The latest isr 4000 model comparison by Router Switch

The Latest ISR 4000 Model Comparison ***The “Always On” Cisco ISR 4000 Will Replace the Popular Cisco 1900, 2900, and 3900 Series The Cisco is deciding to stop the ISR G2. Cisco Integrated Services Routers Generation 2 will be end-of-sale and end-of-life in Dec 2017. Yes, the Cisco ISR G2 will be replaced by the more powerful Cisco ISR 4000 Series. Why do the Cisco users migrate to ISR 4000 series? Cisco has already listed the main benefits while migrating to Cisco ISR 4000 Series:

When you need “always on” branch services, please consider the new 4000 Series ISR! Ideal for small, medium and large branches, the 4000 Series delivers critical branch network services, industry leading security, and multiple levels of redundancy, including Verizon XLTE, for “always on” business continuity. Fueled by Cisco IOS-XE for up to 2Gbps performance with Advanced Network Services enabled, the 4000 Series provides industry-leading network, security, compute, and storage services to help you meet every day network challenges, and extend new hybrid WAN architectures and cloud services across remote sites.

In addition to industry leading functionality, the 4000 Series offers a new Verizon Wireless 4G XLTE Module, Application Centric Services, and programmability to maximize utility and deployment flexibility.

 Enhanced Redundancy w. 4G XLTE NIM Do you need enhanced business continuity? Business continuity and increased resiliency are standard in the ISR 4k. Here are a few examples: 

Resilient multi-core CPU architecture using separate control and data services planes.

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Dual integrated power supplies (4451 and 4431 ISRs), and optional power supply for additional PoE power.

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Modular interfaces with online removal and insertion (OIR) for module upgrades without network disruption.

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Modular network interfaces for load-balancing and diverse connection options (T1/E1, T3/E3, Serial, xDSL, Gigabit and Ten-Gigabit Ethernet) for network resiliency.

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For more information on features and capabilities of the ISR 4k family, please review the data sheet here.

Adding to the line of modular Network Interface Modules (NIM) and diverse connection options, the 4000 Series can now be equipped with the Verizon Wireless XLTE NIM to help improve business continuity.

 Extensibility for New Services Is your network in transition? Meeting application performance expectations has become more complex with the transition to IWAN, cloud, virtualization and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) environments. Traditional challenges with network congestion and latency are amplified. For example, as more web-based applications are deployed or run over shared infrastructure, visibility for capacity planning and troubleshooting becomes obscured. In addition, bandwidth demanding applications such as virtual desktops and latency-sensitive applications such as video can have poor performance with a centralized deployment model. Cisco AX delivers application-centric networking by integrating essential application aware services and infrastructure tools into the router, in a payas-you-grow model enabling you to overcome these challenges. Learn more about the pay-as-you-grow AX services and licensing model.

Another option to gain needed service extensibility is to purchase Cisco One Software with your ISR 4000 routers. Cisco One features “better together” pricing, reduced complexity, simplified buying and the peace of mind that today’s software investments can be utilized on hardware platforms purchased in the future. Cisco One software offers expense predictability throughout the lifecycle of the underlying hardware. More information about Cisco One for WAN can be found here. For more on how these new services are delivered in the ISR 4K, view the videos: ISR 4300 & ISR 4400 Video Data Sheets located here.

 Deploying and managing new applications with the ISR 4k API Are you prepared for the unknown? Do you know all the services your users and network will demand in the future? Most don’t. For needed extensibility to support today’s services, and for services you may not even know you will need, the 4000 Series offers Cisco IOS Embedded Event Manager (EEM). EEM is a unique subsystem within Cisco IOS Software that allows customers to harness the significant intelligence within Cisco IOS Software to respond to real-time events, automate tasks, create customized commands, and take local automated action based on conditions detected by the Cisco IOS Software. Custom programs or scripts, referred to as EEM policies, can be programmed using a simple Command-Line-Interface (CLI)-based interface or using a scripting language called Tool Command Language (Tcl). Specific to ISR LTE services, several scripts already exist to support ease of provisioning, and platform and mobile management. Existing scripts can be found here. With EEM you take even more control of your environment to customize your user experience, ease your administration and to be prepared for new service demands. More information on EEM, including additional scripts and an ecosystem of partners who can help you create additional scripts can be found here. The Cisco ISR 4000 family has 6 members now. They are ISR 4221(the

newest one), 4321, 4331, 4351, 4431 and 4451 router.

