Spotlight

Cisco Industrial Wireless 3700 Series

Customers looking for access points for outdoor or industrial use cases should look no further - the Industrial Wireless 3700 Series access points provide a great mix of performance, functionality, and management functionality:

• Designed for extreme indoor and outdoor environments (-50 to +75°C)
• Wireless Mesh compatible
• Compact design
• 802.11ac Wave 1 capable, 4 x 4 MIMO
• DC and PoE power options
• PoE out port (use cases include IP cameras, phones, bridging, or another AP)
• Pole, panel and wall mounting capabilities

Industrial Wireless 3700 Series access points are suitable for oil and gas, mining, manufacturing, and transportation applications as well as other extreme indoor or outdoor environments.

To learn more about the 3700 Series Industrial access points, or any Cisco product, please contact us.

Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers

Many of our clients have large ISR G1 or G2 deployments that are approaching end of life. Cisco's new ISR lineup is now available and consists of 5 models which are direct replacements for the ISR G2 products at a comparable price point. The 4000 Series ISRs boast 4-10 times the performance of a comparable ISR G2.

Some features of the new 4000 Series ISRs include:

• Performance from 50Mbps to 2Gbps
• On-demand performance upgrade license - minimize truck rolls
• Runs on the proven IOS-XE operating system
• Embedded IWAN
• Available with software bundles or Cisco ONE for WAN

Here is an overview of the specifications, and the suggested ISR migration paths from both G1 and G2 products:

	Cisco 4321	Cisco 4331	Cisco 4351	Cisco 4431	Cisco 4451
Form Factor	1 RU Desktop	1 RU	2RU	1RU	2RU
Performance	50 Mbps upgradable to 100Mbps	100 Mbps upgradable to 300Mbps	200 Mbps upgradable to 400Mbps	500 Mbps upgradable to 1Gbps	1 Gbps upgradable to 2 Gbps
WAN Ports	1GE, 1GE/SFP	1GE, 1GE/SFP, 1SFP	3GE/SFP	4GE/SFP	4GE/SFP
Network Interface Modules	2	2	3	3	3
SRST Support	Up to 50 phones	Up to 100 phones	Up to 750 phones	Up to 1200 phones	Up to 2000 phones
Enhanced Services Modules	N/A	1 Single Wide	2 Single or 1 Double Wide	N/A	2 Single or 1 Double Wide
Redundant Power	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Migrate from ISR G1	1841, 1861, 2801	2801, 2811, 2821, 2851	N/A	3825, 3845	N/A
Migrate from ISR G2	1921, 1941, 2901	2911, 2921	2951	3925, 3945	3925E, 3945E

To learn more about the 4000 Series ISR, or any Cisco product, please contact us.

Solarwinds Orion NPM

Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is Solarwinds' flagship network management and monitoring software solution - powerful yet easy to use. Give your operations team a fighting chance by enabling them to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance problems and outages.

• Real-time network performance stats for any SNMP-enabled device
• Intelligent network alerting
• Integrated syslog
• Automated network discovery
• Robust reporting engine

You can enhance a new or existing Orion deployment by adding additional modules for added functionality. Some of our favorites include:

• Network Configuration Manager - backup, manage, automate and standardize your network configurations
• NetFlow Traffic Analyzer - monitor traffic flows and bandwidth consumption on NetFlow enabled devices
• VoIP & Network Quality Manager - monitor QoS metrics and WAN performance on Cisco devices using IP SLA

To learn more about Solarwinds NCM, or any Solarwinds product, please contact us.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Family of next-generation firewalls

The Cisco ASA 5500-X series of next-generation firewalls combine a comprehensive set of network security services with the most deployed stateful inspection firewall in the industry. Cisco has leveraged its acquisition of SourceFire to provide robust next-generation security features with FirePOWER Services while improving features already familiar to the ASA family:

• Wide range of sizes and form factors
• On-prem and in-cloud web security options
• Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System
• Advanced Malware Protection
• Application Visibility and Control supporting over 4000 applications
• AnyConnect remote access

With the recent additions of the 5506-X and 5508-X models, Cisco has a next-generation firewall available for data centres and branch offices of all sizes.

To learn more about the ASA 5500-X family, or any Cisco product, please contact us.