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Cisco 1900 Series Cisco IOS Software The Cisco 1941 Series Integrated Services Routers deliver innovative technologies running on industryleading Cisco IOS Software. Developed for wide deployment in the world's most demanding enterprise, access, and service provider networks, Cisco IOS Software Release 15 M&T provides support for a comprehensive portfolio of Cisco technologies, including new functionality and features delivered in Releases 12.4 and 12.4T, and new innovations that span multiple technology areas, including security, voice, high availability, IP Routing and Multicast, quality of service (QoS), IP Mobility, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), VPNs, and embedded management. Cisco IOS Software Licensing and Packaging A single Cisco IOS Universal image encompassing all functions is delivered with the platforms. You can enable advanced features by activating a software license on the Universal image. In previous generations of access routers, these feature sets required you to download a new software image. Technology packages and feature licenses, enabled through the Cisco software licensing infrastructure, simplify software delivery and decrease the operational costs of deploying new features. Four major technology licenses are available on the Cisco 1941 Series Integrated Services Routers; you can activate the licenses through the Cisco software activation process identified at http://www.cisco.com/go/sa. • IP Base: This technology package is available as default • Data • Security (SEC) or Security with No Payload Encryption (SEC-NPE) For additional information and details about Cisco IOS Software licensing and packaging on Cisco 1941 Series Integrated Services Routers, please visit http://www.cisco.com/go/1941. Key Branch Office Services The Cisco Integrated Services Routers are industry-leading routers that offer unprecedented levels of services integration. Designed to meet the requirements of the branch office, these platforms provide a complete solution with voice, security, mobility, and data services. Businesses enjoy the benefit by deploying a single device that meets all their needs and save on capital and operational expenses. Integrated Network Security for Data and Mobility Security is essential to protect a business' intellectual property while also ensuring business continuity and providing the ability to extend the corporate workplace to employees who need anytime, anywhere access to company resources. As part of the Cisco SAFE architectural framework that allows organizations to identify, prevent, and adapt to network security threats-the Cisco 1900 Series Integrated Services Routers facilitate secure business transactions and collaboration. The Cisco IOS Software Security technology package license for the Cisco 1900 Series offers a wide array of common security features such as advanced application inspection and control, threat protection, and encryption architectures for enabling more scalable and manageable VPN networks in one solution set. The Cisco 1941 Series offers native hardware-based encryption acceleration to provide greater IPsec 72 Key Branch Office Services continued Cisco 1900 Series throughput with less overhead for the router processor when compared with software-based encryption solutions. Cisco Integrated Services Routers offer a comprehensive and adaptable security solution for branch-office routers that include features such as: • Secure connectivity: Secure collaborative communications with Group Encrypted Transport VPN (GETVPN), Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN), or Enhanced Easy VPN. • Integrated threat control: Respond to sophisticated network attacks and threats using Cisco IOS Firewall, Cisco IOS Zone-Based Firewall, IOS IPS, IOS Content Filtering, and Flexible Packet Matching (FPM). • Identity Management: Intelligently protecting endpoints using technologies such as authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) and public key infrastructure (PKI). Detailed information on the security features and solutions supported on the Cisco 1900 Series routers can be found at http://www.cisco.com/go/routersecurity. Wireless and Mobility Services Wireless LAN The Cisco Integrated Services Routers supporting the Cisco Unified Wireless Network enable deployment of secure, manageable WLANs optimized for remote sites and branch offices, including fast secure mobility, survivable authentication, and simplified management. The Cisco Unified Wireless Network addresses critical points of potential failure and helps enable resiliency and survivability for WLANs at remote locations and branch offices. This solution protects the WLAN by providing fast recovery from a variety of faults that may occur. With Cisco's high availability for remote WLANs, hardware and software work together to enable rapid recovery from disruptions and help ensure fault transparency to users and network applications. The new Cisco 1941W with IEEE 802.11n integrated access point support both unified and autonomous deployments. This integrated WiFi access point offers IEEE 802.11n draft 2.0 standard support for mobile access to high-bandwidth data, voice, and video applications through the use of multiple-input, multipleoutput (MIMO) technology that provides increased throughput, reliability, and predictability. IEEE 802.11n wireless networks create a cohesive working environment by combining the mobility of wireless with the performance of wired networks. Cisco has innovative, next-generation wireless solutions that offer greater performance and extended reach for pervasive wireless connectivity. IEEE 802.11n technology delivers outstanding reliability and up to nine times the throughput of current IEEE 802.11 a/b/g networks. It makes wireless networks an integral part of every type of organization by offering the following benefits: • Data rates of up to 600 Mbps support more users, devices, and mission-critical, bandwidth-intensive applications. • New MIMO technology provides predictable WLAN coverage and reliable connectivity. • Next-generation wireless technology provides superior investment protection to support emerging mobile applications. These routers help extend corporate networks to secure remote sites while giving users access to the same applications found in corporate offices for both data and voice applications. When users require WLAN access, visibility, and control of network security are even more critical at the remote site. The new fixed Cisco Integrated Services Routers meet this need with a single device that combines integrated IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n capabilities with security features such as WiFi Protected Access (WPA), including authentication with IEEE 802.1X with the Cisco Light Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP) and Protected EAP (PEAP) and encryption with the WPA Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP). 73