subject: Choosing A Cisco Router [print this page] There is no shortage of hardware manufacturers who'll claim to have the perfect solution and products for your IT requirements. However, don't be too quickly impressed, or quick to make a purchasing decision, because doing anything too quickly without thorough research could be a costly mistake, leaving you with equipment that just isn't right for your specific needs and a large bill to replace. Never more so is care and consideration required when choosing a WAN - the decision of the entire business could rest on it.
You'll be reassured then to hear about the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers, a series of routers that has been developed by an industry leader with evolving technology that is not just revolutionary but has been developed with the Cisco philosophy of being customer focused in dealing with many differing IT needs and changing requirements. The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers sets new industry standards and will shape the market and scalability of embedded services, connected to secure, resilient hardware and software architecture.
Today's aggressive business strategy is to achieve growth through mergers and acquisitions, as well as organically. This leaves the IT manager needing to be ever more flexible and versatile when it comes to managing separate IT systems in remote corners of the globe.
On top of this you have 24/7 demand of a mobile workforce that needs access to the network resources from everywhere. New applications are used throughout the global network because Web 2.0, voice, video, interactivity, online collaboration and real-time responsiveness put yet more pressure on current network infrastructure. The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers readily supplies the stressed out IT manager with lots of useful, arguably crucial features. Among them increased WAN edge infrastructure performance and a highly available WAN infrastructure, full WAN security for database protection and compliance and consistent service delivery with application intelligence.
The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers offer a secure, intelligent, robust and flexible routing solution that is future-proof and completely without compromise.
