Cisco 3900 Series, 2900 Series, and 1900 Series Software Configuration Guide - Overview of the Hardware and Software [Cisco 1900 Series Integrated Services Routers]

Table Of Contents

Overview of the Hardware and Software

New Features in this Release

New Features by Platform

New Slots

New Slots and Ports by Platform

Cisco 3900 Series ISRs

Cisco 2900 Series ISRs

Cisco 1900 Series ISRs

Common Ports

Licensing

Getting Started

Overview of the Hardware and Software

The Cisco 3900 series, 2900 series, and 1900 series integrated services routers (ISRs) offer secure, wire-speed delivery of concurrent data, voice, and video services. The modular design of these routers provides maximum flexibility, allowing you to configure your router to meet evolving needs.

The routers offer features such as hardware-based virtual private network (VPN) encryption acceleration, intrusion-protection and firewall functions, and optional integrated call processing and voice mail. A wide variety of legacy network modules and interfaces, service modules (SMs), internal services modules (ISMs), next-generation packet voice/data modules (PVDM3), Services Performance Engines (SPEs), high-density interfaces for a wide range of connectivity requirements, and sufficient performance and slot density for future network expansion requirements and advanced applications are available.

Power-saving hardware and software features are incorporated throughout the series. These routers provide access to the multi-gigabit fabric, which provides a connection between switch ports without using up external ports. The logical Gigabit Ethernet (GE) interface on the router connects external and internal modules through the backplane for LAN and WAN switching. Software feature upgrades are provided through software licensing.

The following sections describe the Cisco 3900 series, 2900 series, and 1900 series ISRs:

•New Features in this Release

•New Features by Platform

•New Slots

•New Slots and Ports by Platform

•Common Ports

•Licensing

•Getting Started

New Features in this Release

New features in this release are described in Table 1.

Table 1 New Features

Feature

Description

Services Performance Engine

SPEs¹ are modular motherboards on Cisco 3900 series ISRs. The SPE houses PVDM3 slots, system memory slots, and the ISM slot. The SPE provides a modular approach to system upgrades. You simply slide out the SPE from the router to replace internal modules, or upgrade the SPE to improve router performance. See Cisco 2900 series and 3900 series Integrated Services Routers Hardware Installation Guide for instructions.

Cryptographic Engine Accelerator

Cisco 3900 series routers with either Services Performance Engine 200 or Services Performance Engine 250 have an onboard cryptographic accelerator that is shared between SSLVPN and IPSec. By default, acceleration of SSL is disabled so IPSec performance is maximized.

See the "Configuring Security Features" section in this guide for information about enabling the SSLVPN feature.

USB Console

Cisco 3900 series, 2900 series, and 1900 series ISRs provide an additional mechanism for configuring the system through a USB² serial console port. The traditional RJ-45 serial console port is also available.

Power Management

Some modules and interface cards that are inserted in new slots provide hardware and software power management features described below:

•High efficiency AC power supplies

•Electrical components with built-in power saving features, such as RAM select and clock gating

•Ability to disable unused clocks to modules and peripherals

•Ability to power down unused modules and put peripherals into a reset state, put front panel ports and unused internal components in a shutdown or reset state

Advanced Capability CompactFlash

Cisco 3900 series, 2900 series, and 1900 series ISRs use Advanced Capability CF³ memory to store the system image, configuration files, and some software data files.

SFP/Gigabit Ethernet Port

Cisco 2921, Cisco 2951 and Cisco 3900 Series routers have an SFP/Gigabit Ethernet port that supports copper and fiber concurrent connections. Media can be configured for failover redundancy when the network goes down. For more information, see the "Configuring Backup Data Lines and Remote Management" section.

New Modules and Interface Cards

Cisco 3900 series, 2900 series, and 1900 series ISRs introduce the following new modules and interface cards, which are inserted in the following new router slots:

•EHWIC

•PVDM3

•ISM

•SM

Note See the router's product page at Cisco.com for a complete list of supported modules and interfaces.

Multi-Gigabit Fabric Communication

Cisco 3900 series, 2900 series, and 1900 series ISRs use a MGF⁴ for the new modules and interface cards to inter-communicate on the router. Legacy modules that support Cisco HIMI⁵ also support MGF to inter-communicate on the router. Next generation module drivers integrate with the MGF to perform port configurations, configure packet flow, and control traffic buffering. All configurations are performed from the module-side, which may or may not lead to changes on the MGF. For more information, see the "Configuring Multi-Gigabit Fabric Communication" section.

Integrated Application Services Features

Cisco 3900 series, 2900 series, and 1900 series ISRs offer integrated security features and voice features.

•See the "Configuring Security Features" section

•See the "Unified Communications on Cisco Integrated Services Routers" section

¹SPE = Services Performance Engine

²USB = universal serial bus

³CF = CompactFlash

⁴MGF = multi-gigabit fabric

⁵HIMI = High-Speed Intrachassis Module Interconnect

New Features by Platform

Table 2 shows new feature support by platform.

Table 2 New Features in this Release by Platform

Features

1941

1941W

2901

2911

2921

2951

3925

3925E

3945

3945E

Services Performance Engine

N

N

N

N

N

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Cryptographic Engine Acceleration

N

N

N

N

N

N

Y¹

Y

Y²

Y

USB Serial Console

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Power Management

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

New Module and Interface Card Features

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Advanced Capability CompactFlash

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

SFP/Gigabit Ethernet Port

N

N

N

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Multi-Gigabit Fabric Communication

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Integrated Application Services

Y³

Y⁴

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

¹Must have Services Performance Engine 200 installed in the router.

