| Business need | Features/description |
| Lightweight, compact size with low power consumption | ●Can be deployed in many different environments where space, heat dissipation, and low power consumption are critical factors. |
| High performance to run concurrent services | ●High performance allows customers to take advantage of broadband network speeds while running secure, concurrent data, voice, video, and wireless services. |
| High availability and business continuity | ● Redundant WAN connections for failover protection and load balancing. ● Dynamic failover protocols such as Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP; RFC 2338), Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP), and Multigroup HSRP (MHSRP). |
| Consistent, high application performance levels | ● The router can run multiple services simultaneously with minimal performance degradation. |
| Risk mitigation with multilevel security | ● Network perimeter security with integrated application inspection firewall. ● Data privacy through high-speed IP Security (IPsec) Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES), and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption. ● High-performance VPNs: DMVPN, FlexVPN, GET VPN, EzVPN ● Cisco Umbrella™ security architecture to provide content filtering via category-based URL classification and blocking, thus helping increase productivity and providing better use of company resources. ● Enforced security policy with OpenDNS. ● Security hardware acceleration. ● Trustworthy systems with Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and hardware anchor. ● Encrypted traffic analytics maintain integrity of encrypted flow |
| Unified control of wired and wireless networks from a common console for streamlined operations | ● Simplifies and centralizes configuration and management of wireless and wireline devices. Supports WLAN services without requiring a wireless LAN controller. ● Supports Mobility Express for WLAN-enabled routers. |
| Remote configuration and management to keep local IT staff lean | ● Supports separate console/auxiliary and USB ports. ● Can be configured to work with optional USB token. ● Supports TR-069. |
| Performance ● Throughput ● Service reliability | ● Crypto performance up to 250 Mbps for 1100-8P and 150 Mbps for 1100-4P. ● A distributed multicore architecture with the industry’s first internal services plane. ● Remote installation of application-aware services that run identically to their counterparts in dedicated appliances. |
| Lower WAN expenditures | ● Cisco Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) (over the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module [APIC-EM]) support for optimized WAN connection. |
| Pay as you grow: IPsec performance upgrade model | ● Router IPsec capacity can be increased with a remote performance-on-demand license upgrade (no hardware upgrade) for exceptional savings andCapEx budget management. |
| IT consolidation, space savings, and improved Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) | ● Single converged branch platform integrates routing, switching, security, and performance management capabilities. |
| Business continuity and increased resiliency | ● The entire 1100 Series supports Power over Ethernet (PoE) and PoE+ power to endpoints. |
