Cisco Systems expands its integrated services router portfolio

Our Corporate Bureau
09 May 2005

Mumbai: Cisco Systems today announced new wireless-enabled integrated services routers, delivering highly secure concurrent services for broadband access to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), enterprise small offices and tele-workers.

These will enable Cisco to offer new services including wireless local area network, advanced security and management for the entire Cisco integrated services router portfolio.

The routers supports built-in or modular wireless 802.11 LAN coverage with industry-leading security. They are available as wireless models and wireless interface cards are available for the Cisco modular integrated services routers like the Cisco 1841, Cisco 2800 series and Cisco 3800 series.

Integrating high performance wireless into the routers provides customers maximum business agility in an easy-to-set-up and deploy form factor.

These routers are also part of the ''Cisco self-defending network'' security strategy and offer the industry''s most comprehensive portfolio of embedded network-security services. Cisco integrated service routers are able to deliver adaptive threat defence with advances in application security, anti-x protection, and network containment and control. This provides customers with a single, resilient platform to rapidly deploy highly secure networked business applications.

According to Ranajoy Punja, vice president, marketing, Cisco Systems, India and Saarc, "Enterprises today, medium or small are looking for a one box approach to networking giving them the flexibility of scale, simplicity of ease of use and manageability and the benefit of a converged network. Cisco introduced the first family of integrated services routers in September 2004 and the introduction of the enhanced integrated services router marks Cisco''s continued commitment to provide customers a router portfolio engineered for highly secure, wire-speed delivery of concurrent data, voice and video services."