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Create a powerful, highly resilient, and cost-effective network infrastructure with the Cisco 2691 wired Ethernet router. Suitable for branch office settings, this router provides optimum performance, flexibility, and integration to meet increasing demands for more and better application and networking services. The Cisco 2691 also comes with robust security options to keep your digital network safe at all times. Plus, you do not need to worry about the complexities of configuring a Cisco router for the first time. The device comes with a simplified management environment to facilitate easy configuration, deployment, and branch office network monitoring. The Cisco 2691 is a modular multi-server access router in the larger Cisco 2600 product family. This router enables you to adapt and scale mission-critical business operations to accommodate not only current but also future changes in technology. As your organization grows, the Cisco 2691 router’s modular design enables built-in interfaces to be upgraded so you can add more functionality to your data center. Network modules that are compatible with the Cisco 2691 router provides support for a comprehensive set of applications, including analog and integrated services digital network (ISDN) dial access, integrated switching, multi-service voice and data integration, and serial device concentration. If you are working with other routers from the Cisco 1700 and Cisco 3700 series, the Cisco 2691’s interoperability lets you combine separate routers into a single logical unit. This gives you plenty of protection for your current investments. Performance is significantly improved in the Cisco 2691 router with the addition of field-installable advanced integration modules (AIMs). If you are running processor-intensive programs, the Cisco 2691 automatically transfers processes onto a dedicated co-processor while saving external interface slots for other tasks. This minimizes delays and congestion in your system. The Cisco 2691 router supports a range of AIMs, which provide not only optimum performance but also data encryption, hardware-assisted data encryption, asynchronous transfer mode, and digital-signal-processor capabilities for up to 30 digital channels. The Cisco 2691 offers a wide range of integrated services, including voice and data integration, flexible routing and low-density switching integration, and content networking and branch office routing integration. With voice and data integration, you can better manage your converged telephony requirements. Spending money on a one-time solution is not necessary since the Cisco 2691 router enables you to build a scalable analog and digital telephony. Providing flexible local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) router configurations, Internet access is integrated into the router’s chassis. It comes with two fast Ethernet ports that transmit data at up to 100 megabits per second. The router also includes three built-in WAN interface card (WIC) slots, which enable voice and WIC redeployment to support packet voice applications or channelized voice and data. As your business operations expand and application demands increase, you can use a combination of AIMs, WICs and network modules to build new configurations based on your requirements. As the backbone of your business, it is vitally important that your system remains a secure digital environment. The Cisco 2691 router comes with enhanced security measures to block malicious attacks and keep unauthorized personnel from gaining access to your system. Other related features include network admission control, data encryption, authentication, audit trails, denial of service prevention, and filtering. Aside from strengthening the security of your entire data infrastructure, the Cisco 2691 wired router also offers a lower cost of ownership to give you a space-saving, easy-to-manage solution for your networking needs.