Cisco 3800 Series Integrated Service Routers

The integrated services routing
architecture of the Cisco 3800 product family builds on
the powerful Cisco 3700 Series Multiservice Access
Routers and adds embedded security processing,
significant performance and memory enhancements, and new
high-density interfaces that deliver the performance,
availability, and reliability required for scaling
mission-critical business applications in the most
demanding enterprise environments.
Cisco
3800 Integrated Services Routers support the bandwidth
requirements for multiple Fast Ethernet interfaces per
slot, time-division multiplexing (TDM) interconnections,
and fully integrated power distribution to modules
supporting 802.3af Power over Ethernet (PoE), while
still supporting the existing portfolio of modular
interfaces. This helps to ensure the delivery of
continued investment protection to account for network
expansion or changes in technology as new services and
applications are deployed.
Cisco 3800 Series Integrated Services Router
Cisco EtherSwitch 4- and 9-Port High-Speed WAN Interface
Cards
Security Features on Cisco 1800, 2800 and 3800
Integrated Services Routers
The
integrated services routing architecture of the Cisco
3800 Series builds on the powerful Cisco 3700 Series
routers designed to embed and integrate security and
voice processing with advanced services for rapid
deployment of new applications, including application
layer functions, intelligent network services, and
converged communications. The Cisco 3800 Series supports
the bandwidth requirements for multiple Fast Ethernet
interfaces per slot, time-division multiplexing (TDM)
interconnections, and fully integrated power
distribution to modules supporting 802.3af Power over
Ethernet (PoE), while still supporting the existing
portfolio of modular interfaces. This ensures continuing
investment protection to accommodate network expansion
or changes in technology as new services and
applications are deployed. By integrating the functions
of multiple separate devices into a single compact unit,
the Cisco 3800 Series dramatically reduces the cost and
complexity of managing remote networks.
New
models include the Cisco 3825 and the Cisco 3845,
available with three optional configurations for AC
power, AC power with integrated inline power support,
and DC power.
SECURE
NETWORK CONNECTIVITY FOR DATA, VOICE, AND VIDEO
An
important component of the Cisco Self-Defending Network,
the Cisco 3800 Series features the industry's most
comprehensive security services embedded and integrated
within the router, providing customers with a single,
resilient platform to rapidly deploy secure networks and
applications.
Cisco
Integrated Services Router provide advanced security
services and management capabilities such as built-in
hardware encryption acceleration, IPSec, VPN (Advanced
Encryption Standard [AES], Triple Digital Encryption
Standard [3DES], DES and Multiprotocol Label Switching
[MPLS]), stateful firewall protection, dynamic intrusion
prevention (Intrusion Prevention System [IPS]), and URL
filtering support. Cisco IOS security feature sets
enable all of these rich security features, as well as
applications such as Network Admission Control (NAC),
Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN), and Voice and Video
Enabled VPN (V3PN).
For
ease of management and configuration, the 3800 Series
also features the intuitive, Web-based Cisco Router and
Security Device Manager (SDM). For secure services
management, every Cisco integrated services router
supports Secure Shell Protocol Version 2 (SSHv2) and
Simple Network Management Protocol Version 3 (SNMPv3)
protocols to encrypt the management session.
Figure 2.
Secure Network connectivity with converged IP
Communications

CONVERGED IP
COMMUNICATIONS
As
shown in Figure 2, the Cisco 3800 Series meets the IP
Communications needs of midsize to large enterprise
branch offices, while delivering industry-leading
security within a single routing platform. By embedding
voice services inside the router, Cisco provides
customers with maximum deployment flexibility, plus
higher densities for stations, trunks, and conferencing.
The
Cisco 3800 Series routers offer the award-winning Cisco
IP Telephony solution, Cisco CallManager Express (CME),
as an optional feature set embedded within Cisco IOS®
Software. This solution is ideal for customers who want
to decrease costs and complexity by converging voice and
data networks. By adding a Cisco Unity™ Express advanced
integration module (AIM) or network module to
this solution, small offices and branch offices can take
advantage of a complete, all-in-one data,
voice-processing, voice-mail, and auto-attendant system.
For larger, centralized IP Communications deployments,
customers can deploy Survivable Remote Site Telephony
(SRST) in their Cisco 3800 Series routers with a central
Cisco CallManager for highly scalable, highly available
enterprise IP Communications. SRST is an important
component of the Cisco end-to-end IP telephony offering,
providing feature-rich call-processing redundancy, while
taking advantage of the existing infrastructure at the
branch office.
