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Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers

Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers

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What is Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers?

Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers is a solution designed to deliver performance, security, and flexibility to help accelerate the user's digitization journey at the edge.

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10 out of 10
June 24, 2019
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What is Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers?

Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers are presented as a secure, high-performance, 5G routers in a modular design that support private LTE, FirstNet*, Wi-Fi6 and Gigabit Ethernet. The series is purpose-built for mobile and remote use cases in multiple industries. Designed with a high level of modularity, they can be customized to help reduce costs and make networking investments ready for the future, keeping in mind the needs of tomorrow. With high bandwidth and throughputs from 5G and Wi-Fi 6, they enable users to power experiences and drive efficiency.

The Catalyst IR1800 Series offers enterprise-grade security from the hardware to the network communications all the way to the industrial assets. The routers are powered by Cisco IOS® XE, Cisco’s fully programmable operating system.

The IR1800 Series is built to withstand the harsh environments found in transportation, public safety, and oil and gas applications. Automotive certifications and features such as Controller Area Network (CAN) bus support, dead reckoning and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), and ignition power management make it ideal for secure, reliable connectivity in transit and public safety applications, including first responder vehicles, passenger fleets, service fleets, and commercial truck fleets.

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Cisco 831, 881, and 881w routers for small single computer sites. The 800 series used in Network Extension mode makes a great small office solution. enough ports for a PC, a printer and an IP Phone. The 800 series securely connect to our Cisco ASA headend by VPN over any internet transport available at the location.
We use the 800 series across all departments for any site location where we need a very small office.
The 800 series/ ASA combination makes locations financial feasible where where private lines would be much too expensive for the use case.
  • Connects local site to VPN headend
  • Securely adds a network subnet in remote locations
  • The security available in an inexpensive package makes these units a great value.
  • Programming can be complicated for new users
  • An easier VPN setup would be a good value add to this product
  • PoE for IP Phones requires an add-on daughter card
  • The daughter card add expense and requires that the 800 series unit be opened to install card
The [Cisco 800 Series Industrial ISR (IR 800)] is great when we need to add a small new site in a very short time.
Our previous experience with these units makes the roll-out of new sites quick and almost seamless.
The 800 series excels in locations where we want to tunnel all traffic back to the core site.
Split tunneling for "SD-WAN" type use is not as functional as in other products.
  • 800 Series units are a great value for very small sites
  • The 800 series have allowed us to be agile in the opening of sites quickly in under-served rural areas.
  • The only downside is having to renew the support every few years.
The Meraki Z3 falls into roughly the same category as the 800 series and requires no daughter card for PoE.
The Meraki MX are more expensive and require more infrastructure to support.
The Meraki units also completely stop working when licensing is not renewed, and are more in the class of an SD-WAN product.
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We use these units to create Legacy VPN connections at our smaller sites. They act as basic firewall and connect the smaller sites to our Cisco Headend for fast, secure and cost-effective vpn access for the small to very small sites.
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The head of our help desk is Cisco Certified and can configure the Cisco ASA headend and the remote Cisco 800 series routers. They can also support and perform diagnostics and troubleshooting on the systems. We also have a network architect that can design and support the Cisco 800 series routers
  • Connecting Small sites to our core network
  • Acting as transport connection at our smaller sites
  • acting as basic firewall for the smaller sites
  • We are able to send an entire "network in a box" to our remote clinicians that may need to work from home or small office.
  • We can use the Cisco 800 series to quickly bring up a temporary site in an emergency.
  • Possible use as field units in a disaster.
  • We might be able to bring an offshore clinician online, but have all of their traffic terminate on shore.
These units are legacy technology, and will soon be no longer supported by Cisco
December 22, 2023

Rugged Routers

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Monash implements the Cisco 800 Series Industrial ISR IR800 routers within their inter-campus buses. The 4G connection supplies WAN connectivity back to Headoffice and the Wireless Access Point allows users in the bus to connect.
  • 4G connectivity
  • Wireless connectivity
  • Reliability
  • Regular power cycles put system into ROMMON... requires onsite visit
Great for in-vehicle connectivity back to the WAN. The system is well designed for permanent attachment to structures and small enough to be hidden easily.
  • Enabled connectivity between campuses for students.
  • Cisco 800 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 800) and Cisco 1000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 1000)
The Cisco 800 Series Industrial ISR routers have proven to be more reliable than the standard ISR routers within moving vehicles.
Ezekiel Mathew | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
While sampling the routers we picked the Cisco Catalyst IR1800 series, 1835 to be specific mostly because of their flexibility; the router supports wi-fi 6 and the recently incorporated 5G network. Our organization takes part in developing solutions for the geospatial engineering community. To accomplish this we needed routers that are simple to install and can accommodate constant mobility and that's why we took the Cisco 1800 on board.
  • Partakes minimal disruptions under mobility while in use by technicians.
  • Has high bandwidths
  • The routers are secure from multiple network attacks.
  • The routers' functionality under private LTE networks was quite largish at first, but they adapted to solve this with time
If the solutions you use are mostly on the go (mobile more often than not) then the Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Series Routers would be a great fit for you. In our case we deal with geospatial appliances. The routers are vibration resistant and maintain stable connectivity in motion. My department was tasked with analyzing the security framework of the routers. We hopped on a call with Cisco and we were satisfied with their enterprise-grade security model; and it's the reason why we still use the 1800 series a year down the line.
  • Operations dashboard to monitor the routers.
  • The field Network Director.
  • Cisco IOx support for Applications.
  • Stable connectivity under mobility for our mobile teams.
  • Secure routers for data protection.
  • High performing networks.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have recently deployed Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged series in my department's network. We use these flexible 5G modular routers to support our private LTE, Wi-Fi6 and our consolidated threat detection for deployments. We also use them to increase security within our network and accelerate our connectivity. They have advanced the network stability in our organization enhancing solidity in productivity.
  • Modular design that effectively support businesses of whichever size.
  • compatibility with the most recent Wi-Fi technology.
  • Support for Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN making it very scalable.
  • We had to engage the cisco team for installation since the process is very complex.
Cisco catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers are the best modular routers supporting 5G for any enterprise. They are dependable, flexible and support advanced SD-WAN having the highest possible scalability. The routers have been built to hold out against severe environments so we have no worries of failure after a short period. They are also helpful in optimizing our IoT deployments, configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting.
  • scalability.
  • Fast Connectivity.
  • security.
  • Highly programmable.
  • Network and data security automation.
  • Stability within our networks.
  • Faster communication and network connectivity.
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