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Cisco 1800 Series

BENEFITS & ADVANTAGES continued

most comprehensive security services embedded within the router that can be enabled with a Cisco IOS Security Image.This provides customers with a single, resilient platform to rapidly deploy secure networks and applica- tions.The Cisco 1800 Series was designed with integrated security to provide a tight coupling among security, routing, and other integrated services throughout the network. With a Cisco IOS Software-based VPN, firewall, and intrusion prevention system (IPS), as well as optional enhanced VPN acceleration, and network admission control (NAC) support for anti-virus defense, the Cisco 1841 offers a robust and adaptable security solution for branch-office routers. Every Cisco 1800 Series router comes with the factory-installed Cisco Router and Security Device Manager (SDM). Cisco SDM is an intuitive, Web-based device manager that offers easy router configuration and monitoring, startup wizards for quick deployment and lock- down, smart wizards to help enable security

and routing features, CiscoTechnical Assistance Center (TAC)-approved router configurations, and subject-related educational content.

Integrated Services

By providing integrated services, as well as great modular density and high performance, the Cisco 1841 router provides security, versatility, scalability, and flexibility for multiple applications to the small-to-medium-sized business, small enterprise branch office, and the service provider customer edge.The Cisco 1841 router easily accommodates several network applications, such as secure branch-office data access (including NAC for antivirus defense), VPN access and firewall protection, business- class DSL, IPS support, inter-VLAN routing, and serial device concentration.The Cisco 1841 router provides customers with the industry’s most flexible, secure, and adaptable infra- structure to meet both today’s and tomorrow’s business requirements for maximum investment protection.

Cisco 1800 Series

SECURITY EXAMPLE

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Branch office Network Admission Control (NAC) helps ensure that every endpoint complies with network security policies before being granted access, protecting the network from viruses and worms.

WHEN TO DEPLOY

SECURITY FEATURES

Cisco IOS Software Firewall

•Stateful, application-based filtering (context-based access control)

•Per-user authentication and authorization

•Real-time alerts

•Transparent firewall

•IPv6 firewall

VPN

Deploy the Cisco 1800 Series when you need:

•Performance and densities for concurrent data and security services up to oneT1/E1/xDSL WAN connectivity rates

•The flexibility to add or change WAN services to support changing needs and applications, including serial T1, E1, ISDN and broadband DSL, etc.

•VPN connections, or plan to migrate to them over time

•Low density (up to eight ports) of integrated 10/100 switching

•Integrated security services as part of the Cisco Self-Defending Network, which enable network device protection, threat defense, secure connectivity, and endpoint protection and control

•Advanced management for security, routing, quality of service (QoS), and switching services with Cisco SDM Version 2.0

Onboard USB 1.1 port

•Future support for secure token and Flash memory

IPS

•More than 700 IPS signatures supported in Cisco IOS Software, with the ability to load and enable selected IPS signatures

URL filtering

•Local URL filtering in Cisco IOS Software based on external server

Cisco SDM

•Cisco Router and Security Device Manager (SDM)

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PLATFORM OVERVIEW

*NME = Enhanced Network Module; EVM = Extension Voice Module; PVDM = Packet Voice/Digital Signal Processor Module

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