Routers

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Cisco Catalyst IR1100 Rugged Series Routers

Cisco 1100 Series Industrial Integrated Services routers, or the Cisco IR1101, are presented as compact, modular, and ruggedized, with a design that is optimal for mission-critical cases. It boasts stronger industrial router security and simplified management with SD-WAN architecture,…

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Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)

Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000) provides a scalable, flexible foundation so you can quickly integrate leading IT initiatives like SD-WAN and edge compute, while meeting the explosive network performance need driven by cloud-based application adoption.

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Cisco Catalyst IR1100 Rugged Series Routers

Cisco 1100 Series Industrial Integrated Services routers, or the Cisco IR1101, are presented as compact, modular, and ruggedized, with a design that is optimal for mission-critical cases. It boasts stronger industrial router security and simplified management with SD-WAN architecture,…

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Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)

The Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000) is a SD-WAN ready router.

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Cisco Routers

Cisco routers support secure, reliable enterprise connections. These enterprise routers help users implement an intent-based, future-ready WAN that is constantly learning, adapting, and protecting. Deploy routers for the branch, cloud, co-location, or the data center with any type…

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Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)

Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000) are designed to support carrier edge networks.

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Cisco 1000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 1000)

Cisco 1000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 1000) provides software-defined WAN and integrated security features.

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Cisco 800 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 800)

Cisco 800 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 800) are designed to supply data, security and wireless capabilities in a simple to use form.

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Cisco Small Business RV Series

The Cisco Small Business RV Series provides SMBs with connectivity, VPN for remote employees, and other features.

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Cisco 5500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5500)

Cisco 5500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5500) Series offers industry-leading density of routed 100 GE ports for high-scale WAN aggregation.

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MikroTik Routers and Switches

Latvian company MikroTik offers routers and switches.

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Cisco 900 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR)

The Cisco 900 Series Industrial ISR (IR 900) series of routers are designed with an open platform to build a highly secure, reliable, and scalable field network infrastructure.

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Cisco 800 Series Industrial ISR (IR 800)

Cisco 800 Series Industrial ISR (IR 800) series of routers are compact and designed for harsh environments. They are used to oversee a variety of Internet of Things (IoT) gateway tasks.

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Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)

Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V) offers routing, security, and network management as cloud services with multitenancy. The series is infrastructure agnostic and programmable across the LAN, WAN, and in the cloud.

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Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000)

The Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000) is a high-density, small-form-factor MPLS aggregation router for metro aggregation and MPLS-enabled data center networks. The Network Convergence System 5000 Series is designed to economically scale large enterprise, over-…

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Cisco 2000 Series Connected Grid Routers (CGR 2000)

The Cisco 2000 Series Connected Grid Routers (CGR 2000) are designed specifically for the harsh, rugged environments often found in the energy and utility industries.

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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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Cisco 500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 500)

The Cisco 500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 500) is a highly secure and highly available access-routing platform for service providers.

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Cisco 5000 Series Enterprise Network Compute System (ENCS 5000)

The Cisco 5000 Series Enterprise Network Compute System (ENCS 5000) is a router designed to support network function virtualization (NFV).

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Cisco Meraki Z3 Teleworker

Cisco Meraki Z3 Teleworker is an enterprise class firewall, VPN gateway and router. Each model offers five gigabit ethernet ports and wireless for connectivity. Each model is designed to securely extend the power of Meraki cloud managed networking to employees, IT staff, and executives…

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Adtran NetVanta Routers and Switches

Adtran in Huntsville, Alabama offers the NetVanta brand of routers and switches.

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Cisco vEdge Routers

Cisco’s SD-WAN vEdge Routers are routing components of the architecture that delivers WAN, security and multi-cloud capability of the Cisco SD-WAN solution. Cisco SD-WAN vEdge routers are delivered as hardware, software, cloud or virtualized components that sit at the perimeter of…

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Cisco 6000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 6000)

The Cisco 6000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 6000) helps enable superior network agility, packet optical convergence, and petabits-per-second system scale.

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Sierra Wireless AirLink Cellular Routers and Gateways

Sierra Wireless headquartered in Richmond offers the AirLink series of cellular routers and gateways supporting vehicle networking, ruggedized series, and Ethernet routers.

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HPE Enterprise Routers

Hewlett-Packard offers enterprise routers.

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Juniper Enterprise Routers

Sunnyvale-based Juniper Networks offers enterprise routers.

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Learn More About Routers

What is a Router?

A router is a network hardware device that manages network traffic between the Internet and a wide variety of client devices, both wired and wireless. A router forwards data packets between computer networks and performs the traffic-directing functions on the Internet.

Routers are generally divided into three categories, consumer, business, and enterprise level. Consumer or home office routers primarily communicate between the internet and home computing devices. These routers typically integrate many network solutions into one device for the home user. Business and enterprise routers do not usually include integrated wireless access points but provide higher speed ports and higher pps (packet per second) speeds for data transfer. Enterprise routers also provide the most scalable, redundant solutions with most robust security features in addition to the highest speeds.

Features & Capabilities

Consumer router features

  • Wi-Fi access point - The router creates a WLAN by projecting a Wi-Fi signal to a designated area
  • Integrated antennas
  • Quality of Service (QoS) - This capability serves to prioritize network traffic from the router to a client
  • USB ports for printers or drives - Enable multiple users to share single resources, such as a printer or storage drive
  • Guest networks - Set up a separate access level for guests with a separate password and restricted access
  • Malware and spam protection - Having malware at the router level can help catch viruses and spam before it reaches the client computer
  • Firewall
  • Parental Controls

Business and enterprise router features

  • Enhanced security features
  • Virtual LANs and multiple SSIDs - Set up separate networks with varying permissions, dedicated ethernet channels, and separate SSIDs (service set identifier) for each VLAN
  • VPN Capabilities - A virtual private network (VPN) allows users to securely access your network while working remotely
  • Dual or backup WAN port - Allows you to have backup internet in case of a failure
  • Multiple ethernet or optical ports
  • PoE (Power over Ethernet) support

Pricing Information

As with most pieces of hardware, there is a large price range depending on the amount of features and level of security required. Consumer routers can easily be purchased between $50 and $300. Business routers range from $400 to $2,000 while enterprise level routers can cost well over $50,000.

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