A Flexible, Easy-to-Manage Router to Secure Your Small Business
More than ever, you need to secure your network to keep you business assets safe from threats. You depend on your network to keep you connected to the people you do business with every day, from customers to suppliers and business partners. Yet when you have a small networking staff, it can be difficult to manage your network and make sure it is well protected from security breaches. To be successful, you need a complete network solution that delivers the security and rich features you need, yet is affordable and easy to use.
The Cisco® 520 Secure Router combines Internet access, advanced security, virtual private network (VPN) access, and optional wireless networking, all in a single easy-to-use device. Designed for seamless integration with the Cisco Smart Business Communications System - a complete set of advanced voice, data, security, and wireless networking products designed specifically for small businesses - the Cisco 520 Secure Router brings together multiple technologies to help you improve network security and simplify network management.
Product Overview
The Cisco 500 Series Secure Routers deliver:
• High performance broadband access for small offices and teleworkers
• Highly secure remote access and site-to-site connectivity with IP Security (IPsec) VPN, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) VPN, and dynamic multipoint VPN (DMVPN)
• Built-in threat defense, including:
– Stateful packet inspection (SPI) firewall to help minimize web and email threats
– Intrusion prevention system (IPS), providing protection from attacks, worms, and viruses by detecting and stopping these threats before they can affect the network
– Cisco IOS® Content Filtering to restrict access to undesirable websites and help guard against malware and phishing attacks
• Highly secure 802.11b/g wireless networking option to connect mobile employees in the workplace
• Support for static routing and dynamic routing protocols to easily adapt to diverse network environments
• Quality of service (QoS) for crisp voice and video communications
• 4-port 10/100 managed switch with VLAN support to interconnect workplace devices such as computers, servers, and printers
• Simple deployment, management, and troubleshooting with Cisco Configuration Assistant
Table 1 lists the current Cisco 500 Series Secure Router models.
Table 1. Cisco 500 Series Secure Router Models
Model Number
Part Number
WAN Interface
802.11b/g Wireless
Cisco SR520
SR520-FE-K9
10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet
No
SR520-ADSL-K9
Asymmetric DSL (ADSL) over basic telephone service
No
SR520-ADSLI-K9
ADSL over ISDN (Annex B)
No
Cisco SR520W
SR520W-FE-K9
10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet
Yes
SR520W-ADSL-K9
ADSL over basic telephone service
Yes
SR520W-ADSLI-K9
ADSL over ISDN (Annex B)
Yes
Figure 1 shows a Cisco 520 Secure Router with and without wireless connectivity.
Figure 1. Cisco 520 Secure Routers
Applications
Part of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System, the Cisco 520 Secure Router is ideal for securely connecting small offices to the Internet or to other company offices. Figure 2 illustrates several different deployment scenarios.
Figure 2. Deployment Scenarios for the Cisco 520 Secure Router
This solution can help you accomplish the following:
• Securely connect your small office: The Cisco 520 Secure Router is ideal for securely connecting your employees with customers, business partners, and suppliers. Built-in advanced security and encryption lets you do business over the Internet with confidence and peace of mind. For example, online stores can safely perform transactions with credit cards and debit cards.
• Move beyond your traditional phone system: The Cisco 520 Secure Router works hand in hand with other Cisco Smart Business Communications System products, such as the Cisco Unified Communications 500 Series, to transform your business by securely bringing together all of your communications - phone calls, messaging, data, and wireless networking - onto a single network. Your employees can be more productive, and you can save money by managing and paying for just one network.
• Upgrade your business communications: If your business is already using the Cisco Smart Business Communications System, you can strengthen security by adding the Cisco 520 Secure Router. Intrusion prevention and Cisco IOS Content Filtering can add to your peace of mind, and intelligent network QoS lets you prioritize voice and data network traffic to improve network performance.
• Safely connect traveling employees or teleworkers: The Cisco 520 Secure Router is perfect for travelers or teleworkers who need secure VPN access to office applications and files. QoS features in the Cisco 520 Secure Router help maintain the integrity of voice communications from home offices.