Cisco
3800 Series routers also feature the widest range of
voice-gateway interfaces, scaling to meet the needs of
the smallest to largest branch requirements for voice
termination densities using a combination of network
modules, extension voice modules (EVMs), voice interface
cards (VICs), voice/WAN interface cards (VWICs), and
onboard packet voice DSP modules (PVDMs). Customers have
unprecedented scalability for supporting up to 24 T1/E1
trunks and 88 foreign-exchange-station (FXS) ports for
analog phones, fax machines, key systems, and conference
stations.
INTEGRATED
SERVICES
Figure 2 also highlights the fact that with the unique
integrated services architecture of the Cisco 3800
Series, customers can now securely deploy IP
Communications with traditional IP routing and still
leave the network-module slots available for additional
advanced services. With the optional integration of a
wide array of services modules, the Cisco 3800 offers
the ability to easily integrate the functions of
standalone network appliances and components into the
Cisco 3800 Series chassis itself. Many of these network
modules, such as the Cisco Network Analysis, Cisco
Intrusion Detection System, and Cisco Content Engine
network modules, have embedded processors and hard
drives that allow them to run largely independently of
the router, while allowing their management from a
single management interface. This flexibility greatly
expands the potential applications of the Cisco 3800
Series beyond traditional routing while still maintain
the benefits of integration: ease of management, lower
solution costs, and increased speed of deployment.
PRIMARY
FEATURES AND BENEFITS
The global economy is
increasingly reliant on networked enterprise
applications and the Internet as indispensable tools for
tackling urgent business challenges. Successful
companies require secure, high-performance networks that
can quickly adapt to support volatile business
conditions, while helping boost competitive advantage
and increase network efficiencies. They must invest in
network infrastructure that uses essential technologies
and easily enables improved models of communication
without disruption to core business functions. The Cisco
3800 Series helps companies operate securely in a
networked economy and easily implement network services
that will improve their business without impacting
existing operations or degrading network performance.
Table 1 gives the features and
benefits of the Cisco 3800 Series.
Table 1.
Features and Benefits of Cisco 3800 Series
| Feature |
Benefit |
| Architecture
Optimized for Services Growth |
- This high-performance architecture is
optimized for concurrent service deployment.
- This architecture offers increased
default and maximum memory for future
services growth.
- PVDM slots accommodate
digital-signal-processor (DSP) modules for
packet voice processing.
- Enhanced chassis interfaces help enable
unprecedented performance and service
densities.
- Advanced service interfaces integrate
applications directly into the router,
without the need for separate appliances :
- Network analysis module
(NAM)-Integrated traffic monitoring
helps enable application level
visibility into network traffic for
remote troubleshooting and traffic
analysis.
- Cisco Intrusion Detection System
(IDS) Module-The Cisco IDS Module
provides the ability to inspect all
traffic traversing router interfaces; to
identify unauthorized or malicious
activity such as hacker attacks, worms,
or denial-of-service attacks; and to
terminate illegitimate traffic to
suppress or contain threats.
- The Cisco Content Engine Network
Module delivers application layer
services including Web application
acceleration, business video streaming,
software distribution, and URL
filtering.
|
|
| Embedded
Security Processing and Best-in-Class Security
Feature Support |
- Integrated hardware for offload of
encryption services processing supports
IPSec DES, 3DES, and AES 128, AES 192, and
AES 256 encryption modes without the need
for separate modules.
- Cisco IOS Software features offer
support for identifying, preventing, and
adapting to security threats and maintaining
a self-defending network, including Cisco
SDM 2.0, Network Admission Control, Dynamic
Multipoint VPN, dynamic IPS, Cisco IOS
Software Firewall, and URL filtering
capabilities.
|
|
| Ideal Platform
for Integrated IP Telephony |
- Onboard DSPs-Integrated PVDMs support
analog voice, digital voice, conferencing,
transcoding, and secure Real-Time Transport
Protocol (SRTP) media while enabling
network-module or AIM slots for switching,
concurrent applications, content, and voice
mail. The DSPs help enable packet voice
technologies, including VoIP protocols such
as H.323, Media Gateway Control Protocol
(MGCP), and Session Initiation Protocol
(SIP); voice over Frame Relay; and voice
over ATM (including ATM Adaption Layer 5
(AAL5) and AAL2 adaptation layers).
