Read the Latest Cisco 4000 Model ComparisonThe Cisco ISR 4000 platform is modular and upgradable, so you can add new services without changing equipment. It supports multiple application-aware services concurrently while maintaining WAN performance of up to 2 Gbps, even during heavy traffic loads. The backplane architecture supports high-bandwidth, module-to-module communication at speeds up to 10 Gbps. The 4000 Series includes Cisco Trust Anchor Technologies that help mitigate modern cyberattacks by verifying platform integrity and providing protection from counterfeit and unauthorized modification of hardware and software. “With the ISR 4000s, you’re in good hands.”

The Cisco ISR 4000s provide those layers of security protection for your branch offices, with:

IOS zone-based firewall

Snort IPS

Umbrella Branch

Firepower Threat Defense

Stealthwatch Learning Network License

And now Cisco added the new Cisco ISR 4421 into the Cisco 4000 router family.

There are six platforms of Cisco 4000 ISRs: the Cisco 4451, 4431, 4351, 4331, 4321 and 4221 ISRs.

The ISR 4221 is mightier than the ISR G2, vis-à-vis ISR 1921 and 1941. It is a desktop-like, industrially designed 1RU box priced cost-effectively for mid-markets.Cisco ISR 4221 Key Highlights:

1. It meets all digital network requirementsYou can check the newest Benefits of Migrating to Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers here: 2. With respect to performance, the ISR 4221 kicks it up a notch with throughput starting at 35 and upgradeable up to 75 Mbps.

3. Despite a 1RU form factor, this economical “Swiss Army Knife” has unmatched values in its class for a few reasons:a. It has multi-services support for SD-WAN and is programmable and automated   with APIC-EM controller and IWAN app for consistent business-driven and policy-based operations across network domains.b. It is an application-aware platform complete with Intelligent Path Control (PfR), application visibility (NBAR2) and Network Contention Control (H/QoS).c. It comes with Cisco IOS built-in security features for complete branch threat defense, such as Zone-based Firewall, FirePOWER Threat Defense, Network Address Translation (NAT), and IPSec VPN.d. It is a standard-based Linux virtualization platform. With Linux Virtual Container (LXC), signed network service like Snort IPS can be spin up as virtual machine any time.e. It is equipped with up to 2×8 integrated switch ports – a true all-in-one platform – for pop-up or micro branches where the average square footage is as little as 350-sf.f. It supports IPv6 and legacy WAN connectivity, such as 3G/4G LTE, for IoT use cases such as ATM/Kiosk or industrial environments without dedicated MPLS transport.For in-depth details, you can check out Model Comparison: ISR 4321 vs. 4331 vs. 4351 vs. 4431 vs. 4451 Router

The new Cisco ISR 4221 is available beginning mid-November. And it will ship with latest Cisco IOS-XE release. Introducing the Cisco IOS XE Open Service Containers

More about the New ISR 4421: The New ISR 4221, the New Cisco DNA-Ready Platform

Firstly, let’s have a look at the images of Cisco ISR 4351, 4331, and 4321.

Cisco 4000 Series ISRs provide you with Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN) software features and a converged branch infrastructure. Along with superior throughput, these capabilities form the building blocks of next-generation branch-office WAN solutions.Note: Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN): Cisco IWAN is a set of intelligent software services that allow you to reliably and securely connect users, devices, and branch office locations across a diverse set of WAN transport links. IWAN-enabled routers like the 4000 Series dynamically route traffic across the “best” link based on up-to-the-minute application and network conditions for great application experiences. You get tight control over application performance, bandwidth usage, data privacy, and availability of your WAN links—control that you need as your branches conduct greater volumes of mission-critical business.Benefits-Cisco ISR 4000 Series

In the following table you can see the main Cisco ISR 4000 model comparison: ISR 4221 vs. 4321 vs. 4331 vs. 4351 vs. 4431 vs. ISR 4451.