Features and Benefits
The Cisco 520 Secure Router provides:
• Built-in advanced security: The Cisco 520 Secure Router includes advanced security features to help protect your business, including a firewall that inspects traffic at the application layer to help protect the network from unauthorized users, an inline intrusion prevention system that provides deep-packet inspection to effectively prevent a wide range of network attacks; built-in encryption using Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES) and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) that lets remote employees connect to the network securely using IPsec VPN, SSL VPN, or DMVPN; and Cisco IOS Content Filtering to add another layer of defense against malware and phishing attacks.
• Increased performance to run concurrent services: The Cisco 520 Secure Router delivers broadband performance while simultaneously running services such as firewall, intrusion prevention, VPN encryption, and wireless networking. Managing a single, all-in-one router is easier and less expensive than managing multiple network devices.
• Optional secure wireless networking: All Cisco 500 Series Secure Router models are available with built-in 802.11b/g wireless access points to enable your employees to access the network when away from their desks. Encryption and compliance with wireless network security standards protect your network traffic every step of the way.
• Built-in managed switch: An integrated 4-port 10/100 managed switch can connect computers, printers, and servers in your office. One port on the switch can serve as a network edge (DMZ) to add an additional layer of security to your network. The switch also supports VLANs to let you securely separate traffic on your office network.
• Simplified deployment and management: Cisco Configuration Assistant makes it easy to configure, install, and manage the Cisco 520 Secure Router. It can also generate status reports, synchronize passwords, and upgrade software across all of your Cisco network devices, reducing the time your staff devotes to network maintenance. Cisco Configuration Assistant is available for download free of charge at http://www.cisco.com/go/configassist.
• Quality of service: The Cisco 520 Secure Router features the QoS intelligence you need to prioritize networking traffic and support crisp delivery of rich voice and video applications.
• Multiple connectivity options: The Cisco 520 Secure Router offers a number of options for WAN connectivity, including Fast Ethernet, ADSL over basic telephone service, and ADSL over ISDN, enabling you to connect your offices with the technology that best meets your needs.
• Seamleass integration with the Cisco Smart Business Communications System: The Cisco 520 Secure Router was designed as an integral part of this complete system of advanced voice, data, security, and wireless networking for small business.
Product Specifications
Table 2 gives specifications for the Cisco 520 Secure Router. Table 3 lists the Cisco IOS Software features available with the wireless option, and Table 4 gives hardware specifications for the routers.
Table 2. Cisco 520 Secure Router Specifications
Feature
Description
Routing protocols and general router features
• Routing Information Protocol (RIP) versions 1 and 2
• Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Protocol
• Cisco Express Forwarding
• Port Address Translation (PAT)
• RFC 1483/2684
• Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM (PPPoA) (DSL models only)
• IPv6 translation-transport packets between IPv6-only and IPv4-only endpoints
• Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) v6
• IPv6 DHCP
DSL and ATM features (DSL models only)
• ATM Variable Bit Rate/real time (VBR-rt)
• ATM Unspecified Bit Rate (UBR), Constant Bit Rate (CBR), and Variable Bit Rate/non-real time (VBR-nrt)
• ATM Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) support for F5 continuity check; segment and end-to-end loopback; and Interim Local Management Interface (ILMI) support
• User database for survivable local authentication using Cisco LEAP and EAP-FAST
• Configurable limit to the number of wireless clients
• Configurable RADIUS accounting for wireless clients
• PSK (Pre-Shared Keys) (WPA-SOHO)
SSIDs
10
Wireless VLANs
10
Encrypted wireless VLANs
4
MBSSIDs
2
Table 4. Cisco 520 Secure Router Hardware
Feature
Description
Default DRAM
128 MB
Maximum DRAM
128 MB
Default flash memory
36 MB
Maximum flash memory
36 MB
LAN switch
Managed 4-port 10/100BASE-T with autosensing medium dependent interface (MDI)/MDI crossover (MDI-X) for auto-crossover
Console port
RJ-45
LEDs
PPP, VPN, ADSL, WLAN, LAN
External power supply
Universal 100 to 240V AC
DSL specifications
• ST-Microelectronics 20190 chipset
• Supports ADSL over basic telephone service with Annex A and Annex B ITU G.992.1 (ADSL), G.992.3 (ADSL2), and G.992.5 (ADSL2+)
• G.994.1 ITU G.hs
• Complies with T1.413 ANSI ADSL DMT issue 2
• DSL Forum TR-067
• The chipset does not provide interoperability with carrierless amplitude modulation/phase modulation (CAP)-based ADSL lines
• Annex A and Annex B are supported starting with Cisco IOS Software Release 12.4(4)T
• The ADSL2 standard (ITU G.992.3) adds new features and functions targeted at improving ADSL performance and interoperability. In addition, the standard adds support for new applications, services, and deployment scenarios. Among the changes are improvements in data rate and reach performance, rate adaptation, improved diagnostics, and power enhancements. The conventional ADSL standard (ITU G.992.1) provides downstream data rates of up to 8 Mbps and upstream data rates of up to 0.8 Mbps, and ADSL2 provides higher downstream rates of up to 12 Mbps and upstream data rates of up to 1 Mbps.
