Cisco 3800 Series Extends Cisco Systems’ Leadership

Cisco router 3800 Series Integrated Services Routers offer exceptional network agility, performance, and intelligence. These routers transparently integrate advanced technologies, adaptive services, and secure enterprise communications into a single, resilient system. They ease deployment and management, lower network cost and complexity, and provide excellent investment protection.

The cisco 3800 Series feature embedded security processing, generous performance, high memory capacity, and high-density interfaces that deliver the performance, availability, and reliability required for scaling mission-critical security, IP telephony, business video, network analysis, and web applications in the most demanding enterprise environments. Built for performance, these routers deliver multiple concurrent services up to wire-speed T3/E3 rates.

Cisco 3800 Series routers deliver the performance, availability, and reliability required for scaling mission-critical business applications in the most demanding enterprise environments, with features such as:

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 two 10/100/1000 Mbps built-in routed ports

Up to 112 10/100 Mbps switch ports with optional Power over Ethernet (PoE), for providing DC power to network devices such as IP phones

Up to 2500 VPN tunnels

Cisco CallManager Express call-processing support for up to 240 Cisco IP phone users

Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) support for up to 720 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

Built-in redundant power supply (on 3845 model)

There are four routers in the Cisco 3800 series—Cisco 3825 router, Cisco 3825-NOVPN, Cisco 3845 and Cisco 3845-NOVPN router. All routers support WAN interface cards (WIC), voice/WAN interface cards (VWICs), high-speed WAN interface cards (HWICs), and advanced integration modules (AIMs). There is also some difference between these routers that is cisco3825 router and Cisco 3825-NOVPN routers support 2 network module slots, but Cisco 3845 and Cisco 3845-NOVPN routers provide 4 network module slots, labeled 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Popular Cisco 3800 items:

CISCO3825: Firewall protection, hardware encryption, VPN support, MPLS support, URL filtering

CISCO3845: Firewall protection, hardware encryption, VPN support, MPLS support, URL filtering

CISCO3825-SEC/K9:Firewall protection, MPLS support

CISCO3845-SEC/K9: Firewall protection, MPLS support

CISCO3825-HSEC/K9: Firewall protection, hardware encryption, VPN support, MPLS

CISCO3845-HSEC/K9:Firewall protection, hardware compression, hardware encryption, VPN support, MPLS support, content filtering, URL filtering, Quality of Service (QoS), Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN)

More info of CISCO 3800 series’ features and pricing you can visit: Cisco 3800 at RouterSwitch.com

Cisco refuses to deny it will sell off Linksys

Cisco router is understood to be planning to sell off its consumer router Linksys business. The company has declined to squash the rumour.

According to people familiar with the situation, the network giant is mulling over letting go of its WebEx brand, too. The moves could come as soon as next week.
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A Cisco spokesman told The Register today that the company was not willing to "comment on rumour and speculation".

Just last week, when discussing the firm's third quarter results, Cisco boss John Chambers said that the company would be scaling back on products and people.

Over the past few months analysts have been wondering if cisco871 would offload Linksys among other consumer brands.

Cisco bought Linksys in March 2003 in a $500m all-stock deal. Four years later it snapped up web-conferencing outfit WebEx in a big $2.9bn acquisition. Both buys were bold moves by cisco 871 to widen its portfolio by offering consumer products.

Then cut to last month when the company closed its Flip camera business not long after Chambers said in an internal memo to Cisco staff that he wanted to "simplify the way we work and how we focus our attention and resources".

Hang-Tough Time for Cisco

Can Cisco Systems Chief Executive John Chambers still turn the networking giant around?

That's the question on the minds of many tech investors in the wake of yet another disappointing quarter. On top of mediocre earnings, cisco router Chambers continued to lower expectations. Increased competition from Juniper Networks (ticker: JNPR; see "Juniper: Emerging Network Star"), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and China's Huawei (002502.China) is taking its toll. But so are internal organizational issues as well as big-picture strategic quandaries, such as how to reposition the company during the current sea-change in enterprise computing.

It's tough to bet against Chambers, who has been at the helm of Cisco (CSCO) for 16 of its 26 years. He is the supersalesman who directed the company through the period of hypergrowth driven by the historic build-out of the commercial Internet. And speaking personally, I have to say he is one of the most respected CEOs I've met in my nearly 25 years as a business reporter. His utterances move markets.

That said, Chambers finds himself fighting some of the toughest battles of his career on multiple fronts. In addition to increased competition, Cisco is suffering from talent drain and a lack of clear direction in pursuit of new products and markets. Exhibit A: the recent closure of the Flip digital video device unit.

Late last year, my colleague Michael Santoli argued that if Cisco reached its long-term revenue growth goals of 12% to 17%, shares would rise to 27 ("Ending the Cisco Skid," Dec. 27, 2010). Shares were about 20 at the time. By February, ws-x4624-sfp-e the stock had risen a couple of bucks. But last Friday, after a week of lousy news, shares closed at 16.88.

In the short run, with shares trading a bargain-basement nine times forward earnings, Cisco's stock could reward investors yet again. But when? And will the recovery have staying power? Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu, who has a Buy recommendation, says it may take a "few quarters to fix" the problems. But eventually, the bull sees shares surging back to 29 over 12 months.

Cisco blamed reduced government spending and lower margins on newly introduced products for some of its woes. It acknowledged that competition has stiffened. Switch sales were down 9%. Chambers announced $1 billion in cost reductions, including potentially the largest layoff in company history. ws-x45-sup7-e A Cisco spokesman said that recently launched new products will see fatter profit margins over future quarters as they ramp up and gain more scale.

THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT DEMAND for networking gear is growing. The bad news is that the company is suffering from problems that are specific to Cisco, of which some could be systemic and long-term.

In the short term, bulls such as Wu might be right. But over the long haul, Cisco may continue to struggle to find new growth. A recent study by Gartner, the research outfit, entitled "Debunking the myth of the single-vendor network," identifies a huge threat to its core business. ws-x45-sup6l-e Cisco has long told customers that owning a Cisco-only network is more cost efficient, which locked in corporate customers at higher prices. But the study contends that the introduction of a second vendor, such as Juniper or HP, could actually decrease the total cost of ownership of a data network by 15% to 25%.

If that's true, Chambers really has his work cut out for him.