Table of Contents

Product Overview
Key Features and Benefits

Flexibility
Integrated Voice and Data Networking
Modular Architecture
Robust Security

Device Authentication and Key Management

User Authentication
VPN Tunneling
Management
Ease of Use and Installation
Quality of Service (QoS)
Reliability and Scalability
Network Device Integration

Specifications

Cisco IOS Software Feature Sets

Ordering Information

Additional Cisco 1700 Series Products and Part Numbers

Cisco 1750 — Modular Access Router

Product Overview

Building an effective access solution for a small or medium-size business or a small branch office means implementing network equipment with three key criteria:

• Flexibility to adapt to changing requirements and growth

• Investment protection with features and performance to support new WAN services such as multiservice voice/data integration, virtual private networks (VPNs), and broadband access today or in the future

• Integration of multiple network functions, including an optional firewall and data service unit/channel service unit (DSU/CSU) to simplify deployment and management

The Cisco 1750 modular access router delivers these capabilities with the power of Cisco IOS software in a modular integrated access solution designed for small branch offices and small and medium businesses. The Cisco 1750 provides a cost-effective solution to support a comprehensive array of applications, including:

• Secure Internet, intranet, and extranet access with optional integrated firewall

• Multiservice voice/fax/data integration

• VPN access

• Broadband services including xDSL and cable

The Cisco 1750 features a modular architecture that enables users to cost-effectively upgrade or add WAN and voice interfaces to accommodate changing requirements and growth. Integrated network services and functions, including an optional firewall, CSU/DSU, and VPN features, reduce the complexity of deploying and managing branch office solutions. Most important, the Cisco 1750 offers investment protection with a RISC architecture and features to support new technologies and applications, including voice/fax/data integration and VPNs, when users are ready to deploy them.

The Cisco 1750 is available in three models that enable users to easily tailor an access solution to suit their branch office requirements today and in the future:

• Cisco 1750 — The most basic model available, this unit provides everything a small branch office needs for data networking now, with a simple upgrade path to support integrated voice/fax/data applications when needed. A convenient voice upgrade kit is available to provide voice/fax/data support as needed.

• Cisco 1750-2V Multiservice model — This model includes all the features, memory, and DSP needed for immediate support of integrated voice/fax/data applications with up to two analog voice ports. Voice and WAN interface cards are available separately.

• Cisco 1750-4V Multiservice model — This model includes all the features, memory, and DSPs needed to support integrated multiservice voice/fax/data applications immediately with up to four analog voice ports. Voice and WAN interface cards are available separately.

All Cisco 1750 models offer three modular slots for voice and data interface cards, an autosensing 10/100BaseT Ethernet LAN port, a console port, and an auxiliary port. The Cisco 1750 supports the same WAN interface cards as the Cisco 1600, 1720, 2600, and 3600 routers, and the same analog voice interface cards and voice-over-IP technology as the Cisco 2600 and 3600 routers, simplifying sparing and support requirements for customers and partners. The WAN interface cards support a wide range of services, including synchronous and asynchronous serial, Integrated Services Digital Network Basic Rate Interface (ISDN BRI), and serial with DSU/CSU options for primary and backup WAN connectivity. The voice interface cards include support for Foreign Exchange Office (FXO), Foreign Exchange Station (FXS), and Ear & Mouth (E&M). Combined, these interfaces support a comprehensive set of applications, including multiservice voice/fax/data integration, Frame Relay, ISDN BRI, SMDS, X.25, broadband services, VPNs, and more.

Key Features and Benefits

The Cisco 1700 series supports the value of end-to-end Cisco network solutions with the following benefits:

• Flexibility — The modular Cisco 1750 adapts easily to fit the needs of businesses. Interchangeable WAN interface cards enable easy additions or changes in WAN technologies without requiring a forklift upgrade of the entire platform. Modular data and voice slots enable users to tailor data and voice services as needed. With the ability to use the same field-upgradable WAN and voice interface cards across multiple Cisco access router platforms, the Cisco 1750 reduces requirements for spare parts inventory and support training. In addition, the autosensing 10/100BaseT Fast Ethernet port enables easy migration to high-speed local networks.

