Investment Protection and Versatility
The Cisco 3800 Series provides significant
additional value compared to prior generations
of Cisco routers at similar price points by
offering up to three times the performance,
new embedded service options, and dramati-
cally increased slot performance and density
while maintaining support for most of the more
than 90 existing modules that are available
today for the Cisco 3600 Series and Cisco
3700 Series. This helps to ensure 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, Cisco 3800
Series integrated services routers dramatically
reduce the cost and complexity of managing
remote networks. The Cisco 3800 Series delivers
multiple concurrent services at wire-speed
performance of up to T3/E3 speeds. The Cisco
3845 features a removable motherboard,
fan assembly, and supports high-availability
features such as online insertion and removal
(OIR) of like network modules, and redundant
integrated system and inline power supplies.
Integrated Services
With the optional integration of numerous
services modules, the Cisco 3800 Series offers
the ability to easily integrate the functions of
standalone network appliances and components
into the Cisco 3800 Series chassis itself. Many
of these modules, such as the Cisco Network
Analysis Module, Cisco Unity Express™ Voice
Mail Module, Cisco Intrusion Prevention
Module, and Cisco Content Engine Module,
have embedded processors and hard drives
that allow them to run largely independently
of the router while allowing management from
a single management interface. This flexibility
greatly expands the potential applications of the
Cisco 3800 Series beyond traditional routing,
while maintaining the benefits of integration.
The Cisco 3845 Integrated Services Router is
optimized for the concurrent delivery of voice,
video, and data at T3 wire-rate performance.
The architecture provides high-performance
embedded security and voice processing for
reliable delivery of mission-critical traffic such
as VoIP, business video, and collaborative
communications.
The Cisco 3845 is engineered to help customers
effectively scale deployment of services, offering
the following hardware features:
• Two built-in autosensing 10/100/1000 ports
• One small form-factor pluggable (SFP) slot
• Two built-in USB ports
• Four network module slots for single-wide or
extended network modules, two double-wide
or extended double-wide network modules
(NME-XD), or two extension voice/fax
modules (EVM-HD)
• Four single-wide or two double-wide HWICs
• Two advanced integration modules (AIMs)
• Four Packet Voice DSP Modules (PVDM) slots
for voice processing
• Onboard IP Security (IPsec) acceleration
• 802.3af-compliant inline power for IP phones
or wireless access points
The Cisco 3825 is engineered to help customers
effectively scale deployment of services, offering
the following hardware features:
• Two built-in autosensing 10/100/1000 ports
• One SFP slot
• Two built-in USB ports
• Two network module slots for single-wide or
extended network modules, one double-wide
or extended double-wide network module
(NME-XD), or one extension voice/fax module
(EVM-HD)
• Four single-wide or two double-wide HWICs
• Two AIMs
• Four PVDM slots for voice processing
• Onboard IPsec encryption acceleration
• 802.3af-compliant inline power for IP phones
or wireless access points
• External redundant power supply (RPS) for
system power and external redundant inline
power for IP phones
Secure Networking
Integrated on the motherboard of every
Cisco 3800 Series router is hardware-based
encryption acceleration that offloads the
encryption processes to provide greater IPsec
throughput with less overhead for the router
CPU when compared with software-based
solutions. The integration of optional VPN
modules (for enhanced performance and tunnel
count), content-engine network modules for
URL filtering, or intrusion prevention network
modules, combined with the rich Cisco IOS
Software security feature set that includes
firewall, network access control (NAC), voice-
and video-enabled VPN (V3PN), intrusion
prevention, and Dynamic Multipoint VPN
(DMVPN), Cisco offers the industry’s most robust
and adaptable security solution for branch office
routers.
IP Telephony
The Cisco 3800 Series allows network managers
to provide scalable analog and digital telephony
without investing in a one-time solution, giving
enterprises greater control of their converged
telephony needs. Using voice and fax modules,
the Cisco 3800 Series can be deployed for appli-
cations ranging from VoIP and voice-over-Frame
Relay (VoFR) transport to robust, centralized
solutions using the Cisco Survivable Remote
Site Telephony (SRST) solution or distributed
call processing using Cisco CallManager Express
(CCME). The architecture is highly scalable with
the ability to support up to 24 T1/E1s trunks,
88 foreign-exchange-station (FXS) ports, or 56
foreign-exchange-office (FXO) ports concurrent
with data routing and other services.
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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 • Data Encryption Standard (DES), Triple DES (3DES), and Advanced Encryption
Standard (AES) 128, 192, and 256 cryptology support
• Embedded hardware-based VPN acceleration on the motherboard
• Support for optional higher-performance AIM-based security acceleration
with Layer 3 compression
• Support for up to 2,500 tunnels with AIM-VPN
• Cisco Easy VPN remote and server support
• DMVPN
Multiprotocol Label Switching • Specific provider edge capabilities
(MPLS) VPN Support • Virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) firewall and VRF IPsec
Onboard USB 1.1 port(s) • Future support for secure token and Flash memory
Intrusion Prevention • More than 700 IPS signatures supported in Cisco IOS Software,
System (IPS) with the ability to load and enable selected IPS signatures
• More than 1000 IPS signatures with optional high-performance IDS Network Module
URL Filtering • Onboard with an optional content-engine network module
• Local URL filtering in Cisco IOS Software based on external server
Cisco Router and Security • Comes standard on all Cisco 3800 Series routers
Device Manager (SDM)