What are the differences among the six models? Cisco also updated the newest model comparison of ISR 4000 series. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s take a look. The Latest ISR 4000 Model Comparison Feature

4221(n ew)

4321

4331

4351

4431

4451

Form factor

1 RU Deskto p

1 RU

2 RU

1 RU

2 RU

Integrated WAN ports

GE / SFP

2 PoE GE / SFP

1 GE

GE/ SFP

2 GE / SFP

SFP Performance

35Mbps

50 Mbps

100 Mbps

200 Mbps

500 Mbps

Gbps

Upgrad able to 75 Mbps

Upgrad able to 100 Mbps

Upgrad able to 300 Mbps

Upgrad able to 400 Mbps

Upgrade able to 1 Gbps

Upgrad able to 2 Gbps

Management port

1 GE (Integrated Out of Band)

Network Interface Modules (NIM)

Enhanced Services

N/A

single-

2 single-

N/A

2 single-

Feature

4221(n ew)

4321

4331

4351

wide

or1 doublewide

(PVDM 4)

Module (SMX)

4431

4451

or doublewide

Integrated Services Card (ISC) slots

N/A

USB ports (type A)

Default/max Flash

8 GB

4 GB / 8 GB

4 GB / 16 GB

8 GB / 32 GB

Default/max DRAM

4 GB

4 GB / 8 GB

4 GB / 16 GB

Power supply type

Externa l: AC

Externa l: AC, PoE

Internal : AC, PoE

Internal : AC, PoE or DC

Internal: AC, PoE or DC

Internal : AC, PoE or DC

Redundant power supply

Yes

Internal RPS

Module online insertion and removal (OIR)

Yes

Feature

4221(n ew)

Server virtualization platform (UCS ESeries) and Network Compute Engine (NCE)

N/A

4321

4-core NCE

4321

4331

4351

2-core singlewide, 2-core NCE

2 core singlewide, 2-core NCE

4-core singlewide, 4-core NCE

4 core singlewide, 4-core NCE

4331

4431

4451

2-core singlewide, 2-core NCE 4-core NCE

4-core singlewide, 4-core NCE

4 core doublewide,

4-core doublewide,

6 core doublewide,

6-core doublewide,

8 core doublewide

8-core doublewide

Advanced Security

4221

4351

4431

4451

Zone-based firewall and NAT services

VRF-Aware Firewall and Network Address Translation (NAT)

Hardware VPN acceleration( DES, 3DES, AES)

Feature

4221(n ew)

4321

4331

4351

4431

4451

IPSEC VPN services

FlexVPN, Easy VPN remote server, Enhanced Easy VPN, Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN), Group Encrypted Transport VPN (GET VPN), V3PN, MPLS VPN

SSL VPN

Intrusion prevention

Yes (Snort for Singnature Based and FirePower as nGIPS)

Anomaly Detection and Machine Learning

Cisco Self Learning Networks (SLN)

Network foundation protection

ACL, FPM, control plan protection, control plane policing (CoPP), QoS, role-based CLI access, source-based RTBH, uRPF, SSHv2

Cisco Umbrella Branch Support

Yes

Cisco Cloud Web Security

Yes

Identitybased networking

Cisco TrustSec

Security Group Tag Exchange Protocol (SXP), SGT over GETVPN

Feature

4221(n ew)

4321

4331

4351

4431

4451

SGT over IPSEC SGT over DMVPN SGT-based ZBFW Port/Layer 3 interface/IP/subnet-to-SGT mapping SGT export in Flexible NetFlow Unified Communic ations

4221

4321

4331

4351

4431

4451

Local conferencing

N/A

Yes

Digital signal processor support

N/A

PVDM4

Cisco Unified Survivable Remote Site

N/A

Up to 50

Up to 100

Up to 750

Up to 1200

Up to 2000

N/A

Up to 50

Up to 100

Up to 250

Up to 350

Up to 450

Telephony support Cisco Unified Communicati ons Manager

Feature

4221(n ew)

