Cisco routers

Since 1986, Cisco has been one of the largest sellers of networking equipment in the world. On January 2, 2002 Cisco Systems became arguably the most valuable company in the world.^[1] Their first, and one of their most important product lines is their lineup of computer network routers. Cisco's router product line started with their AGS. The AGS hardware was a clone of the Stanford University blue box router, which was a commodity Sun Microsystems computer, and the AGS software was also a clone of William Yeager's routing software, in use, and owned by Stanford at the time. Cisco licensed the hardware and software and started selling the AGS. Cisco has a history of aggressive acquisition of other companies, bringing their networking products into the cisco lineup, and it also has a history of expansion. Cisco's router lineup has expanded over the years to fill almost every space. With Cisco's acquisition of Linksys, Cisco routers took a hold of the home, and home office router market. Cisco arguably started out targeting the wider corporate world with routers targeted at central offices as well as branch offices, and Cisco slowly expanded into the competitive telecommunications and internet service provider markets. Cisco product lineups grew to include access routers, routers used by ISPs to connect to their customers, as well as core internet routers used by telecommunication giants as the central pillars of the internet. Cisco has also moved into the cellular routing with their USC offerings. Cisco has even targeted the space-borne communications market putting its routers into orbit.

Advanced Gateway Server (AGS)

• 1986
• Cisco's first router
• Hardware a copy of the Stanford Blue Box router, licensed to Cisco by Stanford
• Software a copy of William Yeager's routing software that was initially copied without permission, but later licensed to Cisco by Stanford.
• multiprotocol
• TCP/IP
• PUP
• DECnet
• AGS+
• "Alphabet Soup Products" (retrospectively)

MGS

• Mid-Range Gateway Server^[2]

CGS

• Compact Gateway Server

IGS

• Integrated Gateway Server

F Gateway Server (FGS)

• 1986

HyBridge

• 1988?

3000

• 1992
• ISDN router^[3]
• 6,000 packets per second
• $13,000

4000

• 1992
• 4000, 4000-M ^[4]
• Motorola 68EC030 40 MHz
• 4000 - 4-16MB RAM
• 4000M - 4-32MB RAM

7000

• 1993
• Motorola 68040

2500

• 1994
• 20 MHz 68030
• 8MB/16MB Flash memory
• 4MB/16MB RAM

7500

• 1995
• 1-4 CyBus more than 1Gbit/s per Cybus
• 1-4GBps backplane
• 1-2 RSP slot
• 7505, 7507, 7513, 7576
• RSP1 100 MHz MIPS R4600 RISC
• RSP2 100 MHz MIPS R4600 RISC
• RSP4 200 MHz MIPS R5000 RISC
• RSP8 250 MHz MIPS RM7000 RISC

12000

• 1996
• terabit? 1999?
• 12008, 12012, 12016
• 40-80 GBps switching capacity
• 200 MHz R5000
• PRP-1 PPC 7450
• PRP-2 PPC 7455

3600

• 1996^[5]
• Netbeyond product family
• $5,000-$10,000
• Medium to Large offices and Internet Service Providers
• 3620
  • 80 MHz IDT R4700
  • 8/32MB Flash Memory
  • 32/64MB RAM
• 3640
  • 100 MHz IDT R4700
  • 8/32MB Flash Memory
  • 32/128MB RAM
• 3660
  • 225 MHz QED RM5271 RISC
  • 8/64MB Flash Memory
  • 32/256MB RAM
• 3660 model using fast routing can route 100,000-120,000 packets per second ^[6]

1600

• 1996
• 1601, 1602R, 1603R, 1604R, 1605R
• 10Mb Ethernet
• 1 Wan Interface Card slot
• 33 MHz 68360
• 4MB/16MB def/max flash
• 8MB/24MB def/max RAM
• NetBeyond Product Family

2600

• 1998^[7]
• updated with the XM (eXtended Memory, and later, 2690)
• 40 MHz/50 MHz/80 MHz Motorola PowerQUICC MPC860, MPC860C RISC processor, 2601-2651XM
• 160 MHz RM7061A
• 8/16MB flash, 2601-2621
• 24/256MB RAM, 2601-2621
• 70,000 packets per second (2691) ^[8]

