Cisco unveils second generation of its Integrated Services Router
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 22 October 2009, 04:02 IST
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Bangalore: Cisco has announced the launch of Integrated Services Router (ISR) G2 which offers as much as five times the performance of its predecessor, the Cisco ISR, the industry's most widely deployed router with more than seven million units sold since it was introduced in 2004. "Networking has always been at the core of Cisco's business. We have a long history of excellence and innovation in networking and we continue to bring customers new capabilities, including new technologies enabling video, collaboration, virtualization and mobility. Our ISR G2 router line significantly increases our customers ability to capitalize on these key business and technology trends. Our core networking business remains as strategic and as vitally important to us, as it does to those we serve," said Brett Galloway, Senior Vice President for Cisco's Wireless, Security and Routing Technology Group. Cisco also introduced its Borderless Networks Architecture and a five-phase plan designed to help deliver services and applications to anyone, anywhere, on any device, at anytime. As applications and services are increasingly offered and consumed from beyond the enterprise perimeter, a new approach will be required. The ISR G2 enables premise-based services while extending mobility, security, and performance to users, no matter where the user or application is located. The Cisco ISR G2 helps businesses and service providers simplify and scale delivery of on-demand, networked business services like video and collaborative applications at branch offices. It serves as a natural part of the Cisco Borderless Networks Architecture, which combines the company's routing, switching, wireless, and security technologies into a more tightly integrated networking infrastructure that allows businesses to embrace the growing use of video, collaborative applications, and other networked services more efficiently and deliver them across their enterprises. With Borderless Networks, information technology managers can more easily manage, scale, govern, and protect networks while tightening the synergy between users, devices, applications, and business processes. Inbar Lasser-Raab, Senior Director of Marketing, Network Systems and Smart Grid Solutions, Cisco said that business video adoption is expected to climb to 77.6 percent by 2012. Also, it is expected that by 2012 almost 90 percent of the consumer traffic will be video. With video proven to play a key role in enabling business innovation and better customer service, the video-ready architecture and new video digital signal processors in the ISR G2 will be key to delivering medianet capabilities essential to the Borderless Networks experience. Shashi Kiran, Senior Manager, Network Systems and Security, Cisco said that the company has put in lot of efforts to make network upgrades as painless as possible. Cisco is also providing 60 days trial license for consumer if they want to try the product before they implement it completely and this will help companies make the correct decision, added Kiran. The Cisco Borderless Networks Architecture delivers Cisco EnergyWise across multiple platforms to empower organizations to better manage their power consumption and costs through increased visibility and policy-based controls. Usually, most of the companies spend a lot on maintenance of the software but Cisco has helped companies to bring this cost down by almost 70 percent, according to Kiran.

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