The Latest ISR 4000 Model Comparison***The “Always On” Cisco ISR 4000 Will Replace the Popular Cisco 1900, 2900, and 3900 Series

The Cisco is deciding to stop the ISR G2. Cisco Integrated Services Routers Generation 2 will be end-of-sale and end-of-life in Dec 2017. Yes, the Cisco ISR G2 will be replaced by the more powerful Cisco ISR 4000 Series. Why do the Cisco users migrate to ISR 4000 series? Cisco has already listed the main benefits while migrating to Cisco ISR 4000 Series:

When you need “always on” branch services, please consider the new 4000 Series ISR!Ideal for small, medium and large branches, the 4000 Series delivers critical branch network services, industry leading security, and multiple levels of redundancy, including Verizon XLTE, for “always on” business continuity.

Fueled by Cisco IOS-XE for up to 2Gbps performance with Advanced Network Services enabled, the 4000 Series provides industry-leading network, security, compute, and storage services to help you meet every day network challenges, and extend new hybrid WAN architectures and cloud services across remote sites.In addition to industry leading functionality, the 4000 Series offers a new Verizon Wireless 4G XLTE Module, Application Centric Services, and programmability to maximize utility and deployment flexibility.

Enhanced Redundancy w. 4G XLTE NIMDo you need enhanced business continuity?

Business continuity and increased resiliency are standard in the ISR 4k. Here are a few examples:

Resilient multi-core CPU architecture using separate control and data services planes.

Dual integrated power supplies (4451 and 4431 ISRs), and optional power supply for additional PoE power.

Modular interfaces with online removal and insertion (OIR) for module upgrades without network disruption.

Modular network interfaces for load-balancing and diverse connection options (T1/E1, T3/E3, Serial, xDSL, Gigabit and Ten-Gigabit Ethernet) for network resiliency.

For more information on features and capabilities of the ISR 4k family, please review the data sheet here.

Adding to the line of modular Network Interface Modules (NIM) and diverse connection options, the 4000 Series can now be equipped with the Verizon Wireless XLTE NIM to help improve business continuity.

Extensibility for New ServicesIs your network in transition?

Meeting application performance expectations has become more complex with the transition to IWAN, cloud, virtualization and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) environments. Traditional challenges with network congestion and latency are amplified.For example, as more web-based applications are deployed or run over shared infrastructure, visibility for capacity planning and troubleshooting becomes obscured. In addition, bandwidth demanding applications such as virtual desktops and latency-

sensitive applications such as video can have poor performance with a centralized deployment model.Cisco AX delivers application-centric networking by integrating essential application aware services and infrastructure tools into the router, in a pay-as-you-grow model enabling you to overcome these challenges.Learn more about the pay-as-you-grow AX services and licensing model.Another option to gain needed service extensibility is to purchase Cisco One Software with your ISR 4000 routers. Cisco One features “better together” pricing, reduced complexity, simplified buying and the peace of mind that today’s software investments can be utilized on hardware platforms purchased in the future. Cisco One software offers expense predictability throughout the lifecycle of the underlying hardware. More information about Cisco One for WAN can be found here. For more on how these new services are delivered in the ISR 4K, view the videos: ISR 4300 & ISR 4400 Video Data Sheets located here.

Deploying and managing new applications with the ISR 4k API

Are you prepared for the unknown?

Do you know all the services your users and network will demand in the future?   Most don’t. For needed extensibility to support today’s services, and for services you may not even know you will need, the 4000 Series offers Cisco IOS Embedded Event Manager (EEM).EEM is a unique subsystem within Cisco IOS Software that allows customers to harness the significant intelligence within Cisco IOS Software to respond to real-time events, automate tasks, create customized commands, and take local automated action based on conditions detected by the Cisco IOS Software.Custom programs or scripts, referred to as EEM policies, can be programmed using a simple Command-Line-Interface (CLI)-based interface or using a scripting language called Tool Command Language (Tcl).

Specific to ISR LTE services, several scripts already exist to support ease of provisioning, and platform and mobile management. Existing scripts can be found here.With EEM you take even more control of your environment to customize your user experience, ease your administration and to be prepared for new service demands. More information on EEM, including additional scripts and an ecosystem of partners who can help you create additional scripts can be found here.

