upgrade (no hardware upgrade) for exceptional savings andCapEx budget management.

IT consolidation, space savings, and improved Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

● Single converged branch platform integrates routing, switching, security, and performance management capabilities.

Business continuity and increased resiliency

● The entire 1100 Series supports Power over Ethernet (PoE) and PoE+ power to endpoints.