Hi Nigel,.
I will give you some choices and some basic reasons for my selection. There are a lot more routers in the portfolio, but from your posting you seem to intinate you want to check out the lower priced Cisco Small Business products.
1.SR520-FE-K9
A very very low cost Cisco IOS based router.
- it offers the advantages of Cisco IOS CLI in a low low price
- excellent debugging
- excellent counters
- can be managed by the free utility Cisco Configuration Assistant
- supported by Cisco TAC
- Allows for site to site IPSec VPN tunnels
- There are two ADSL variants SR520-ADSL-K9 SR520-ADSLI-K9
- Wireless versions as well..but check datasheet.
2. RV220W or RV120W (relatively new)
- Gui only configuration
- provides IPSec tunnel between gateways
- enhanced software compared to older WRV2XX
- VLAN and trunk support
- PPTP server (with RV220W)
- Gig wan and LAN ports on the RV220w
- supported by Cisco Small Business Support Center
3. RV042 (refresh of a popular router , newly released Version 3 hardware and new firmware)
- Gui only configuration
- provides IPSec tunnel between gateways
- impoved software
- VLAN and trunk support
- PPTP server as well
- supported by Cisco Small Business Support Center
Moving up in features and price, you could check out the;
4. SA500 series ( with newly released version 2 firmware)
- A very capable box offering IPSec tunnels as well as
- termination for SSL client vpn tunnels
- option for IPS, content filtering , trend integration
.
But spend some time and really and check out the dataheets on all these products.
Also, If you are a cisco partner there is a management GUI emulator for the RV220W, RV120W, SA500. It does go too deeply into the configuration as it only is a emulator, but it provides a great insight into how easy these products are to configure via their built in GUI's.
https://supportforums.cisco.com/community/netpro/small-business/onlinedemos?view=overview%20target=
regards Dave