The Cisco ISR 4000 family has 6 members now. They are ISR 4221(the newest one), 4321, 4331, 4351, 4431 and 4451 router.What are the differences among the six models? Cisco also updated the newest model comparison of ISR 4000 series. Let’s take a look.The Latest ISR 4000 Model Comparison

Feature 4221(new)

4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Form factor

1 RUDesktop

1 RUDesktop

1 RU 2 RU 1 RU 2 RU

Integrated WAN ports

GE / SFP

GE / SFP

GE / SFP

2 PoE GE / SFP

2 PoE GE / SFP

2 PoE GE / SFP

1 GE GE GE GE/ SFP

2 GE / SFP

2 GE / SFP

    SFP      

Performance

35Mbps

50 Mbps

100 Mbps

200 Mbps

500 Mbps

Gbps

Feature 4221(new)

4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Upgradable to 75 Mbps

Upgradable to 100 Mbps

Upgradable to 300 Mbps

Upgradable to 400 Mbps

Upgradeable to 1 Gbps

Upgradable to 2 Gbps

Management port

  1 GE (Integrated Out of Band)

Network Interface Modules (NIM)

2 2 2 3 3 3

Enhanced Services Module (SM-X)

N/A N/A single-wide

2 single- or1 double-wide

N/A 2 single- or double-wide

Integrated Services Card (ISC) slots

N/A 1 1 1 1 1

(PVDM 4)

(PVDM 4)

(PVDM 4)

(PVDM 4)

(PVDM 4)

USB ports (type A)

1 1 1 2 2 2

Default/max Flash

8 GB 4 GB / 8 GB

4 GB / 16 GB

4 GB / 16 GB

8 GB / 32 GB

8 GB / 32 GB

Default/max DRAM

4 GB 4 GB / 8 GB

4 GB / 16 GB

4 GB / 16 GB

4 GB / 16 GB

4 GB / 16 GB

Power supply

Extern External: AC,

Internal: AC,

Internal: AC,

Internal: AC,

Internal: AC,

Feature 4221(new)

4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

type al: AC PoE PoE PoE or DC

PoE or DC

PoE or DC

Redundant power supply

No No No No Yes Yes

Internal RPS

Internal RPS

Module online insertion and removal (OIR)

No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Server virtualization platform (UCS E-Series) and Network Compute Engine (NCE)

N/A   2-core single-wide, 2-core NCE

2 core single-wide, 2-core NCE

  2-core single-wide, 2-core NCE

4-core NCE

4-core single-wide, 4-core NCE

4 core single-wide, 4-core NCE

4-core NCE

4-core single-wide, 4-core NCE

    4 core double-wide,

  4-core double-wide,

    6 core double-wide,

  6-core double-wide,

Feature 4221(new)

4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

    8 core double-wide

  8-core double-wide

Advanced Security

4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Zone-based firewall and NAT services

VRF-Aware Firewall and Network Address Translation (NAT)

Hardware VPN acceleration(DES, 3DES, AES)

No

IPSEC VPN services

FlexVPN, Easy VPN remote server, Enhanced Easy VPN, Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN),

Group Encrypted Transport VPN (GET VPN), V3PN, MPLS VPN

SSL VPN No

Intrusion prevention

Yes (Snort for Singnature Based and FirePower as nGIPS)

Anomaly Detection and Machine Learning

Cisco Self Learning Networks (SLN)

Feature 4221(new)

4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Network foundation protection

ACL, FPM, control plan protection, control plane policing (CoPP), QoS, role-based CLI access, source-based RTBH, uRPF, SSHv2

Cisco Umbrella Branch Support

Yes

Cisco Cloud Web Security

Yes

Identity-based networking

No No No No No No

Cisco TrustSec

Security Group Tag Exchange Protocol (SXP), SGT over GETVPN

SGT over IPSEC

SGT over DMVPN

SGT-based ZBFW

Port/Layer 3 interface/IP/subnet-to-SGT mapping

SGT export in Flexible NetFlow

Unified Communications

4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Feature 4221(new)

4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Local conferencing

N/A Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Digital signal processor support

N/A PVDM4

PVDM4

PVDM4

PVDM4 PVDM4

Cisco Unified Survivable Remote Site

N/A Up to 50

Up to 100

Up to 750

Up to 1200

Up to 2000

Telephony support

Cisco Unified Communications

N/A Up to 50

Up to 100

Up to 250

Up to 350

Up to 450

Manager Express support

Cisco Unity Express

N/A Use Cisco Unity Connection on UCSE

Use Cisco Unity Connection on UCSE

Use Cisco Unity Connection on UCSE

Use Cisco Unity Connection on UCSE

Use Cisco Unity Connection on UCSE

(NM, SM, or ISM)

