Cisco 2800 Series Integrated Service Routers

Building on 20 years of innovation, Cisco can provide a new network foundation of integrated services and embedded intelligence to help your business:

• Increase employee efficiency, productivity, and collaboration with wireless mobility and IP voice and video solutions.
• Respond to customer needs and competitive dynamics more quickly, with:
  • improved responsiveness,
  • lower costs, and
  • operational efficiency benefits coming at a faster pace, with easier deployment of new services.
• Protect your assets by making security pervasive in the network.
• Rapidly deploy secure Internet and WAN connectivity, wireless, and IP Communications solutions by simply activating new services as you need them, with smaller incremental investment.
• Reduce capital investments and operational costs by eliminating the need to deploy and manage new equipment in order to support new services-both today and in the future.
• Take advantage of fixed-configuration models of integrated services routers to integrate security, data, and wireless into your networks. If locally processed voice, video, or more flexible options in the network are desired, the modular integrated services routers offer a platform to meet the needs of every office.

Integrated Communications System 

With an integrated communications system, small businesses can save on costly phone bills, improve security against external and internal threats, integrate customer information, provide confidence that the Cisco network platform will address tomorrow’s business challenges and opportunities and give employees more mobility.

Organisational Efficiency

Companies reported cost savings and revenue generation benefits. One example of cost savings came from a customer’s ability to support their own telephony systems rather than relying on outside IT support. Another example was improvement of call center flow and volume.

End-User Productivity

Companies improved productivity with a workforce that could be more mobile without sacrificing functionality. Almost half of the companies surveyed reported less telephone tag – saving an average of 4 hours per week per employee.

IT Staff Productivity

Company IT staff were able to manage moves, adds, changes, and other normal support tasks more quickly. They also spent less time providing help desk support for telephony.

The integrated services routing architecture of the Cisco 2800 Series provides the performance, availability, and reliability needed to scale mission-critical business applications in the most demanding environments.

Features of the Cisco 2800 Series routers:

• Built-in security
• Cisco Router and Security Device Manager (SDM) for simplified management
• A modular platform with a broad range of interface options
• Up to 2 10/100/1000 Mbps built-in routed ports
• Up to 64 10/100 Mbps switch ports with optional Power over Ethernet (PoE), for providing DC power to network devices such as IP phones
• Up to 1500 VPN tunnels
• Cisco Call Manager Express (CME) call-processing support for up to 96 Cisco IP phone users
• Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) support for up to 96 Cisco IP phone users, allowing the router to provide call-processing functionality to keep voice service in operation should the connection to Cisco CME be lost
• Support for wireless LAN standards 802.11a/b/g
• Support for a Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) port for Gigabit Ethernet (except 2801)
• Built-in redundant power supply connector (except 2801)