Feature 4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Form factor 1 RUDesktop

1 RUDesktop

1 RU 2 RU 1 RU 2 RU

Integrated WAN ports

GE / SFP

GE / SFP

GE / SFP

2 PoE GE / SFP

2 PoE GE / SFP

2 PoE GE / SFP

1 GE GE GE GE/ SFP

2 GE / SFP

2 GE / SFP

Feature 4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

    SFP      

Performance

35Mbps

50 Mbps

100 Mbps

200 Mbps

500 Mbps

Gbps

Upgradable to 75 Mbps

Upgradable to 100 Mbps

Upgradable to 300 Mbps

Upgradable to 400 Mbps

Upgradeable to 1 Gbps

Upgradable to 2 Gbps

Management port

  1 GE (Integrated Out of Band)

Network Interface Modules (NIM)

2 2 2 3 3 3

Enhanced Services Module (SM-X)

N/A N/A single-wide

2 single- or1 double-wide

N/A 2 single- or double-wide

Integrated Services Card (ISC) slots

N/A 1 1 1 1 1

(PVDM 4)

(PVDM 4)

(PVDM 4)

(PVDM 4)

(PVDM 4)

USB ports (type A)

1 1 1 2 2 2

Default/max Flash

8 GB 4 GB / 8 GB

4 GB / 16 GB

4 GB / 16 GB

8 GB / 32 GB

8 GB / 32 GB

Feature 4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Default/max DRAM

4 GB 4 GB / 8 GB

4 GB / 16 GB

4 GB / 16 GB

4 GB / 16 GB

4 GB / 16 GB

Power supply type

External: AC

External: AC, PoE

Internal: AC, PoE

Internal: AC, PoE or DC

Internal: AC, PoE or DC

Internal: AC, PoE or DC

Redundant power supply

No No No No Yes Yes

Internal RPS

Internal RPS

Module online insertion and removal (OIR)

No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Server virtualization platform (UCS E-Series) and Network Compute Engine (NCE)

N/A   2-core single-wide, 2-core NCE

2 core single-wide, 2-core NCE

  2-core single-wide, 2-core NCE

4-core NCE

4-core single-wide, 4-core NCE

4 core single-wide, 4-core NCE

4-core NCE

4-core single-wide, 4-core NCE

    4 core double-wide,

  4-core double-wide,

Feature 4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

    6 core double-wide,

  6-core double-wide,

    8 core double-wide

  8-core double-wide

Advanced Security

4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Zone-based firewall and NAT services

VRF-Aware Firewall and Network Address Translation (NAT)

Hardware VPN acceleration(DES, 3DES, AES)

No

IPSEC VPN services

FlexVPN, Easy VPN remote server, Enhanced Easy VPN, Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN),

Group Encrypted Transport VPN (GET VPN), V3PN, MPLS VPN

SSL VPN No

Intrusion prevention

Yes (Snort for Singnature Based and FirePower as nGIPS)

Feature 4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Anomaly Detection and Machine Learning

Cisco Self Learning Networks (SLN)

Network foundation protection

ACL, FPM, control plan protection, control plane policing (CoPP), QoS, role-based CLI access, source-based RTBH, uRPF, SSHv2

Cisco Umbrella Branch Support

Yes

Cisco Cloud Web Security

Yes

Identity-based networking

No No No No No No

Cisco TrustSec

Security Group Tag Exchange Protocol (SXP), SGT over GETVPN

SGT over IPSEC

SGT over DMVPN

SGT-based ZBFW

Port/Layer 3 interface/IP/subnet-to-SGT mapping

Feature 4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

SGT export in Flexible NetFlow

Unified Communications

4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Local conferencing

N/A Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Digital signal processor support

N/A PVDM4

PVDM4

PVDM4

PVDM4 PVDM4

Cisco Unified Survivable Remote Site

N/A Up to 50

Up to 100

Up to 750

Up to 1200

Up to 2000

Telephony support

Cisco Unified Communications

N/A Up to 50

Up to 100

Up to 250

Up to 350

Up to 450

Manager Express support

Cisco Unity N/A Use Use Use Use Use

Feature 4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Express Cisco Unity Connection on UCSE

Cisco Unity Connection on UCSE

Cisco Unity Connection on UCSE

Cisco Unity Connection on UCSE

Cisco Unity Connection on UCSE

(NM, SM, or ISM)

Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE)

N/A 100 400 1000 3000 6000

(SIP/H.323 sessions)

nano Cisco Unified Border Element (nanoCUBE)

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

(sessions)