- The platform offers scalability for
centralized and distributed call processing
:
- SRST with centralized Cisco
CallManager -Up to 720 phones
- Cisco Unity Express (CUE) voice
mail-Up to 100 mail boxes
- Cisco CallManager Express IP
phones-From 24 to 240 IP phones
- Small to large branch
connectivity-Up to 24 T1/E1 trunks
- Analog phones, fax machines, key
systems, and conference stations-Up to
88 FXS ports
- Local or long-distance calling with
the EVM module-Up to 48 foreign exchange
office (FXO) or 32 Basic Rate Interface
(BRI) ports
- Local or long-distance calling with
the EVM module-Up to 48 foreign exchange
office (FXO) or 32 Basic Rate Interface
(BRI) ports
- Cisco IOS Software delivers customized
features and applications, such as Tool
Command Language (TCL) and Voice Extensible
Markup Language (VXML) support
- Secure calls are possible with Cisco
CallManager and Cisco IP phones using the
Cisco 3800 :
- Offers standards-based, secure media
and signaling authentication and
encryption from IP phone to IP phone,
IP phone to analog phone or public
switched telephone network (PSTN)
gateway using IPSec, transport layer
security (TLS), and Secure Real Time
Protocol (SRTP)
- Maintains channel capacity for
medium- and high-complexity codecs
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|
| Investment
Protection |
- Field-upgradable, modular components are
supported on the Cisco 3800 Series, allowing
customers to easily change network
interfaces without upgrading their entire
branch-office network. The Cisco 3800 Series
takes advantage of the existing portfolio of
WICs, VICs, network modules and AIMs to
reduce sparing, training, configuration,
installation, and maintenance costs.
|
|
| Availability |
- The Cisco 3800 Series minimizes downtime
with availability features, including
optional redundant power, Error Checking and
Correction (ECC) memory for improved fault
isolation and correction, USB Flash memory
for ease of image recovery, advanced
temperature monitoring and variable-speed
cooling fans, Cisco IOS Software Warm Reboot
for improved bootup times, network-module
online insertion and removal, and
field-replaceable components such as fan
tray, motherboard, and power supplies (Cisco
3845 only).
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PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE
Table 2. Features of Cisco
3825 and Cisco 3845
| Cisco 3800 Series Features |
Cisco 3825 |
Cisco 3845 |
| Network-module
slots-These slots can accommodate a standard
network-module, enhanced-network-module (NME),
enhanced-extended-network-module (NME-X), and
high-density extension module (EVM-HD). The
NME-X, when available, will have a wider form
factor than the NME. Two side-by-side NME slots
can be combined to accommodate one double-wide
network module (NMD) or when available, a
double-wide enhanced extended network module
(NME-XD). |
NM
NME
NME-X
NMD
NME-XD
EVM-HD |
NM
NME
NME-X
NMD
NME-XD
EVM-HD |
|
| Maximum number
of network modules, NMEs, and NME-Xs supported |
2 |
4 |
|
| Maximum number
of NMD/NME-XDs supported |
1 |
2 |
|
| Maximum number
of EVM-HDs supported |
1 |
2 |
|
| Number of
high-speed WIC (HWIC) slots-These HWIC slots
also support VICs, VWICs, and WICs. |
4 |
4 |
|
| Number of
fixed LAN ports (fixed RJ-45 port for
10/100/1000 connectivity) |
2 Gigabit
Ethernet
(10/100/1000) |
2 Gigabit
Ethernet
(10/100/1000) |
|
| Number of
fixed Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) ports
(for SFP Gigabit Ethernet connectivity) |
1 |
1 |
|
| Number of AIM
slots (for optional AIMs for offloading
compute-intensive features) |
2 |
2 |
|
| Number of PVDM
slots (for optional PVDM2s) |
4 |
4 |
|
| Number of USB
1.1 ports (for future use with USB Flash memory,
security tokens for secure Cisco IOS Software
configuration distribution, and off-platform
storage of VPN credentials) |
2 |
2 |
|
| Embedded VPN
(hardware-based VPN encryption acceleration) |
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Number of
console ports (up to 115.2 kbps) |
1 |
1 |
|
| Number of
auxiliary ports (up to 115.2 kbps) |
1 |
1 |
|
|
Memory-External Compact Flash and internal DDR
(Double Data Rate) SDRAM with ECC |
Default-64 MB Compact Flash; 256 MB DDR SDRAM
Maximum-256 MB Compact Flash; 1 GB DDR SDRAM
|
Default-64
MB Compact Flash; 256 MB DDR SDRAM
Maximum-256 MB Compact Flash; 1 GB DDR SDRAM |
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