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Cisco 3800 Series

Based on 20 years of innovation, Cisco 3800 Integrated Services Routers extend
Cisco's leadership in multiservice routing by providing customers with unparalleled
network agility, performance, and intelligence. The Cisco 3800 Series is the flagship
platform in a portfolio of next-generation routers that integrate advanced
technologies, adaptive services, and secure enterprise communications.
These new routers offer the performance and reliable packet delivery necessary
to deliver mission-critical network capabilities efficiently, including real-time
applications such as Voice over IP (VoIP), business video, and collaborative
communications. Architectural enhancements include embedded security
processing, significant platform performance and memory improvements, and new
high-density interface types. These design achievements complement the Cisco
IOS Software features and superior investment protection that this platform inherits
from the Cisco 3700 Series.
The Cisco 3800 Series, comprised of the Cisco 3825 and Cisco 3845, serves as
a catalyst for midsize organizations and enterprise branch offices that want to
gracefully scale their enterprise edges and take advantage of converged business
services, while minimizing the cost and complexity of network upgrades.
Benefits and Advantages
Enhanced Architecture
The Cisco 3800 Series offers two modular
platforms optimized for the secure delivery of
concurrent voice, video, and data . The integrated
services architecture of the Cisco 3800 Series
builds on the highly successful Cisco 3700 Series
design, and adds embedded security and voice
processing to a highly modular system that is
optimized for rapid deployment of intelligent
network services and converged communications .
The Cisco 3800 Series supports the bandwidth
requirements for multiple Fast Ethernet interfaces
per slot, time-division multiplexing (TDM)
interconnections, and fully integrated power
distribution to modules supporting 802 . 3 af Power
over Ethernet (PoE), while supporting the existing
portfolio of modular interfaces .
Integrated Switching
With support for up to 112 ports of integrated
switching with inline power, the Cisco 3800 Series
offers an excellent platform for combining two of
the most common components of any network
infrastructure . The Cisco 3800 Series supports the
16-, 24-, and 48-port Cisco EtherSwitch ® Service
Network Modules which adhere to the 802 . 3 af (PoE)
standard . When partnered with the optional internal
power supply upgrade, the EtherSwitch Service
Network Modules and high-density WAN interface
cards (HWICs) power any 802 . 3 af compliant device
through their integrated switch ports .
Investment Protection and Versatility
The Cisco 3800 Series provides significant
additional value compared to prior generations of
Cisco routers at similar price points by offering up
to three times the performance, new embedded
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