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Data Sheet

Cisco 880G and 890G Series 4G LTE 2.0

Integrated Services Routers

The Cisco® 880G and 890G Series 4G LTE 2.0 Integrated Services Routers with Cisco IOS® Software offer support for integrated fourth-generation (4G LTE) wireless WAN (mobile broadband backhaul), WLAN capabilities (C897VAGW Model) and cutting-edge capabilities. The Cisco 880G and 890G Series ISRs provide a rapidly deployable, highly available, reliable, and secure solution designed to combine Internet access, comprehensive security, and wireless services in a single device that is easy to deploy and manage for primary or backup connectivity (Figure 1). Customers that would benefit from these routers include small businesses, remote small or medium-sized or power branches, financial services firms, healthcare organizations, pop-up stores, point-of-sale systems, and retail businesses. Fully integrated with Cisco IOS Software, the Cisco 880G and 890G routers deliver enterprise-class features, including highly secure data, voice, and video communications to stationary and mobile network nodes across wired and wireless links. The best-in-class Cisco 880G and 890G Series architecture is specifically designed to deliver high performance with concurrent services, business continuity, and investment protection. The Cisco 880G and 890G 4G LTE 2.0 series are the industry leader to bring enterprise grade wireline like functionality such as Quality of Service (QoS) for cellular, Multi-Virtual Route Forwarding (Multi-VRF), advanced VPN, and Unified Communications solutions over LTE.

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Figure 1. Cisco C899G-LTE Integrated Services Router

The Cisco® 880G and 890G Series LTE 2.0 routers also provide the ability to extend Cisco product-based networks to remote power branch offices with a relatively low incremental investment, as well as to enable managed services offerings based on end-to-end Cisco system architecture.

Product Overview

The Cisco 880G and 890G Series 4G LTE 2.0 ISRs are fixed-configuration routers that provide collaborative business solutions for secure voice and data communications to enterprise small branch offices, with support for the latest Third-Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 9 standards for 4G LTE. They provide persistent, reliable LTE connectivity with fallback and transparent handoff to earlier technologies. The routers are designed to deliver secure broadband, Metro Ethernet or any xDSL variants, wireless WAN (WWAN) connectivity, and business continuity. Additionally, the Cisco 897VAGW ISR supports enterprise class built-in Wireless LAN (WLAN) capability They also come with powerful management tools, such as the web-based Cisco Configuration Professional configuration management tool, which simplifies setup and deployment.

●Cisco 4G LTE 2.0: Multimode LTE 2.0 for carriers that operate LTE 800-MHz (band 20), 900-MHz (band 8), 1800-MHz (band 3), 2100-MHz (band 1), or 2600-MHz (band 7) networks; the multimode 880G and 890G Series 4G LTE 2.0 routers are backward-compatible with Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service (UMTS) and High-Speed Packet Access Plus (HSPA+): 850 MHz (band 5) , 900 MHz (band 8), 1900 MHz (band 2), and 2100 MHz (band 1)

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●C899G-LTE-NA-K9: Multimode Cisco LTE 2.0 for carriers that operate LTE 700 MHz (band 17), 1900 MHz (band 2 PCS), 850 MHz (band 5) or 1700/2100 MHz (band 4 AWS) networks; backward-compatible with UMTS and HSPA+: 850 MHz (band 5), 900 MHz (band 8), 1900 MHz (band 2 PCS), and 1700/2100 MHz (band 4 AWS).

●C899G-LTE-VZ-K9 and C899G-LTE-ST-K9: Multimode Cisco LTE 2.0 for carriers that operate LTE 700 MHz (band 13), 1700/2100 MHz (band 4 AWS), or 1900 MHz (band 25 extended PCS) networks; backward-compatible with EVDO Rev A/CDMA 1x BC0, BC1, BC10.

●C899G-LTE-JP-K9: Multimode Cisco LTE 2.0 for carriers that operate LTE 800 MHz (band 19), 1500 MHz (band 21), and 2100 MHz (band 1) networks; backward-compatible with UMTS and HSPA+: 850 MHz (band 5), 800 MHz (band 6), 800 MHz (band 19), and 2100 MHz (band 1).