Cisco N/A 100 400 1000 3000 6000

Feature 4221(new)

4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Unified Border Element (CUBE)

(SIP/H.323 sessions)

nano Cisco Unified Border Element (nanoCUBE)

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

(sessions)

Digital voice and video (T1/E1 channels)

N/A Up to 240

Up to 360

Up to 720

Up to 720

Up to 1200

Analog/BRI voice

N/A Up to 8 ports (FXS, FXO, E/M, BRi)

Up to 12 ports (FXS, FXO, E/M, BRi)

Up to 20 ports (FXS, FXO, E/M, BRi)

Up to 12 ports (FXS, FXO, E/M, BRi)

Up to 20 ports (FXS, FXO, E/M, BRi)

Routing and Multicast

4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

IPv4 RIP RIP RIP RIP RIP RIP

Feature 4221(new)

4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

routing protocols

v1/v2, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, PBR, PfR

v1/v2, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, PBR, PfR

v1/v2, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, PBR, PfR

v1/v2, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, PBR, PfR

v1/v2, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, PBR, PfR

v1/v2, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, PBR, PfR

Multicast routing protocols

PIM-SM, mroute (static route), and MLD

PIM-SM, mroute (static route), and MLD

PIM-SM, mroute (static route), and MLD

PIM-SM, mroute (static route), and MLD

PIM-SM, mroute (static route), and MLD

PIM-SM, mroute (static route), and MLD

IPv6 routing protocols

EIGRP, RIP, OSPFv3, IS-IS,

EIGRP, RIP, OSPFv3, IS-IS,

EIGRP, RIP, OSPFv3, IS-IS,

EIGRP, RIP, OSPFv3, IS-IS,

EIGRP, RIP, OSPFv3, IS-IS,

EIGRP, RIP, OSPFv3, IS-IS,

BGP and PBR

BGP and PBR

BGP and PBR

BGP and PBR

BGP and PBR

BGP and PBR

Wireless LAN

4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Integrated 802.11 b/g/n access point

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Integrated 802.11

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Feature 4221(new)

4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

a/b/g/n access point

Unified and autonomous mode

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

RP-TNC connectors for field-replaceable

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

optional high-gain antennas

Diversity (dual antennas)

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Wireless LAN controller module

N/A Available on UCS E-Series

Available on UCS E-Series

Available on UCS E-Series

Available on UCS E-Series

Available on UCS E-Series

Wireless WAN

4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

3G /4G LTE cellular

Yes

Cat 6 LTE Advanced

Yes†

Feature 4221(new)

4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

GPS Support

Yes

Indoor Antenna

Yes (Various antenna using 2 x TNC connectors supporting MIMO)

Outdoor antennas

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Integrated Switching

4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Maximum switched Ethernet ports

2 x 8 16 40 72 24 72

Maximum switched Ethernet LAN ports with PoE

0 16 40 72 24 72

PoE support (wattage)

N/A 120 W 250 W 500 W 250 W 500 W

without PoE boost

(with optional power supply redundancy)

PoE support (wattage)

N/A 260 W 500 W 950 W 530 W 990 W

Feature 4221(new)

4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

with PoE boost

(no power supply redundancy)

EtherSwitch Service Module type (width)

N/A N/A single 2 single or 1 double

N/A 2 single or 1 double

Application Services

  4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Intelligent Path Control

PfR PfR PfR PfR PfR PfR

Network Contention Control

QoS, HQoS

QoS, HQoS

QoS, HQoS

QoS, HQoS

QoS, HQoS

QoS, HQoS

Application Visibility

NBAR v2

NBAR v2

NBAR v2

NBAR v2

NBAR v2

NBAR v2

WAN Optimization

N/A ISR-WAAS

ISR-WAAS,

ISR-WAAS,

ISR-WAAS

ISR-WAAS,

vWAAS on UCS E-Series

vWAAS on UCS E-Series

vWAAS on UCS E-Series

Akamai Connect

N/A Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Feature 4221(new)

4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) with Enterprise Module

† With CAT6 LTE Advanced theoretical DL speed of 300 Mbps, with 2 NIM slots ISR4221 and ISR4321, customer may need the performance license to maximize CAT6 LTE Advanced theoretical full potential capability with 2 NIM CAT6 LTE Advanced slots depending on specific carrier SP provisioning capability & capacity.Reference from

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/routers/4000-series-integrated-services-routers-isr/models-comparison.html

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