Cisco 1921 Recommendations

[dderbowka]

Looking to buy a Used Cisco 1921 for home use. Running several servers/home applications.

Does the 1921 Support HTTP configuration via Web Based Management?

Does the 1921 Support Multiple VLANS?

(Private Network, Guest Network, Demo Network)

Can the 1921 Use a Gigabit WAN Card and get Gigabit WAN speeds? And what WAN card would be used? 

Is this router easy to manage?

Thanks!

[Alan Ng'ethe]

Management

Device staging and configuration

Cisco Configuration Professional

●  Cisco Configuration Professional is a GUI device-management tool for Cisco IOS Software-based access routers. This tool simplifies routing, firewall, IPS, VPN, unified communications, and WAN and LAN configuration through GUI-based easy-to-use wizards

VLANs
The Cisco 1921 Integrated Services Router will support the EHWIC LAN modules when they become available in the future.

The Cisco 1921 supports the existing singlewide Cisco EtherSwitch® HWIC and the doublewide HWIC-D modules, which greatly expand the capabilities of the router by integrating industry-leading Layer 2 switching. For VLANs the Cisco EtherSwitch should allow you to configure vlans.

WAN cards

Cisco Enhanced High-Speed WAN Interface Card (EHWIC)

●  The EHWIC slot replaces the high-speed WAN Interface Card (HWIC) slot and can natively support HWICs, WAN Interface Cards (WICs), and voice/WAN Interface Cards (VWICs). ●  Two integrated EHWIC slots are available on the Cisco 1921 for flexible configurations for support of two modules: One doublewide HWIC-D or two singlewide EHWIC/HWIC modules are supported. ●  Each EHWIC slot offers high-data-throughput capability.

Source:

Cisco 1921 Series Integrated Services Routers Data Sheet

[Martin L]

Cisco Configuration Professional is a GUI device-management tool for Cisco IOS Software-based access routers.
it used to be SDM for older routers

[balaji.bandi]

1921 support GUI and need moduels to achieve this, since you have mentioned Lot servers  / devices. what kind of switch you have in place to connect them ?

being router with high capabilities, may boiled down your servers with low level switch in place - so suggest to look that also switch point of view.

[dderbowka]

2 Cisco SG300-10 Switches. One having POE+ for the access points and webcams.

2 Dell Servers.
1 As Domain Controller (Holds user data and mobile phone data) - Private Network
1 Is for the security cameras. (I call it demo network to keep things simple)
No server for Guest Network.

[Giuseppe Larosa]

Hello dderbowka,

I just want to point out one aspect about performance: you can use a GE interface for Internet access but not full speed.

See the following performance tests performed

https://community.cisco.com/t5/networking-documents/cisco-1921-router-performance-test/ta-p/3141336

400 Mbps without using NAT, QoS or IPSec.

All other your questions are well covered by other posts in the thread

Hope to help

Giuseppe

[johnlloyd_13]

hi,

you can use Cisco CCP to manage the 1921 router via the web GUI (also need java installed).

you can use one of the onboard gig ports (2x gig ports total) for your WAN and use dot1q (router-on-a-stick) to support multiple VLANs.

in terms of how easy to manage the router is subjective: do you have CCNA/CCENT, do you know how to use CLI?

[Sam Smiley]

The 1921 does not have a HTML interface; it, like other routers in the series, requires configuration at the command line interface.

The 1921 does support VLANs but not in the way you want them to work. You can create trunk interfaces that would pass traffic for multiple VLANs by creating SVIs, or you can add something like an EHWIC-4ESG card it will allow you to support multiple VLANs similar to a switch. The 1921 is a router (L3 device), in order to do what you want you would need a switch (L2 device),

The 1921 already comes with Gigabit Ethernet interfaces however it will not route at Gigabit speeds.