The Cisco 880G and 890G Series 4G LTE 2.0 ISRs provide a broad range of enterprise-class features, including:

●Security services, such as firewall, intrusion prevention, VPN, and Cisco ISR Web Security with Cisco ScanSafe, which require no additional hardware or client software, This enables branch offices, manufacturing sites, hospitals, banks, and mobile fleets, for example, to intelligently redirect web traffic to the cloud to enforce granular security and acceptable use policies over user web traffic. With this solution, you can deploy market-leading web security quickly and easily to protect branch-office users from webbased threats, such as viruses, while saving bandwidth, money, and resources.

●Additional WAN options, such as Gigabit Ethernet WAN interfaces and an 8-port 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet managed switch for LAN connectivity. The Cisco 880G and 890G Series ISRs provide quality-of- service (QoS) features for optimizing voice and video applications.

●Cisco Configuration Professional, a web-based configuration tool that simplifies setup and deployment. Centralized management capabilities give network managers visibility into and control over the network configurations at remote sites.

●WWAN services, offering enhanced data rates and improved latency (30 ms or less)—an ideal way to supplement traditional wireline services. The 4G LTE WWAN data services offered today have average data rates well in excess of ISDN speeds, with theoretical limits of 100 Mbps on the downlink and 50 Mbps on the uplink. The actual data speed depends on the service provider’s network. With 4G LTE data rates, the Cisco 4G LTE 2.0 WWAN offers a primary WAN link solution capable of running comprehensive branchoffice services, including voice and video services. The 4G LTE WWAN data services can also be used as a cost-effective alternative in areas where broadband services are either not available or very expensive. Cisco is building on these performance milestones and adding support for wireless to our wide variety of WAN interface alternatives.

Business Benefits and Application Examples

Businesses are looking for ways to reduce costs, increase revenue, and improve business continuity. The 4G LTE wireless connectivity, which is 10 to 15 times faster and has 5 times lower latency than 3G links, allows a small enterprise branch office or remote office to set up comprehensive media services in a matter of hours, without worrying about availability of broadband services or the need to lay down the lines. Wireless carriers offer flexible, usage-based data plans that can be customized to meet the needs and price points of the business customer. As WAN backup alternatives, 3G and 4G LTE wireless offer greater WAN diversity and resiliency because they are independent of the local terrestrial infrastructure. The Cisco 880G and 890G help businesses stay productive during service provider downtime or a network failure with Cisco Intelligent WAN diversity and Cisco Application

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Visibility & Control (IWAN & AVC LTE support with C890 series). The 802.11a/b/g/n 2X3 MIMO built-in Cisco 3500

Access Point (AP) in the Cisco 897VAGW, comes with Cisco’s CleanAir technology, to create a self-healing, selfoptimizing WLAN. Moreover, with the advantage of dual radio, the integrated AP can serve both as an access point and as a client to a wireless mesh network. This provides another source for WAN diversity along with Gigabit Ethernet, xDSL, and LTE cellular. The AP ClientLink feature improves reliability and coverage for legacy devices and dynamic frequency selection (DFS allows detecting and avoiding interference with radar signals to comply with regulatory domains. Cisco 897VAGW ISR with integrated 4G LTE and 802.11 a/b/g/n AP. The dual radio WLAN on the 897VAGW can serve as both a client and an access-point. More information on the Cisco 3500 Access Point is available at https://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/wireless/ps5678/ps10981/data_sheet_c78-594630.html

Ability to Host Networks in Motion

The Cisco 880G and 890G use standards-based mobile IP features in Cisco IOS Software to host networks in motion. Transitions to different wireless networks are transparent to the users and devices (such as laptops, smart devices, and surveillance cameras), and applications maintain continuous connectivity without the user’s manual intervention as WAN links change. In addition to allowing a single node or device to stay connected, the Cisco 880G and 890G allow an entire mobile network or subnet to stay connected.

Retail VPN

Retail stores migrating from dialup connections for point-of-sale transactions can use the 4G LTE WWAN option on the Cisco 880G or 890G for low-cost broadband access, with the security required to comply with payment card industry (PCI) and other data security requirements. Multiple devices and applications can then be added to the store network to take advantage of the increased bandwidth and to enable secure mobility and enhance productivity.

