Suitable for

The Cisco 2901 are suitable for all of inCloudOne® 2 and 4-line bonded (Annex-M) services including the Business 40Mbps Internet, Business 80Mbps Internet, VPN and all of ourLeased Line Services

Cisco 2901/K9 Series Integrated Services Routers

Cisco® 2900 Series Integrated Services Routers build on 25 years of Cisco innovation and product leadership. The new platforms are architected to enable the next phase of branch-office evolution, providing rich media collaboration and virtualization to the branch while maximizing operational cost savings The Integrated Services Routers Generation 2 platforms are future-enabled with multi-core CPUs, support for high capacity DSPs (Digital Signal Processors) for future enhanced video capabilities, high powered service modules with improved availability, Gigabit Ethernet switching with enhanced POE, and new energy monitoring and control capabilities while enhancing overall system performance. Additionally, a new Cisco IOS® Software Universal image and Services Ready Engine module enable you to decouple the deployment of hardware and software, providing a flexible technology foundation which can quickly adapt to evolving network requirements. Overall, the Cisco 2900 Series offer unparalleled total cost of ownership savings and network agility through the intelligent integration of market leading security, unified communications, wireless, and application services.

The Cisco 2901 Integrated Services Router (ISR) delivers highly secure data, voice, video, and application services for small offices.

Product Overview

All Cisco 2900 Series Integrated Services Routers offer embedded hardware encryption acceleration, voice- and video-capable digital signal processor (DSP) slots, optional firewall, intrusion prevention, call processing, voicemail, and application services. In addition, the platforms support the industries widest range of wired and wireless connectivity options such as T1/E1, T3/E3, xDSL, copper and fiber GE.

Key features include

• 2 integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports
• 4 enhanced high-speed WAN interface card slots
• 2 onboard digital signal processor (DSP) slots
• 1 onboard Internal Service Module for application services
• Fully integrated power distribution to modules supporting 802.3af Power over Ethernet (PoE) and Cisco Enhanced PoE
• Security
• Embedded hardware-accelerated VPN encryption for secure collaborative VPN communications
• Integrated threat control using Cisco IOS Firewall, Cisco IOS Zone-Based Firewall, Cisco IOS IPS, and Cisco IOS Content Filtering
• Identity management that uses authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) and public key infrastructure
• Voice
• High-density-packet voice DSP module, optimized for voice and video
• Standards-certified VoiceXML browser services
• Cisco Unified Border Element capabilities
• Cisco Unity Express voicemail support
• Support for Cisco Communications Manager Express and Survivable Remote Site Telephony

Cisco Enhanced High Speed WAN Interface Card (EHWIC)

This card can be used for all of the inCloudOne® ADSL2+ services including Bonded and ADSL backup lines for our leased line circuits

• The EHWIC slot replaces the high-speed WAN interface card (HWIC) slot and can natively support HWICs, WAN interface cards (WICs), voice interface cards (VICs), and voice/WAN interface cards (VWICs)
• Two integrated EHWIC slots are available on the Cisco 1941 for flexible configurations for support of two modules: One double wide HWIC-D or single wide EHWIC/HWIC module and a second single wide E- HIC/HWIC module are supported
• Each HWIC Slot offers high data throughput capability ◦ Up to 1.6 Gbps aggregate towards the router processor ◦ Up to 2 Gbps aggregate to other module slots over MultiGigabit Fabric (MGF)

Key Business Benefits

The Integrated Services Routers Generation 2 (ISR G2) provide superior services integration and agility. Designed for scalability, the modular architecture of these platforms enables you to grow and adapt with your business needs.

Services integration

The Cisco 2900 Series ISRs offer increased levels of services integration with voice, video, security, wireless, mobility, and data services, enabling greater efficiencies and cost savings.

Services On Demand

A single Cisco IOS® Software Universal image is installed on each ISR G2. The Universal image contains all of the Cisco IOS technology sets which can be activated with a software license. This allows your business to quickly deploy advanced features without downloading a new IOS image. Additionally, larger default memory is included to support the new capabilities.

The Cisco Services Ready Engine (SRE) enables a new operational model which allows you to reduce capital expenditures (CapEx) and deploy a variety of application services as needed on a single integrated compute services module.

High performance with integrated services

The Cisco 2900 Series enables deployment in high speed WAN environments with concurrent services enabled up to 75 Mbps.

A multigigabit fabric (MGF) enables high-bandwidth module-to-module communication without compromising routing performance.

Network agility

Designed to address customer business requirements, the Cisco 2900 Series modular architecture offers increased capacity and performance as your network needs grow.

Modular interfaces offer increased bandwidth, a diversity of connection options, and network resiliency.

Energy efficiency

The Cisco 2900 Series architecture provides energy-saving features that include the following:

The Cisco 2900 Series offers intelligent power management and allows the customer to control power to the modules based on the time of day. Cisco EnergyWise technology will be supported in the future.

Services integration and modularity on a single platform performing multiple functions, optimizes raw materials consumption and energy usage.

Platform flexibility and ongoing development of both hardware and software capabilities lead to a longer product lifecycle, lowering all aspects of the total cost of ownership, including materials and energy use.

High efficiency power supplies are provided with each platform.

Investment protection

The Cisco 2900 Series maximizes investment protection:

Reuse of a broad array of existing modules supported on the original Integrated Services Routers provides a lower cost of ownership

A rich set of Cisco IOS Software features carried forward from the original Integrated Services Routers and delivered in a single universal image.

Flexibility to adapt as your business needs evolve.

What do the different annexes specify?

The scope of the different annexes in G.992.5 is defined as follows:

• Annex-A: This annex defines those parameters of the ADSL system that are unique to an ADSL service that is frequency division multiplexed with basic telephone service.
• Annex-B: This annex defines those parameters of the ADSL system that are unique to an ADSL service that is frequency division multiplexed with ISDN BA on the same digital subscriber line.
• Annex-M: This annex defines those parameters of the ADSL with an extended upstream bandwidth system that are unique to an ADSL service that is frequency division multiplexed with basic telephone service.
• Annex-L: This annex defines those parameters of the ADSL system that are unique to a reach-extended ADSL2 service that is frequency division multiplexed with basic telephone service.

What is Annex-M?

• This annex-M is an annex of the G.992.3 standard that extends the upstream bandwidth. This extension is achieved by doubling the upstream frequency range. With this feature, service providers can provision symmetric data rates for ADSL2 and ADSL2+ services with data rates up to 2 Mbps.
• The ADSL2+ standard (ITU G.992.5) doubles the bandwidth used for downstream data transmission, effectively doubling the maximum downstream data rates, and achieving downstream data rates of up to 24 Mbps and upstream data rates of up to 1.5 Mbps. The exact data rates vary depending on the distance from the DSL access multiplexer (DSLAM), DSLAM type, line card and chipset, and firmware, noise profile, quality of copper, etc. The reach-extended ADSL2 standard (G.992.3) Annex L increases performance on loop lengths greater than 16,000 feet from the Central Office. The Annex M for G.992.3 (ADSL2) and G.992.5 (ADSL2+) was consented on October 2003. The Annex M for for G.992.3 (ADSL2) and G.992.5 (ADSL2+) contains PSD Masks for new ADSL2 service over POTS that increases the upstream data rates by doubling the number of US tones to 64. As a result, Annex M provides higher upload speeds for users by doubling the upstream data rate (when compared to Annex A) under certain loop and noise conditions.