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October 16, 2007
The Power-Packed 1861 Micro Router
I stumbled on this router while reading through some new Cisco marketing mish-mesh...Alright - check this thing out: it's a branch router that does...EVERYTHING!
CallManager / Unity Express (VoIP Phones)
VPN Support (site-to-site, remote access, SSL VPNs)
Firewall features
802.1x features
HWIC Slot (for WAN cards)
Built in FXS/FXO slots (for POTS phones & phone lines)
The only thing it's missing is wireless...but still sweet nonetheless. It's so new, I can't find out how much it costs yet...I'm guessing 2,000 - 3,000 dollars...donations anyone?
Posted by JC at October 16, 2007 9:00 AM
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Sweet! And... I see an audio input? I'm guessing that's MOH? How cool is that! Who needs Asterisk @ Home, when you can get this little gem!
I would have thought it would be more than $3k, if you want the CME/Unity licenses? I guess we'll soon see.
Posted by: Aaron Paxson at October 16, 2007 10:56 AM
The audio input is for MOH.
Posted by: Nick at October 16, 2007 5:57 PM
not used to listen to music ?
Ok, Ok...
Posted by: mp3 at October 17, 2007 8:23 AM
List price is $5195
Posted by: Scott Brooke at October 17, 2007 8:25 AM
And it does support the AP HWIC in that slot. List on a G radio is $500.
Posted by: Scott Brooke at October 17, 2007 8:27 AM
Hmmmm...may need a few more donations then :).
Posted by: JC at October 17, 2007 8:32 AM
This is the UC500 without the wireless. Yes they are nice if you don't use the CCA tool to configure it. My company is in the middle of installing/troubleshooting one and the GUI method of configuring leaves a LOT to be desired. Otherwise it's built on a solid platform with proven technology.
I've installed 3 of these for clients and once they are configured they work great.
Posted by: Jamie Price at October 19, 2007 7:50 AM
The other big difference is the ability of this to run in SRST mode. Pretty sure the UC500 can't do that.
Posted by: Scott Brooke at October 19, 2007 9:09 AM
Yes, you're correct. The UC500 cannot do that.
With the bugs that we've found in the UC500 I can't say I recommend it either..
Posted by: Jamie Price at October 20, 2007 11:54 AM
UC500 does not support advanced routing features, the 1861 does. UC500 is availible with or without built-in wireless-AP, the 1861 needs an interfacecard to support it. UC500 is a small office product designed to make the trasition to Unified Communications attractive. 1861 is a real router bundled with Unified Communications.
Posted by: Leo Bergström at October 22, 2007 12:10 AM
Does UC 500 also support site-to-site VPN?
Posted by: Jerome at December 11, 2007 3:16 AM
The UC500 also does not support any WAN interface cards and only supports FXO/FXS modules. The 1800 series that is being shown should support various PRI/T1/E1 cards.
Posted by: Chase Voisin at December 11, 2007 11:24 AM