Cisco, 3Com fire up new WAN routers

摘要

Cisco this week is scheduled to announce a complete refresh of its enterprise WAN access routers, promising customers a menu of faster and more reliable hardware for running security and VoIP services at the WAN edge. Cisco's new 1800, 2800 and 3800 Integrated Service Routers will combine VoIP, VPN, firewall and intrusion-detec-tion system (IDS) support. Cus-tomers today have to add these capabilities with modules and IOS software upgrades.The boxes will replace current 1700, 2600 and 3700 offerings and deliver more services with better performance in one platform, Cisco says.