• The ADSL2+ standard (ITU G.992.5) doubles the bandwidth used for downstream data transmission, effectively doubling the maximum downstream data rates and achieving downstream data rates of up to 24 Mbps and upstream data rates of up to 1.5 Mbps.
Table 6 lists the supported ADSL2+ line cards for the Cisco 520 Secure Router.
Table 6. ADSL2+ Support
DSLAM
Line Card
Line Card Chipset
DSLAM Firmware
Alcatel 7300
ADSL2/2+ basic telephone service (Annex A)
ADLT-D (24-port)/Broadcom
L7D6AA47.020
Lucent Stinger
ADSL2/2+ basic telephone service (Annex A)
stngr-72-gs-adsl-card/ Conexant
9.7.1e64
Alcatel 7300
ADSL2/2+ basic telephone service (Annex A)
ABLT-D (24-port)/Broadcom
L7D6AA47.174
Lucent Stinger
ADSL2/2+ basic telephone service (Annex A)
stngr-72-gs-adsl-card/Conexant
9.9.1 (E.67.1.36)
ECI SAM480
ADSL2/2+ basic telephone service (Annex A)
ATUC-32/Infineon
A4_9.00.56
Ericsson EDA2.1
ADSL2/2+ basic telephone service (Annex A)
EDN312xp/Broadcom
CXC 132 7380 R2C09
Alcatel 7300
ADSL2+ ISDN (Annex B)
ADLT-F (24-port)/Broadcom
L7D6AA47.020
Ordering
Table 7 lists the part numbers for the Cisco 520 Secure Router.
Table 7. Product Part Numbers
Part Number/SKU
Product
SR520-FE-K9
4-port Cisco 520 Secure Router, Fast Ethernet WAN
SR520W-FE-K9
4-port Cisco 520 Secure Router, Fast Ethernet WAN, 802.11b/g compliant
SR520-ADSL-K9
4-port Cisco 520 Secure Router, ADSL over POTS (basic telephone service) (Annex A) WAN
SR520W-ADSL-K9
4-port Cisco 520 Secure Router, ADSL over POTS (basic telephone service) (Annex A) WAN, 802.11b/g compliant
SR520-ADSLI-K9
4-port Cisco 520 Secure Router, ADSL over IDSN (Annex B) WAN
SR520W-ADSLI-K9
4-port Cisco 520 Secure Router, ADSL over ISDN (Annex B) WAN, 802.11b/g compliant
FL-WEBVPN-10-K9
SSL VPN Feature License for up to 10 users
SL-CNFIL-87x-1Y
1-year subscription to Cisco IOS Content Filtering for Cisco 520 Series Secure Router
SL-CNFIL-8xx-TRI
30-day free trial license of Cisco IOS Content Filtering for Cisco 520 Series Secure Router
Secure Connectivity for Your Business
The network is becoming a key part of your most important business operations. To keep your business running at its best, and to give customers the service they expect, you need a network that is secure, powerful, and flexible.
The Cisco 520 Secure Router helps make communications easier by connecting customers to your business and your employees to each other. It delivers the solid security, secure VPN access, and advanced routing you need. At the same time, it helps you control costs, reduce your need for separate network equipment, and simplify network management. The Cisco 520 Secure Router is an important part of the Cisco Smart Business Communications System, which brings you communications capabilities usually found only at larger companies - at an affordable price. Whether you are starting up a small business or expanding a successful one, the Cisco 520 Secure Router can help you get connected today and grow smoothly in the future.
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