²Must have Services Performance Engine 250 installed in the router.

³Does not support Voice application services.

⁴Does not support Voice application services. Includes embedded wireless access point that supports Cisco Unified Wireless Architecture.

New Slots

Cisco 3900 series, 2900 series, and 1900 series ISRs have introduced new slots on the chassis. The first column in Table 3 lists the new slot names. The second column lists the corresponding old slot names. Modules previously inserted in the old slots now insert in the new slots with the help of an adapter card.

For instance, network modules (NMs), enhanced network modules (NMEs), and extension voice modules (EVMs) use an adapter, or carrier card, to insert into the SM slot. See your router's hardware installation guide for adapter information.

Table 3 New Slot Names and Old Slot Names

New Slot Names

Old Slot Names

EHWIC

HWIC,HWIC-DW, WIC, VWIC, VIC

ISM

AIM¹

PVDM3

PVDM

SM

NM, NME, EVM

SPE²

—

¹AIM is not supported in this release. See your hardware installation guide for more information.

²The SPE is available only on the Cisco 3900 series ISRs.

New Slots and Ports by Platform

This section provides the type and number of the slots and ports available in the Cisco 3900 series, 2900 series, and 1900 series ISRs.

•Cisco 3900 Series ISRs

•Cisco 2900 Series ISRs

•Cisco 1900 Series ISRs

Cisco 3900 Series ISRs

Table 4 lists the slots and ports available on Cisco 3900 series routers.

To view the installation guide, see the following URL
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/access/2900/hardware/installation/guide/Hardware_Installation_Guide.html

Table 4 Cisco 3900 Series Routers

Router

EHWIC

SM

Dbl-Wide SM

ISM

PVDM3

CF

GE (RJ-45)/ SFP ports

SPE

Cisco 3945

4

4

1

1

4

2

3¹

1

Cisco 3945E

3

4

1

0

3

2

4²

1

Cisco 3925

4

2

1

1

4

2

3³

1

Cisco 3925E

3

2

1

0

3

2

4⁴

1

¹One RJ-45 GE + two combo GE/SFPs.

²Four RJ-45 GE, or three RJ-45 GE + one combo GE/SFP, or two RJ-45 GE + two combo GE/SFP.

³One RJ-45 GE + two combo GE/SFPs, or three RJ-45 GEs.

⁴Four RJ-45 GE, or three RJ-45 GE + one combo GE/SFP, or two RJ-45 GE + two combo GE/SFP.

Cisco 2900 Series ISRs

Table 5 lists the slots and ports available on Cisco 2900 series routers.

To view the installation guide, see the following URL
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/access/2900/hardware/installation/guide/Hardware_Installation_Guide.html

Table 5 Cisco 2900 Series Routers

Router

EHWIC

SM

Dbl-Wide SM

ISM

PVDM3

CF

GE (RJ-45) ports

GE (RJ-45)/ SFP ports

Cisco 2951

4

2

2

1

3

2

2

1

Cisco 2921

4

1

1

1

3

2

2

1

Cisco 2911

4

1

1

1

2

2

3

0

Cisco 2901

4

0

0

1

2

2

3

0

Cisco 1900 Series ISRs

Table 6 lists the slots and ports available on Cisco 1900 series routers.

To view the installation guide, see the following URL
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/access/1900/hardware/installation/guide/1900_HIG.html

Table 6 Cisco 1900 Series ISR Routers

Router

EHWIC¹

Dbl-Wide EHWIC

SM

Dbl-Wide SM

ISM

PVDM3

WLAN

CF

GE (RJ-45) ports

Cisco 1941

2

1

0

0

1

0

0

2

2

Cisco 1941W

2

1

0

0

0

0

1

2

2

¹One of the two EWHIC slots is adouble-wide EWHIC slot,giving the appearance of three EWHIC slots.

Common Ports

The following ports are common among Cisco 3900 series, 2900 series, and 1900 series routers:

•Gigabit Ethernet RJ45—Ports available through an RJ45 connector.

•Gigabit Ethernet RJ45/SFP—Ports available through RJ45- SFP connectors. Connection supports fail-over if the secondary connection goes down.

•RS232 Aux—Supports modem control lines and remote administration for box-to-box redundancy applications.

•RS232 Serial Console—Supports modem control lines and remote administration of the router with the proprietary cable shipped in the box.

•Type A USB 2.0—Supports USB-based flash memory sticks, security tokens, and USB-compliant devices.

•Type B mini-port USB Serial Console—Supports modem control lines and remote administration of the router using a type B USB-compliant cable.

Licensing

Cisco 3900 series, 2900 series, and 1900 series ISRs support Cisco IOS software entitlement. Your router is shipped with the software image and the corresponding permanent licenses for the technology packages and features that you specified preinstalled. You do not need to activate or register the software prior to use. If you need to upgrade or install a new technology package or feature see Software Activation on Integrated Services Router,

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/access/sw_activation/SA_on_ISR.html.

Getting Started

See the router-specific hardware installation guide to install the router in an appropriate location. Connect the router with the appropriate cables. Supply power to the router and perform the initial software configuration using Cisco Configuration Professional Express. After the initial configuration is completed, perform the following steps:

Step 1 Follow instructions in the "Basic Router Configuration" section to perform additional router configurations.

Step 2 (Optional) If you are setting up the Cisco 1941W ISR, follow instructions in the "Configuring the Wireless Device" section to configure the embedded wireless device on the router.

Step 3 Follow instructions in the "Configuring Security Features" section to configure security features on the router.

Step 4 Follow instructions in the "Unified Communications on Cisco Integrated Services Routers" section to configure Voice features on the router.

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