Ordering ISR 4400 for HQ

[Waheed Bahaduri]

Hello,

As mentioned on Cisco website that ISR 4400 routers are built for Branch-Offices,  but due to the cost for ASR Routers,  Instead of ASR I want to order Cisco ISR 4400 for my company Head-Office.

Also because my company is small and we don't have heavy operations.   I want to know- isn't there any such restrictions from Technical point for not using ISR 4400  series  routers at HQ ?

Thanks for your views

[Leo Laohoo]

The first question you want to ask yourself is this:  What is the present bandwidth of the HQ and what will the bandwidth be like 3 years from now.

[Waheed Bahaduri]

it is/will not be above 200-300 Mbps

[Leo Laohoo]

it is/will not be above 200-300 Mbps

You're looking at a minimum a 4431.  300 Mbps, in Cisco "language", is measured as a one-way-traffic and no encryption.  If you want to two way traffic OR with encryption you will need to double your value of "300 Mbps" and this brings a total of "600 Mbps".  This is where 4431 sits.  

If you want two-way-traffic AND encryption, then you need to take your value of "300 Mbps" and multiple it by four and you'll get "1200 Mbps".  This is where the 4451-X sits.   These are your choices.

[Waheed Bahaduri]

Thanks alot Leo for detailed clarification

[Bilal Aslam]

Hi Leo,

I'm also looking at ISR4431-AX/K9 for several sites.

Cisco site says that AX license includes both Data and Security licenses but I can't  find detailed feature set of the AX license which mentions routing protocols such as EIGRP/BGP/OSPF.

ISR 4000 series does not have separate data license unlike 3900 and 2900 series. So, I want to make sure that AX does support all features of data license. Can you please help me with that?