Cisco earns gold in SearchNetworking.com™ Product Leadership Awards branch router category, for its 2800 Series ISR, scoring highest in each of eight criteria.

The award-winning Cisco 2800 Series routers, ideal for small to medium-sized businesses and enterprise branch offices, are designed for wire-speed delivery of highly secure concurrent services and can accommodate multiple T1/E1 connections for services including:

• Data
• Security
• Voice
• Video
• Wireless

The integrated services routing architecture of the Cisco 2800 Series provides the performance, availability, and reliability needed to scale mission-critical business applications in the most demanding environments.

The integrated services routing architecture of the Cisco 2800 Series provides the performance, availability, and reliability needed to scale mission-critical business applications in the most demanding environments. Features of the routers include:

• 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 2 10/100/1000 Mbps built-in routed ports
• Up to 64 10/100 Mbps switch ports with optional Power over Ethernet (PoE), for providing DC power to network devices such as IP phones
• Up to 1500 VPN tunnels
• Cisco CallManager Express (CME) call-processing support for up to 96 Cisco IP phone users
• Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) support for up to 96 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 (except 2801)
• Built-in redundant power supply connector (except 2801)