IR1000 Rugged Router Series

Cisco IR1000 Rugged Router Series, 2 x 10/100/1000Base-T Gigabit Ethernet LAN/WAN Ports, 1 x RS232/RS485 Serial Port, 1 x USB Type-C Console Port, Alarm I/O Port, -40 to 70 Deg. C Extended Temp Range. Routing Advantage or Essentials Software License Required (Sold Separately). Cellular or Blank Module Required (Sold Separately). (Please Specify Advanced Threat Detection.)

Cisco IR1000 Rugged Series Secure Routers

Cisco IR1000 Rugged Series Secure Routers are ultra-compact, ultra-low power industrial routers with threat protection for critical infrastructure. They enable secure and resilient connectivity where space, power, and security requirements leave no room for trade-offs, such as grid networks, roadways infrastructure and oil and gas pipelines.

The new Cisco IR1000 Rugged Series Secure Routers are designed for deployments requiring ultra-compact, ultra-low power demands while maintaining high resiliency, robust security, and adaptability to support lifecycles in extreme environments.

The IR1000 is designed to withstand hostile environments, including shock, dust, humidity, and Electrostatic Discharge (ESD). This durability makes it ideal for harsh industrial and distributed IoT deployments such as transportation, oil and gas, distribution substations, industrial automation, and financial institutions.

Highlights

• Ultra-compact: Cisco's smallest industrial router by 40%, fitting into tight spaces with flexible mounting options.
• Ultra-low power: Measuring at just under 5W when deployed with the new 5G pluggable interface module, the IR1000 is designed for solar- or battery-powered deployments. Its sleep mode offers the most efficient way of delivering critical data while managing energy consumption.
• Comprehensive threat protection for critical infrastructure: OT-aware NGFW capabilities such as stateful inspection, application awareness, intrusion prevention, malware protection, and continuous threat intelligence updates powered by Cisco Talos. This ensures robust security at the industrial edge without compromising performance.
• Modular cellular backhaul: Including the option for the all-new 5G Reduced Capability pluggable interface module, featuring support for the SGP.32 eSIM standard for over-the-air remote SIM provisioning.
• AI at the edge: Collect and transform data from assets using intelligence hosted right on the router.

Business Benefits and Application Examples

Industrial customers are looking for real-time monitoring and control of industrial assets to help increase operation efficiency.

• Utilities: Monitor tens of thousands of miles of electric distribution lines or water infrastructure, often located in harsh environments, over cellular networks to provide remote asset monitoring and reliable, secure SCADA traffic backhauling.
• Oil and gas: Monitor pipeline infrastructure across wide geographic areas and remote locations using 4G LTE and 5G cellular networks to collect data from remote terminal units and securely transport SCADA traffic to a Network Operations Center (NOC).
• Transportation: Support reliable, always-on communication between speed cameras, monitoring cameras, and ticket terminals for highways and transportation agencies.

Security and Software

With Cisco Trust Anchor Technology ensuring authenticity of hardware and software, hardware-accelerated Next Generation Encryption and Quantum Computer Resistant algorithms, firewall and VPN services, and alerts and notifications enabling physical and cyber security, the IR1000 offers a multi-layer security for mission-critical deployments.

Cisco IOS XE Software is a highly secure, standards-based, and flexible operating system for a new era of IoT deployment. It is an enterprise-class OS with advanced routing and security.

Features and Benefits

• Modularity and investment protection: A single form factor with multiple WAN options (LTE Advanced, 5G RedCap, and 5G SA) enables flexibility to add or upgrade modules as technologies evolve.
• Dual SIM support: With LTE and 5G carrier aggregation, the IR1000 enables active/standby connectivity to cellular networks for WAN reliability, enhanced data throughputs, load balancing, and differentiated services.
• Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) capable: For high WAN availability and simplicity for large-scale distributed networks.
• Edge computing: Speeds up awareness and response to events and conserves network bandwidth by analyzing the most time-sensitive data at the network edge, close to where it is generated.
• Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA): Supports migration of data from legacy control systems in an industrial environment to an IP-based network using DNP3 serial-to-DNP3/IP and IEC 60870 T101-to-T104 protocol translations.
• Smart grid-compliant: Designed for installation in harsh secondary substation environments. Complies with IEEE 1613 and IEC 61850-3 for distribution automation.
• GPS: Location-based services for tracking assets and protecting from theft and intrusion.
• Ease of management: On-premises and cloud-based network management solutions, such as Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN and Cisco IoT Field Network Director (FND), simplify deployment and offer cross-network management and multi-layer visibility.
• Multiple Packet Data Network (PDN): Gain connectivity to different Access Point Names (APNs) for traffic segregation over a cellular link.
• 4G LTE/5G multiple-bearer QoS: Differentiated treatment of traffic with multiple simultaneous bearers as per 3GPP standards for an enhanced user experience.
• Network Segmentation: Multi-VRF, VLAN, and VPN enable businesses to configure and maintain more than one instance of a routing and forwarding table within the same customer edge device.
• I/O ports supporting both wet and dry contact: Save space with built-in I/O ports that allow for versatile monitoring and control in industrial environments.
• Raw socket transport and SCADA: The raw socket can be used to transport SCADA data from RTUs, as an alternative to the Block Serial Tunnel (BSTUN) protocol.
• Multiple mounting options: Surface and DIN rail mounting in horizontal or vertical orientations.
• Increased performance with multi-core processor: Run simultaneous services while continuing to support business-critical workflows.
• Serial interface: A serial asynchronous interface (RJ45) with RS-232 (DTE and DCE) and RS-485 can be used with raw socket, protocol translation, and connections to Remote Terminal Units (RTUs), sensors, and PLCs for SCADA transport and management.
• Cellular fallback: Multiple technologies (5G, 5G RedCap, and 4G LTE) are available to support connectivity to the best one available.