Cisco Switches and Routers

Cisco Systems Network Infrastructure

A resilient, integrated and adaptive network infrastructure is a critical component of today's communications systems.

Communications infrastructure products include routing, switching and other infrastructure products such as voice gateways, switches with inline power and voice servers for media processing software.

Cisco's vision of the Intelligent Information Network is based on adding intelligence to the network, providing a systems-level approach to integration and delivering policies that enable these systems to address your specific business processes.

For example, Cisco RSVP Agent allows Cisco Integrated Services Routers to intelligently exchange information with Cisco Unified Communications Manager to improve quality of service and increase network flexibility.

This network provides a secure foundation optimized for data, wireless and IP Communications and includes the ability to support IP-to-IP gateways for easy and cost-effective connectivity between independent voice-over-IP (VoIP) networks and analog phone gateways using your existing phone equipment.

See below how Communications Infrastructure products fit in the Cisco Unified Communications System.

Cisco Systems Catalyst Switches

In today’s increasingly complex business environments, the network is facing new challenges and must offer more services than ever.

The Right Network Switch Can Maximize Business Value

The network switches in the Cisco Catalyst Series offer some of the industry’s most intelligent and advanced technologies. These switches are designed to extend the value of network throughout the infrastructure. These innovative network switches are part of a continuously expanding portfolio of offerings that can strengthen and simplify network performance, and help deliver the greatest investment protection available. Available in modular, stackable and stand-alone configurations, these network switches can be used anywhere they are needed in the network.

The Cisco network switch portfolio provides enhanced functionality and intelligence to help organizations automate complex tasks while supporting new application and business requirements.

Cisco Systems ASR 1000 Series Routers

DataVox customers are increasingly deploying integrated services routers, or sophisticated network routers that can deliver voice, video, data and Internet access, wireless, and other applications.

The Cisco ASR 1000 Series provides a significant enhanced value compared to prior generations of Cisco midrange routing solutions by providing more than tenfold performance improvement with services running. Additionally, the routers have hardware and software redundancy, as well as an industry-leading high-availability design.



The Cisco ASR 1000 Series delivers multiple services embedded in the Cisco QuantumFlow Processor at wire speeds of up to 10 Gbps. The services supported on the Cisco Packet QuantumFlow Processor include security services (for example, encryption and firewall), quality of service (QoS), Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR), Cisco IOS® Flexible Packet Matching, broadband aggregation, and session border controller, among others.

With the separation of the control and data planes in the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router architecture, software redundancy (on the Cisco ASR 1002 and 1004 models) and hardware redundancy (on the Cisco ASR 1006 Router) are provided. Additionally, the modular Cisco IOS XE Software that is introduced with the Cisco ASR 1000 Series facilitates In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU).

From a price-to-performance perspective, the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router solution fits well between the Cisco 7200 and Cisco 7300 Series and the Cisco 7600 and Cisco Catalyst® 6000 Series Routers, thus dramatically enhancing the Cisco midrange routing portfolio.

Cisco Network Security

DataVox can help you lower your operating costs, shorten implementation times and reduce mitigating security threats using the Cisco Lifecycle Services approach. DataVox provides a broad portfolio of Security Services that address all aspects of deploying, operating, and optimizing your network.

DataVox & Cisco: Building the Self-Defending Network

The Cisco Self-Defending Network is a strategic systems approach to security that uses the network to identify, prevent, and adapt to threats from internal and external sources. A Self-Defending Network simplifies the security environment through tight integration, comprehensive security, increased end-to-end visibility, and improved total cost of ownership. All components of the network—the secure network platform, advanced services and technologies, and operational management and policy control—play a part in securing the networked environment.



Defense at Its Core

Integration, collaboration, and adaptability are core capabilities of the Self-Defending Network and are unique to Cisco. With an unmatched breadth and depth of offerings and security expertise, only Cisco can offer such a network-based, system approach.

•  Integration of security throughout the existing infrastructure—built-in, not added on. Every element in the network acts as a point of defense.
• Collaboration between network and security components throughout the network. Security becomes a system involving cooperation between security-aware endpoints, network elements, and policy enforcement.
• Adaptability of the network to intelligently evolve and adapt to emerging threats. Examples include innovative behavioral methods that automatically recognize new types of threats as they arise, mutual awareness among and between security services and network intelligence for more proactive response, and broad recognition capabilities to address threats at multiple layers of the network.