San Jose, California-based Cisco Systems Inc has unveiled three routers: the Cisco 1004 and Cisco 1005, both part of the low-end Cisco 1000 series of multiprotocol access products; and the Cisco 4700, an addition to the 4000 series of mid-range router products. The 1004 and 1005 routers are intended for small remote offices requiring part- […]
San Jose, California-based Cisco Systems Inc has unveiled three routers: the Cisco 1004 and Cisco 1005, both part of the low-end Cisco 1000 series of multiprotocol access products; and the Cisco 4700, an addition to the 4000 series of mid-range router products. The 1004 and 1005 routers are intended for small remote offices requiring part- or full-time communications to central site locations, or Internet access. The 1004 is geared to connecting small remote Ethernet local networks to wide area networks using ISDN, and features an ISDN Basic Rate Interface with an integrated Network Termination 1 device. The 1005 is a synchronous serial router that connects small, remote Ethernet local networks to wide area networks using leased lines, Frame Relay, Switched Multimegabit Data Service, SMDS, Switched-56 and X.25, said the company. The R-series RISC-based 4700, when used in combination with Cisco’s Asynchronous Transfer Mode Network Processor Module (CI No 2,715), is optimised for Asynchronous Mode backbone access, IBM Data-Link Switching internetworking and routing of native Advanced Peer-to-Peer traffic, said Cisco. It adds that it is also suited as a central site or backbone router to handle SNA networking or other multiprotocol traffic when used as a DLSw Data-Link Switching router or border peer, or as an Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking node. Using Cisco’s Down Stream PU Concentration function, the 4700 can also be used as a concentrator for hundreds of SNA devices. The 1004 is shipping in North America now, starting from $1,600. The 1005 will begin shipping in October 1995 to North America and Europe, and worldwide by December; it will list for from $1,400. The 4700 is out now, costing from $10,200 to $11,700, depending on the Cisco Internetworking Operating System feature set the user decides on.
