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The Benifts of CISCO 1841 Router to the Small Buisness Sector

Cisco's 1841 router was created with the smaller branch office in mind. This router is a low-end device making the 1841 as one of the cheaper models manufactured by Cisco and sold buy NetworkEquipment.net . The 1841 Cisco router has low failure rates and is enterprise class hardware. Typical of Cisco products, this router has openings for standard Cisco cards offering network interfaces and features while running on the IOS software that many of our clients take advantage of. With such a comfort level in the IT community for Cisco products and its IOS, setup time and maintenance usually have a minimal learning curve compared to competing manufacturers and here at NetworkEquipment we can help assist in deploying this router for your company . The 1841 router fits in rack mounts making it suitable for data closet installation.

The 1841 routers come with three-speed fans controlled by a thermostat in the chassis. For noise abatement and extended life, fan speeds are variable depending on the cooling needs. The 1841 routers come with internal clocks, but are dependent on a non-replaceable battery.

For VoIP implementations a separate appliance will be needed since the 1841 router capabilities do not include VoIP or voice even though it has 2 WICs. A single power supply is a drawback, but for most implementations this means no redundant power supply. For installations of 300 users or less, the Cisco 1841 meets the needs of a field office. It is overkill for a job of less than 20 nodes where a smaller router or a PIX firewall is recommended and NetworkEquipment.net  can also assist in providing the PIX units to install at your buisness .

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Brian Mcneill
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NetworkEquipment.net
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Juniper versus Cisco...thoughts?

We're splitting our HQ in two, moving about 40 folks over to a new location. We have an Avaya phone system and will be deploying IP phones at the new site over a pair of bonded point-to-point T1's.

Go with Cisco, the IOS is basically a stripped down version of Cisco and offers less configuration. I work in a data centre and almost all our kit is Cisco based, we use PIX firewalls for security and tend to tread away from Juniper. Cisco will probably end up buying them out anyway, networking rivalry is pretty week with a manopoly like Cisco.

Having said all this, to be honest I dont have much experience of juniper, I've worked with a M series router and remember it being Cisco for newbiews, I also have some vague memory of ACL's being weird (could be why thefirewalls are highly recommened). What I do know is that the IOS isn't as strong and was extremely easy to learn following Cisco experience, stick to what you know anyway, thats my vague advice.

If you can ever afford it and have a big enough network to facilitate it the Cisco 6500's are the best kit I've ever worked with, simply amazing!

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