Introduction to Cisco ISR 900 Series Routers

Today I am going to talk about newly launched Cisco ISR 900 Series router. We will talk about the available options in Cisco ISR 900 Series router and also talk about the capabilities and features of Cisco ISR 900 series router. 

What are the various models of Cisco ISR 900 series router?

Cisco ISR 900 series router comes with four different options and these are Cisco ISR 921, Cisco ISR 926, Cisco ISR 927 and Cisco ISR 931

Cisco ISR 900 Series routers come with a 4-port managed switch, delivering LAN ports to connect numerous devices and up to 250 Mbps of VPN output for high performance. These are mighty fixed- configuration routers offer protected broadband, Metro Ethernet, and DSL connectivity. The routers bring incorporated security and threat defence  defensive networks from both known and new Internet vulnerabilities and attacks.

Fig 1.1- Cisco ISR 900 series Routers

VPN throughput Capacity:

Cisco ISR 921 comes up with the maximum of 150 Mbps of VPN throughput

Cisco ISR 926 comes up with the maximum of 150 Mbps of VPN throughput

Cisco ISR 927 comes up with the maximum of 150 Mbps of VPN throughput

Cisco ISR 931 comes up with the maximum of 250 Mbps of VPN throughput

VDSL2 and ADSL2/2+ support:

Cisco ISR 926 and Cisco ISR 927 supports VDSL2 and ADSL2/2+ while Cisco ISR 921 and Cisco ISR 931 doesn’t support VDSL2 and ADSL2/2+

VLAN, Flash and DRAM:

All Cisco ISR 900 routers have maximum support of 50 VLANs with 2 Gbps of Flash and 1 Gbps of DRAM.

Security Feature support:

All Cisco ISR 900 routers have security features like GETVPN, DMVPN, FlexVPN and stateful Firewall support inbuilt.

Application Feature Support:

Performance Routing (PfR) v3, Next-Generation Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR2), Application Visibility and Control (AVC), IP SLA Initiator, Hybrid Cloud Connectivity: LISP, Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS), Ethernet over MPLS, Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) v3, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)