1700

• ~1999^[9]
• 1720, 1750
• 48 MHz RISC Motorola PowerQUICC MPC860 ^[10]
• 1 fixed Fast Ethernet port
• 1750
  • RISC Processor—Motorola MPC860T PowerQUICC at 48 MHz

800

• pre 1999^[11]
• 801, 802, 803, 804, 805 ^[12]
• 10Mb Ethernet
• up to 20 users
• 33 MHz MPC 850

1000

• pre 1999
• 1003, 1004, 1005
• 10Mb Ethernet
• 25 MHz MC68360

1400

• DSL
• small branch/business
• 10Mb ethernet
• 33 MHz Motorola QUICC 68360^[13]
• 4MB default 16MB maximum Flash memory
• 16MB default and maximum RAM

3300

• SONET edge router
• 200 MHz RISC processor
• 8MB Flash Memory
• 64MB RAM

6400

• 7200 200 Processor
• Node Switch Processor
• Node Route Processor

6700

• 6705
  • 5 slots
• 6732
  • 32 slots

7100

• 7120, 225 MHz RM5271, 7140, 262 MHz RM7000

4500

• 100 MHz IDT Orion MIPS R4400 RISC

4700

• 133 MHz IDT Orion MIPS R4400 RISC

700

• pre 1999
• small home/office ISDN router
• 761, 762, 775, 776
• 25 MHz i80386^[14]
• 1MB Flash Memory
• 1.5MB default RAM 2MB maximum
• 760 series
  • 1 10Mb Ethernet port
• 770 series
  • 4 10Mb Ethernet hub ports

SOHO

• SOHO 70, 90
• Motorola RISC Motorola MPC855T^[15] 50 MHz processor^[16]
• Secure VPN connections to small and remote offices with up to 5 workers
• CNS 2100 series Intelligence Engine providing centralized IOS configuration
• 32MB RAM
• 8MB flash memory
• "The Cisco SOHO 78 is a symmetrical high-data-rate digital subscriber line (G.SHDSL) router." The Cisco SOHO 90 series comprises the Cisco SOHO 91 Ethernet broadband router, the Cisco SOHO 96 ADSL over ISDN secure broadband router, and the Cisco SOHO 97 ADSL broadband router. "The Cisco SOHO 91 Ethernet broadband router has an Ethernet WAN port for use with an external DSL or cable modem. The Cisco SOHO 96 router has an integrated ADSL modem that supports ADSL over ISDN lines. An asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) modem is integrated into the Cisco SOHO 97 ADSL broadband routers. The Cisco SOHO 97 router supports ADSL over POTS."^[17]

Cisco Small Business 100 Series Routers

• 101 (Ethernet), 106 (ADSL over ISDN), 107(ADSL)^[18]
• supports MPLS based VPNs
• up to five users

10000

• 2000

12400

• 2001

3700

• 2002^[19]
• 3725
  • 240 MHz^[20]
• 3745
  • 350 MHz
• RM5200 MIPS RISC processor
• Cisco 3725-100k packets per second Cisco 3745-225kpps^[21]

7300

• 2003
• MIPS RM7000 parallel express forwarding

Integrated Service Router

• 2004
• ISR 800, Freescale MPC8272
• ISR 1800, Freescale SC8517
• ISR 2800, RM5261A, RM7065C, RM7065C-466T
• ISR 3800, BCM1125H, BCM1250

7200

• 7204, 7204VXR, 7206, 7206VXR
• 150, 175, 200, 225, 263 MHz MIPS RISC
• R4700, RM5270, R5000, RM5271, RM7000, PPC 7448
• 1 million packets per second
• NPE-G1 700 MHz Broadcom BCM1250 ^[22]

Carrier Routing System CRS-1

• 2004

Nexus 7000

• 2008

Integrated Service Router Version 2

• 1900, 2900, 3900

4000 Series Integrated Service Router

• 4300
• 4400
• IOS XE
• 8 core

References

External links

• http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240056161/Cisco-timeline
• http://www.computerworld.com.au/slideshow/310024/evolution-router/?image=15
• http://www.exigentnetworks.ie/the-history-of-cisco-timeline/
• http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2004/Cisco_Routing_Timeline.pdf
• http://www.kellys.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ciscohybridge029.pdf
• http://www.bradreese.com/reference-guide-january-2000.pdf
• http://www.networkworld.com/article/2229157/cisco-subnet/ccna-lab-iii--sifting-through-the-router-model-series.html