• Multiservice Access — For businesses that have data networking needs today and want to integrate multiservice data/voice/video/fax capabilities now or in the future, the Cisco 1750 offers a flexible, cost-effective answer. The Cisco 1750 enables network managers to save on long-distance interoffice billing costs and interoperates with next-generation voice-enabled applications such as integrated messaging and Web-based call centers. The Cisco 1750 works with the existing telephone infrastructure — phones, fax machines, key telephone systems (KTS) units, and PBX — minimizing capital costs.

• Lower Cost of Ownership — The Cisco 1750 router provides a complete solution for integrated voice and data access in a single product, eliminating the need to install and maintain a large number of separate devices. You can combine optional functions, including a voice gateway, dynamic firewall, VPN tunnel server, DSU/CSU, ISDN network termination-1 (NT1) device, and more to reduce deployment and management costs. This solution can be managed remotely using network management applications such as CiscoWorks and CiscoView or any SNMP-based management tool.

• Investment Protection — The Cisco 1750 RISC architecture, Cisco IOS software, and modular slots provide solid investment protection to companies that want a platform that offers data connectivity today and an easy migration path to implement services such as multiservice data/voice/video integration, VPNs, and broadband communications in the near future. A slot on the 1700 series motherboard offers the ability to support future hardware-assisted data encryption at T1/E1 speeds.

Flexibility

• Full Cisco IOS support, including multiprotocol routing (IP, IPX, AppleTalk, IBM/SNA) and bridging

  • Provides the industry`s most robust, scalable, and feature-rich internetworking software support using the de facto standard networking software for the Internet and private WANs

  • Part of the Cisco end-to-end network solution

Integrated Voice and Data Networking

• Cisco 1750 router chassis accepts both WAN and voice interface cards

  • Reduces long-distance toll charges by allowing the data network to carry interoffice voice and fax traffic

  • Works with existing handsets, key units, and PBXs, eliminating the need for a costly phone-equipment upgrade

Modular Architecture

• Accepts an array of WAN and voice interface cards

  • Added flexibility and investment protection

• Shares WAN interface cards shared with Cisco 1600, 2600, and 3600 routers

  • Reduced cost of maintaining inventory

  • Lowers training costs for support personnel

  • Protects investments through reuse on various platforms

• Autosensing 10/100 Fast Ethernet

  • Simplifies migration to Fast Ethernet performance in the office

• Expansion Slot on Motherboard

  • Allows expandability to support VPN Module which provides hardware-assisted encryption at full duplex T1/E1 speeds

Robust Security

• Firewall — Cisco Secure Integrated Software (formerly the Cisco IOS Firewall feature set) includes context-based access control for dynamic firewall filtering, denial of service detection and prevention, Java blocking, real-time alerts, and encryption

  • Allows internal users to access the Internet with secure, per-application-based, dynamic access control while preventing unauthorized Internet users from accessing the internal LAN

• IPSec DES and triple DES Support

  • Enables creation of VPNs by providing industry-standard data privacy, integrity, and authenticity as data traverses the Internet or a shared public network

• VPN Module

  • The optional VPN Module for the Cisco 1700 series routers optimizes the platform for virtual private networks (VPNs). The VPN module, which fits in a slot inside the Cisco 1720 or 1750 chassis, encrypts data using the Data Encryption Standard (DES) and triple DES (3DES) algorithms at speeds suitable for a full-duplex T1/E1 serial connection (4 megabits per second [Mbps] for 1514-byte packets). The module, together with the platform, supports as many as 100 encrypted tunnels (400 security associations) for concurrent sessions with mobile users or other sites.

