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Cisco 2800 Series Integrated Services Routers
Cisco Systems
®
, Inc. is redefining best-in-class enterprise and small- to- midsize business routing with a
new line of integrated services routers that are optimized for the secure, wire-speed delivery of concurrent
data, voice, video, and wireless services. Founded on 20 years of leadership and innovation, the Cisco
®
2800 Series of integrated services routers (refer to Figure 1) intelligently embed data, security, voice, and
wireless services into a single, resilient system for fast, scalable delivery of mission-critical business
applications. The unique integrated systems architecture of the Cisco 2800 Series delivers maximum
business agility and investment protection.
Figure 1. Cisco 2800 Series
Product Overview
The Cisco 2800 Series comprises four platforms (refer to Figure 1): the Cisco 2801, the Cisco 2811, the Cisco 2821,
and the Cisco 2851. The Cisco 2800 Series provides significant additional value compared to prior generations of
Cisco routers at similar price points by offering up to a fivefold performance improvement, up to a tenfold increase in
security and voice performance, embedded service options, and dramatically increased slot performance and
density while maintaining support for most of the more than 90 existing modules that are available today for
the Cisco 1700, Cisco 2600, and Cisco 3700 Series.
The Cisco 2800 Series features the ability to deliver multiple high-quality simultaneous services
at wire speed up to multiple T1/E1/xDSL connections. The routers offer embedded encryption acceleration and on
the motherboard voice digital-signal-processor (DSP) slots; intrusion prevention system (IPS) and firewall functions;
optional integrated call processing and voice mail support; high-density interfaces for a wide range of wired and
wireless connectivity requirements; and sufficient performance and slot density for future network expansion
requirements and advanced applications.

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