-- Revolutionary tunnel-less virtual private network (VPN) solution based
on a Group Encrypted Transport (GET VPN) technology
-- High-performance services engine
-- Two new services modules that deliver a complete wide-area network
(WAN) optimization and application-acceleration solution
The new features provide greater service breadth and integration to the
existing Cisco ISR portfolio, empowering business branches to integrate
more security, voice, video, wireless and data solutions. Customers can
drive business growth while realizing substantial savings.
Scaling Highly Secure Business Collaboration with Innovative Tunnel-less
VPN Solution
Cisco's market-leading expertise in routing and security has produced GET
VPN. The technology changes the way enterprises and service providers
create VPNs, by eliminating the tradeoff between data-encryption security
and routing intelligence.
According to Neil Rickard, Gartner's vice president of research: "There is
pent-up demand from enterprises for a solution that allows them to encrypt
traffic running over Multiprotocol Label Switching VPNs in order to meet
the pressures of regulatory compliance. Existing tunnel-based encryption
techniques make this difficult to do without sacrificing the quality of
service and meshing capabilities of these services."
Cisco GET VPN offers scalable, highly secure any-to-any connectivity while
using inherent routing capabilities. Customers can use Cisco GET VPN in a
variety of WAN environments, including Multiprotocol Label Switching
(MPLS), without point-to-point tunnels. This capability lowers latency and
improves voice and video application performance for large networks.
Improving Business Applications Through Integrated WAN Optimization and
Monitoring
The new Cisco ISR service modules provide robust WAN optimization and
application acceleration along with high-performance network analysis.
These service modules help enable customers to improve application
performance through eliminating WAN bottlenecks when accessing files and
applications from data centers.
With the increasing distribution of a broad range of data-center-based
applications to remote offices, both IT and end users experience
application performance declines due to WAN latency and other issues. The
integration of Cisco Wide Area Application Acceleration Services (WAAS)
Software into the Cisco ISR helps enable enterprises to increase network
and application performance while optimizing WAN capacity, mitigating the
impact of centralized application and storage resources. Equally
important, the new WAAS capabilities for the Cisco ISR use the same mode of
operation as existing Cisco WAAS appliances, therefore working well with
existing ISR-based services such as quality of service (QoS), firewall
access control lists (ACLs) and NetFlow.
Empowering Branches With Leading Voice and Video Solutions
Cisco enhanced the robust set of voice, video and collaborative features to
the Cisco ISRs that help customers lower costs, highly secure
communications, and increase availability. These new features include
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking capability, consolidated voice,
video and data on a single primary rate interface (PRI), highly secure
Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) and Call Manager Express (CME),
integrated voice XML (VXML), Session Border Controller, and more.
McHenry Savings Bank, a full-service financial institution with five
branches in McHenry County, Ill., continues to invest heavily in technology
to enhance services for its customers, drive business growth and maintain a
competitive edge.
"The Cisco 2800 and 3800 ISRs, which helped increase network reliability,
performance and service, have enabled us to compete on an equal ground with
larger, multinational banks," said Bryan Nash, senior vice president of
information technology at McHenry. "The voice capabilities on the Cisco
ISRs dramatically simplified McHenry's network operations while increasing
network uptime. With Cisco's implementation, we were able to reduce
operating costs by $46,000."
Continued Innovation Drives Sales of Cisco ISRs
The multi-award-winning Cisco ISR portfolio consists of the Cisco 800,
1800, 2800 and 3800 series routers; they are one of the best-selling
products in Cisco history. With the continued addition of new advanced
services to the Cisco ISR portfolio, Cisco empowers branch offices
worldwide to optimize and grow their businesses.
Cisco sold 1 million routers in 18 months and another 1 million routers
just nine months later. A growing percentage of the routers were sold with
advanced services. This adoption shows that Cisco customers value the
various integrated advanced services options that Cisco offers.
Cisco in Second Life
In conjunction with today's announcement, Cisco is excited to begin its
journey in Second Life, a 3D interactive social networking metaverse, with
the opening of our Cisco campus (in Second Life look for "Cisco Systems").
The Second Life community represents a new opportunity for businesses to
interact with the public in a creative and fun virtual environment.
Pricing and Availability
The Cisco WAAS module and Cisco Network Analysis Module will begin at U.S.
list prices of $3,750 and $4,495, respectively. The Cisco WAAS module is
available now, and the Cisco NAM is scheduled to be available first quarter
of calendar year 2007.
The Cisco GET VPN solution is scheduled to be available starting December
2006 through a feature of the Cisco IOS® 12.4(11)T on Cisco ISRs, Cisco
7301 and Cisco 7200 routers.
For more information on the Cisco ISR portfolio, visit:
www.cisco.com/go/isr.
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