4321

4331

4351

4431

4451

N/A

Use Cisco Unity Connec tion on UCSE

Use Cisco Unity Connecti on on UCSE

Use Cisco Unity Connec tion on UCSE

N/A

100

400

1000

3000

6000

N/A

Digital voice and video (T1/E1 channels)

N/A

Up to 240

Up to 360

Up to 720

Up to 1200

Analog/BRI voice

N/A

Up to 8 ports (FXS, FXO, E/M,

Up to 12 ports (FXS, FXO,

Up to 20 ports (FXS, FXO,

Up to 12 ports (FXS, FXO, E/M,

Up to 20 ports (FXS, FXO,

Express support Cisco Unity Express (NM, SM, or ISM) Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) (SIP/H.323 sessions) nano Cisco Unified Border Element (nanoCUBE) (sessions)

Feature

4221(n ew)

4321

4331

4351

4431

4451

BRi)

E/M, BRi)

BRi)

E/M, BRi)

Routing and Multicast

4221

4321

4331

4351

4431

4451

IPv4 routing protocols

RIP v1/v2, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, PBR, PfR

Multicast routing protocols

PIMSM, mroute (static route), and MLD

PIM-SM, mroute (static route), and MLD

PIMSM, mroute (static route), and MLD

IPv6 routing protocols

EIGRP, RIP, OSPFv3 , IS-IS,

EIGRP, RIP, OSPFv3, IS-IS,

EIGRP, RIP, OSPFv3 , IS-IS,

BGP and PBR

Wireless LAN

4221

4321

4331

4351

4431

4451

Integrated

N/A

Feature

4221(n ew)

4321

4331

4351

4431

4451

Integrated 802.11 a/b/g/n access point

N/A

Unified and autonomous mode

N/A

RP-TNC connectors for fieldreplaceable

N/A

Diversity (dual antennas)

N/A

Wireless LAN controller module

N/A

Availabl e on UCS ESeries

Wireless WAN

4221

4321

4331

4351

4431

4451

3G /4G LTE cellular

Yes

802.11 b/g/n access point

optional high-gain antennas

Feature

4221(n ew)

4321

4331

4351

Cat 6 LTE Advanced

Yesâ&#x20AC;

GPS Support

Yes

Indoor Antenna

Yes (Various antenna using 2 x TNC connectors supporting MIMO)

Outdoor antennas

N/A

Integrated Switching

4221

4321

4331

4351

4431

4451

Maximum switched Ethernet ports

2x8

Maximum switched Ethernet LAN ports with PoE

PoE support (wattage)

N/A

120 W

250 W

500 W

250 W

500 W

without PoE boost

PoE support (wattage)

4431

4451

(with optional power supply redundancy) N/A

260 W

500 W

950 W

530 W

990 W

Feature

4221(n ew)

4321

with PoE boost EtherSwitch Service Module type (width)

4331

4351

4431

4451

(no power supply redundancy) N/A

Application Services

N/A

single

2 single or 1 double

N/A

2 single or 1 double

4321

4331

4351

4431

4451

Intelligent Path Control

PfR

Network Contention Control

QoS, HQoS

Application Visibility

NBAR v2

WAN Optimization

N/A

ISRWAAS

ISRWAAS,

ISRWAAS

ISRWAAS,

vWAAS on UCS ESeries

Yes

vWAAS on UCS ESeries

Akamai Connect

N/A

Yes

Cisco Application Centric

Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) with Enterprise Module

Yes

Feature

4221(n ew)

4321

4331

4351

4431

4451

Infrastructur e

â&#x20AC; With CAT6 LTE Advanced theoretical DL speed of 300 Mbps, with 2 NIM slots ISR4221 and ISR4321, customer may need the performance license to maximize CAT6 LTE Advanced theoretical full potential capability with 2 NIM CAT6 LTE Advanced slots depending on specific carrier SP provisioning capability & capacity. Reference from http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/routers/4000-series-integratedservices-routers-isr/models-comparison.html

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Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers Data Sheet http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/4000-seriesintegrated-services-routers-isr/datasheet-c78-732542.html

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