Digital voice and video (T1/E1 channels)

N/A Up to 240

Up to 360

Up to 720

Up to 720

Up to 1200

Analog/BRI voice

N/A Up to 8 ports (FXS, FXO, E/M,

Up to 12 ports (FXS, FXO, E/M,

Up to 20 ports (FXS, FXO, E/M,

Up to 12 ports (FXS, FXO, E/M,

Up to 20 ports (FXS, FXO, E/M,

Feature 4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

BRi) BRi) BRi) BRi) BRi)

Routing and Multicast

4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

IPv4 routing protocols

RIP v1/v2, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, PBR, PfR

RIP v1/v2, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, PBR, PfR

RIP v1/v2, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, PBR, PfR

RIP v1/v2, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, PBR, PfR

RIP v1/v2, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, PBR, PfR

RIP v1/v2, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, PBR, PfR

Multicast routing protocols

PIM-SM, mroute (static route), and MLD

PIM-SM, mroute (static route), and MLD

PIM-SM, mroute (static route), and MLD

PIM-SM, mroute (static route), and MLD

PIM-SM, mroute (static route), and MLD

PIM-SM, mroute (static route), and MLD

IPv6 routing protocols

EIGRP, RIP, OSPFv3, IS-IS,

EIGRP, RIP, OSPFv3, IS-IS,

EIGRP, RIP, OSPFv3, IS-IS,

EIGRP, RIP, OSPFv3, IS-IS,

EIGRP, RIP, OSPFv3, IS-IS,

EIGRP, RIP, OSPFv3, IS-IS,

BGP and PBR

BGP and PBR

BGP and PBR

BGP and PBR

BGP and PBR

BGP and PBR

Wireless LAN

4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Feature 4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Integrated 802.11 b/g/n access point

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Integrated 802.11 a/b/g/n access point

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Unified and autonomous mode

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

RP-TNC connectors for field-replaceable

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

optional high-gain antennas

Diversity (dual antennas)

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Wireless LAN controller module

N/A Available on UCS E-Series

Available on UCS E-Series

Available on UCS E-Series

Available on UCS E-Series

Available on UCS E-Series

Wireless 4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Feature 4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

WAN

3G /4G LTE cellular

Yes

Cat 6 LTE Advanced

Yes†

GPS Support

Yes

Indoor Antenna

Yes (Various antenna using 2 x TNC connectors supporting MIMO)

Outdoor antennas

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Integrated Switching

4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Maximum switched Ethernet ports

2 x 8 16 40 72 24 72

Maximum switched Ethernet LAN ports with PoE

0 16 40 72 24 72

PoE support

N/A 120 W 250 W 500 W 250 W 500 W

Feature 4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

(wattage)

without PoE boost

(with optional power supply redundancy)

PoE support (wattage)

N/A 260 W 500 W 950 W 530 W 990 W

with PoE boost

(no power supply redundancy)

EtherSwitch Service Module type (width)

N/A N/A single 2 single or 1 double

N/A 2 single or 1 double

Application Services

  4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

Intelligent Path Control

PfR PfR PfR PfR PfR PfR

Network Contention Control

QoS, HQoS

QoS, HQoS

QoS, HQoS

QoS, HQoS

QoS, HQoS

QoS, HQoS

Application Visibility

NBAR v2

NBAR v2

NBAR v2

NBAR v2

NBAR v2

NBAR v2

Feature 4221 4321 4331 4351 4431 4451

WAN Optimization

N/A ISR-WAAS

ISR-WAAS,

ISR-WAAS,

ISR-WAAS

ISR-WAAS,

vWAAS on UCS E-Series

vWAAS on UCS E-Series

vWAAS on UCS E-Series

Akamai Connect

N/A Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) with Enterprise Module

† With CAT6 LTE Advanced theoretical DL speed of 300 Mbps, with 2 NIM slots ISR4221 and ISR4321, customer may need the performance license to maximize CAT6 LTE Advanced theoretical full potential capability with 2 NIM CAT6 LTE Advanced slots depending on specific carrier SP provisioning capability & capacity.Read the original updated info of Cisco 4000 Series. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/4000-series-integrated-services-routers-isr/datasheet-c78-732542.html#_ftn7

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