Managed Services

Service providers and value-added resellers (VARs) can use the Cisco 880G or 890G as a platform to offer differentiated business-class security and wireless LAN (WLAN) services for small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers. Superior management capabilities, such as Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) support for 3G MIB with 4G MIB extension and Cisco Configuration Professional, make remote management and provisioning easier.

●Multiple-PDN: This feature allows configuration of multiple active (Access Point Name) APN so that Internet traffic can be kept separate from the corporate traffic.

●4G LTE multiple-bearer QoS for cellular: The Cisco 880G and 890G 4G LTE 2.0 supports 4G LTE multiple-bearer QoS. Detailed information on the bearer is part of show CLI, SNMP-MIBs etc. The QoS feature is service provider (SP) dependent, and requires SP to launch this service.

●Multi-VRF for cellular: 4G LTE 2.0 now support Multi-VRF for cellular network. Multi-VRF is a Cisco proprietary implementation over and above the 3GPP spec and requires Cisco ASR5K Packet Gateway (P- GW) as the head-end at the service provider’s network. The Multi-VRF feature is service provider (SP) dependent, and requires SP to launch this service.

●Enterprise grade Unified Communication solutions over LTE: The Cisco 880G and 890G 4G LTE 2.0 supports voice and video and can be integrated with Cisco Unified Communications cloud or premisesbased infrastructure.

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●Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN Search): UE presents end user with available PLMN search manually. UE can optimize PLMN search procedure using stored information such as RF carriers and cell parameters.

Primary Features and Benefits

Table 1.	Features and Benefits of the Cisco 880G and 890G Series 4G LTE 2.0 ISRs
Feature		Benefits
Smallest Cisco ISR in Nonhardened Form Factors
Lightweight, compact size with low		● Can be deployed in many different environments where space, heat dissipation, and low power
power consumption		consumption are critical factors.
Increased performance to run		● Performance allows customers to take advantage of broadband network speeds while running
concurrent services		secure, concurrent data, voice, video, and wireless services.
Enhanced security		● An integrated stateful and application inspection firewall provides network perimeter security and
		high-speed IP Security (IPsec); Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES) and Advanced Encryption
		Standard (AES) encryption offer data privacy over the Internet.
		● Intrusion prevention enforces security policies in a larger enterprise or service provider network.
		● Content filtering offers category-based URL classification and blocking, thus helping increase
		productivity and providing better use of company resources.
		● ScanSafe web security and filtering solution requires no additional hardware or client software.
		Enables remote locations to intelligently redirect web traffic to the cloud to enforce granular security
		and acceptable use policies over user web traffic.
Multiple WAN and LAN Connections
4-port 10/100-Mbps or 8-port		● Allows connectivity for multiple Ethernet devices in a small office or other remote location with the
10/100/1000-Mbps managed switch		ability to designate a port as the network edge.
		● VLANs allow for secure segmentation of network resources.
		● Multiple LAN and WAN devices can be connected to standard Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet.
WAN diversity		● Multiple WAN links are supported: Gigabit Ethernet (copper or SFP option), any xDSL variants, and
		4G LTE provide for business continuity and WAN diversity.
Integrated WLAN Access Point		● Integrates the Cisco 3500 802.11 a/b/g/n Access Point for mission-critical applications. By
		intelligently avoiding interference, the WLAN feature offers performance protection for 802.11n
		networks to help ensure reliable application delivery. The 2X3 MIMO AP comes with Cisco’s
		CleanAir technology, the industry’s first to create a self-healing, self-optimizing wireless network.
		● With dual radios, the Cisco AP can serve both as an access point and as a client to a wireless
		mesh network concurrently, providing another source for WAN diversity.
		● The AP ClientLink feature improves reliability and coverage for legacy devices
		● Dynamic frequency selection (DFS) allows detecting and avoiding interference with radar signals to
		comply with regulatory domains. More information on the Cisco 3500 AP is available at:
		https://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/wireless/ps5678/ps10981/data_sheet_c78-
		594630.html

Transparent Roaming Between Wireless Networks

Dual subscriber-identity-module (SIM)	● Dual SIM provides for high reliability and cellular multihoming support for LTE and HSPA-based
support	networks using common firmware and technology within the same region (only on all -GA and
	C899G-LTE-JP-K9 PIDs)
Cisco IOS Mobile IP features	● Mobile IP offers transparent roaming for mobile networks, establishing a transparent Internet
	connection regardless of location or movement. This enables mission-critical applications to stay
	connected even when roaming between networks.
	● Assigned IP addresses to the home network are maintained in private or public networks.
Cisco IOS Mobile network features	● Allows an entire subnet or mobile network to maintain connectivity to the home network
	while roaming.
Multiple wireless WAN technologies	● Users can use the best wireless (4G LTE, 3.7G, 3.5G, or 3G) technology or network available.

