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Cisco 2900 Series
Cisco IOS Software
Cisco 2900 Series Integrated Services Routers
deliver innovative technologies running on
industry-leading Cisco IOS Software. Developed
for wide deployment in the world's most
demanding enterprise, access, and service
provider networks, the Integrated Services Routers
Generation 2 platforms are supported on Cisco
IOS Software releases 15M&T. Release 15.0(1)M is
available immediately and provides support for a
comprehensive portfolio of Cisco technologies,
including the functionality and features delivered
in releases 12.4 and 12.4T. New innovations in
15.0(1)M 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 IOS technology feature sets 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 2900 Series Integrated Services Routers;
you can activate the licenses through the Cisco
software activation process identified at
http://www.cisco.com/go/sa.
The four licenses are as follows:
• IP Base: This technology package is available
as default
• Data
• Unified Communications
• Security (SEC) or Security with No Payload
Encryption (SEC-NPE)
For additional information and details about Cisco
IOS Software licensing and packaging on Cisco
2900 Series Integrated Services Routers, please
visit: http://www.cisco.com/go/2900l
For a more comprehensive list of features
supported in Cisco IOS software refer to the
Feature Navigator tool at:
http://www.cisco.com/go/fn.
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Key Branch-Office Services
The Cisco Integrated Services Routers are
industry-leading platforms that offer unprecedented
levels of services integration. Designed to meet
the requirements of the branch office, these
platforms provide a complete solution with voice,
video, security, mobility and application services.
Businesses enjoy the benefit of deploying a single
device that meets all their needs, reducing capital
and operational expenses.
Unified Communications,
Collaboration, and Voice-Gateway
Services
The Cisco 2900 Integrated Services Router
is the foundation for collaboration in the small
and midsize branch office, serving as a critical
component of a Cisco's video architecture
(Medianet) and enterprise Unified Communications
solution. With embedded voice services and a
wide range of supported telephony interfaces, the
Cisco 2900 Series delivers maximum deployment
flexibility for the distributed enterprise. Unified
communications is enabled through a rich signaling
and media-processing infrastructure, including
a variety of protocols, media interworking, signal
and media security, transcoding, conferencing,
and QoS. Cisco Integrated Services Routers also
feature a wide range of voice-gateway interfaces,
supporting a broad array of signaling and physical
network interfaces.
The Cisco 2900 Series enables a full range of
existing and emerging video services, with scaling
improvements to support Cisco TelePresence ®
conferencing, security, and session control. The
Cisco Unified Border Element extends these
capabilities for business-to-business TelePresence
communications. The Cisco 2900 Series adds
support for the new Cisco High-Density Packet
Voice Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Module
(PVDM3), which has been optimized for voice and
video support. The new PVDM3 modules support
all voice-gateway functions of earlier generations
of PVDMs and add higher density and more
processing power to support emerging rich-media
applications. The Cisco 2900 Series provides 2 or 3
onboard PVDM3 slots, depending on the platform.
Cisco IOS Software
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Cisco Unified Communications
Manager Express and Survivable
Remote Site Telephony
The Cisco Integrated Services Routers natively
provide optional unified communications services
within the Cisco IOS Software, minimizing the IT
hardware footprint and total cost of ownership at
the branch office. Cisco Unified Communications
Manager Express (CME) provides a broad range of
IP private-branch-exchange (PBX) and key-system
features integrated into the router for the small and
midsize branch office. Cisco Survivable Remote
Site Telephony (SRST), also inherently available in
Cisco IOS Software, and an option on the Cisco
2900 Series, helps ensure that branch-office
employees have uninterrupted telephony services
and features, even if the connection to a centralized
Cisco Unified Communications Manager is
disrupted. Coupled with Cisco Unity ® Express,
the integrated solution for voicemail, Automated
Attendant, and interactive voice response (IVR),
the Cisco 2900 Series offers the branch office
a complete range of unified communications
services while delivering industry-leading security
within a single platform.
VoiceXML Application Services
The Cisco 2900 Series also supports standards-
certified VoiceXML browser services. VoiceXML is
an open-standard markup language used to create
voice-enabled web browsers and IVR applications.
Just as HTML enables you to retrieve data with
a PC, VoiceXML enables you to retrieve data
using voice or dual-tone-multifrequency (DTMF)
telephony input. The Cisco 2900 Series can deliver
a much higher range of concurrent voice-gateway
services combined with VoiceXML browser
services, for up to 200 sessions on the Cisco 2951.
Cisco Unified Border Element
The Cisco Unified Border Element capabilities
supported on the Cisco 2900 Series address
the emerging requirements in an IP-centric
interconnect for branch-office unified
communications between enterprises and service
provider networks. Cisco Unified Border Element
provides intelligent border-element functions
such as physical and logical ingress and egress
demarcation points, signaling and media control,
and consolidated security and management
features. The Cisco 2900 Series supports higher
scale than previously provided on the Cisco 2800
Series, up to 3 times the number of sessions.
Cisco 2900 Series
Integrated Network Security for Data,
Voice, Video, 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 2900
Series Integrated Services Routers facilitate secure
business transactions and collaboration.
The Cisco IOS Software Security technology
package for the Cisco 2900 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. The Cisco 2900 Series offers onboard
hardware-based encryption acceleration to provide
greater IPsec throughput with less overhead for the
route processor when compared with software-
based encryption solutions. Cisco Integrated
Services Routers offer a comprehensive and
adaptable security solution for branch offices that
includes features such as:
• Secure connectivity: Secure collaborative
communications with Group Encrypted Transport
VPN, Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN), or
Enhanced Easy VPN
• Integrated threat control: Responding to
sophisticated network attacks and threats using
Cisco IOS Firewall, Cisco IOS Zone-Based
Firewall, Cisco IOS IPS, Cisco 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 about the security features
and solutions supported on the Cisco 2900
Series is available at http://www.cisco.com/go/
routersecurity.
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