• RISC Processor

  • Enables software-based encryption performance at 512 kbps for VPNs

Device Authentication and Key Management

• IKE, X.509v3 digital certification, and support for certificate enrollment protocol (CEP) with certification authorities (CAs) such as Verisign and Entrust

  • Ensures proper identity and authenticity of devices and data

  • Enables scalability to very large IPSec networks through automated key management

User Authentication

PAP/CHAP, RADIUS, TACACS+

• Supports all leading user identity verification schemes

VPN Tunneling

• IPSec, GRE, L2TP, L2F

  • Choice of standards-based tunneling methods to create VPNs for IP and non-IP traffic

  • Allows any standards-based IPSec or L2TP client to interoperate with Cisco IOS tunneling technologies

  • Fully interoperable with public certificate authorities and IPSec standards-based products

  • Part of the scalable Cisco end-to-end VPN solution portfolio

  • Up to 100 tunnels supported with the optional VPN Module

Management

• Manageable via SNMP (CiscoView, CiscoWorks 2000), Telnet, and console port

  • Allows central monitoring, configuration, and diagnostics for all functions integrated in the Cisco 1720 router, reducing management time and costs

Ease of Use and Installation

• Cisco ConfigMaker, SETUP configuration utility, AutoInstall, color-coded ports/cables for easy set-up, and LED status indicators to simplify monitoring

  • Simplifies and reduces deployment time and costs with graphical LAN/VPN policy configurator; command-line, context-sensitive configuration questions; and straightforward cabling

  • LEDs allows quick diagnostics and troubleshooting

• Network Address Translation and Easy IP

  • Simplifies deployment and reduces Internet access costs

Quality of Service (QoS)

• Supports Committed Access Rate (CAR), Policy Routing, Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ), GTS, RSVP

  • Allocates WAN bandwidth to prioritize applications for improved performance and quality of service

Reliability and Scalability

• Cisco IOS software, dial-on-demand routing, dual-bank Flash memory, scalable routing protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP, and HSRP

  • Improves network reliability and enables scalability to large networks

Network Device Integration

• Integrated router, voice gateway, firewall, encryption, VPN tunnel server, DSU/CSU, and NT1 in a single platform

  • Reduces costs and simplifies management

Specifications

Cisco IOS Software Feature Sets

The Cisco 1750 router supports a choice of Cisco IOS software feature sets with rich data features (Table 17-94: Cisco 1750 Data Software Feature Sets and Memory Requirements for Cisco IOS Release 12.0(5)XQ and 12.0(6)T ) as well as data/voice features (Table 17-96: Cisco 1750 Data and Voice Software Feature Sets and Memory Requirements for Cisco IOS Release 12.0(5)XQ and 12.0(6)T ). Each feature set requires specific amounts of RAM and Flash memory in the product. Starting with Cisco IOS Release 12.0, Base feature sets include some features formerly inPlus: NAT, OSPF, RADIUS, and NHRP.

Plus feature sets contain L2TP, L2F, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), IP Multicast, Frame Relay SVC, RSVP, the NetWare Link Services Protocol (NLSP), AppleTalk SMRP, the Web Cache Control Protocol (WCCP), and the Network Timing Protocol (NTP).

New! Security Software Feature Sets are available to simplify the process of adding security features to the Cisco 1750 platform. These security bundles make it more cost-effective for customers to take advantage of the optional firewall and VPN services that the 1700 offers to insure that customer data and communication is fully protected. The security packages for the Cisco 1700 series include Cisco IOS software images with Firewall and the required memory, with an option for adding the new VPN Module. Customers or partners buying from Cisco will be able to order a Cisco 1720 or Cisco 1750 and then select one of the security packages as an integrated option (instead of having to order software and the required memory in piece parts). Customers buying through distribution will be able to order the security packages as standalone upgrade kits.

Ordering Information

Additional Cisco 1700 Series Products and Part Numbers

See http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/pcat/1720.htm#order

Posted: Wed Sep 27 05:13:55 PDT 2000
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