Advanced IP Services in Standards-Based Cisco IOS Software

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Feature	Benefits
Advanced security features	● Authorization and authentication determines which individuals and devices have access to
	the network.
	● Firewall protection provides perimeter security when using public networks.
	● 3DES and AES encryption provide for highly secure VPNs when transmitting and receiving data
	over public networks.
	● Intrusion detection monitors potential malicious activity within the network.
QoS features	● Provides traffic precedence to delay-sensitive or prioritized applications.
	● Facilitates low-latency routing of delay-sensitive applications such as streaming video.
IP Multicast	● Allows efficient broadcast of data or video for increased situational awareness, multiuser
	communications, or surveillance applications.
Management and manageability	● Network managers can remotely manage and monitor networks with SNMP, Telnet, or HTTP, and
	locally through a console port.
	● Support for extensive 3Gand 4G LTE-based MIBs allows for centralized management of remote
	devices and gives network managers visibility into and control over the network configurations at
	the remote site.
	● Network managers can reset to a predesignated golden image as well as configure an ISR through
	Cisco IOS Software or through an external reset button.
	● Network managers can upgrade 3G, 3.5G, 3.7G, and 4G LTE firmware and router configurations
	remotely and confirm enhancement verification.
	● Tight integration with Cisco IOS Software allows you to self-monitor the functions of the 3G, 3.5G,
	3.7G, and 4G LTE modems and automatically recover from a failure.
	● Cisco Configuration Professional provides a web-based tool that simplifies setup and deployment.
	● Intuitive network management tools such as Cisco Prime™ and HP OpenView are supported.
	● IOx support with 3rd party Cisco certify APP running on 2nd core.

Product Specifications

Tables 2 and 3 summarize the routers in the Cisco 880G and 890G Series, respectively.

For common platform-specific details with extensive and rich Cisco IOS Software features set on both the Cisco 880 and 890 Series ISRs, go to:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/887-integrated-services-router- isr/data_sheet_c78_459542.html

Table 2.	Cisco 880G Series 4G LTE 2.0 ISRs
Model		WAN Interface	LAN Interface	802.11a/g/n	Embedded Cisco 4G	Integrated ISDN
				Option	LTE 2.0	Dial Backup
C881G-4G		10/100-Mbps Fast Ethernet	4-port 10/100-Mbps	No	Yes (Sierra Wireless	No
			managed switch		MC7304 with Qualcomm
C887VAG-4G		Multimode VDSL2/ADSL2/2+ over
			With 2-port Power		MDM9215 for all –GA
		basic telephone service (POTS) or
or					Global/Australia)
			over Ethernet
		ISDN
C886VAG-LTE			(PoE) option

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	Table 3.	Cisco 890G Series 4G LTE 2.0 ISRs
	Model		WAN Interface	LAN Interface	802.11a/g/n	Embedded Cisco 4G	Integrated ISDN
					Option	LTE 2.0	Dial Backup
	C899G-LTE		1 port Gigabit Ethernet or 1 port	8-port 10/100/	No	Yes (Sierra Wireless	No
			SFP	1000-Mbps		C899G-LTE –NA MC7354
			1 port Gigabit Ethernet	managed switch		and –VZ –ST MC7350
						with Qualcomm
				With 4-port Power
	C896VAG-LTE		1 port Gigabit Ethernet or 1 port		No	MDM9615)
				over Ethernet (PoE)
			SFP
				option
			VDSL/ADSL2+ Annex B			Yes (Sierra Wireless
	C897VAG-LTE		1 port Gigabit Ethernet or 1 port		No	MC7304 with Qualcomm
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