The New ISR 4221, the New Cisco DNA-Ready

Platform
Cisco has updated its Cisco 4000 Series Router Family. The
new member-Cisco 4221 ISRs has been added to this popular family.
What benefits does this new 4221 ISRs bring to us? Customers
nickname the Cisco ISR 4000 Series as the Swiss Army Knife of
branch networking. It is praised for its versatility and adaptability all
in one box very much like the pocket utility knife. And the new ISR
4221 is no different: small, but mighty.
Now the Cisco 4000 Series contains six platforms: the 4451, 4431,
4351, 4331, 4321 and the new 4221 ISRs

Whats New on ISR 4421? The ISR 4221 is mightier than the ISR
G2, vis--vis ISR 1921 and 1941. It is a desktop-like, industrially
designed 1RU box priced cost-effectively for mid-markets.
Cisco ISR 4221 Key Highlights:
1. It meets all digital network requirements
You can check the newest Benefits of Migrating to Cisco 4000 Series
Integrated Services Routers here:

2. With respect to performance, the ISR 4221 kicks it up a notch

with throughput starting at 35 and upgradeable up to 75 Mbps.
3. Despite a 1RU form factor, this economical Swiss Army Knife
has unmatched values in its class for a few reasons:
a. It has multi-services support for SD-WAN and is programmable
and automated with APIC-EM controller and IWAN app for
consistent business-driven and policy-based operations across
network domains.
b. It is an application-aware platform complete with Intelligent Path
Control (PfR), application visibility (NBAR2) and Network Contention
Control (H/QoS).

c. It comes with Cisco IOS built-in security features for complete

branch threat defense, such as Zone-based Firewall, FirePOWER
Threat Defense, Network Address Translation (NAT), and IPSec VPN.
d. It is a standard-based Linux virtualization platform. With Linux
Virtual Container (LXC), signed network service like Snort IPS can be
spin up as virtual machine any time.
e. It is equipped with up to 28 integrated switch ports a true allin-one platform for pop-up or micro branches where the average
square footage is as little as 350-sf.
f. It supports IPv6 and legacy WAN connectivity, such as 3G/4G LTE,
for IoT use cases such as ATM/Kiosk or industrial environments
without dedicated MPLS transport.
For in-depth details, you can check out Model Comparison: ISR 4321
vs. 4331 vs. 4351 vs. 4431 vs. 4451 Router
The new Cisco ISR 4221 is available beginning mid-November. And it
will ship with latest Cisco IOS-XE release.
Introducing the Cisco IOS XE Open Service Containers
More about the Cisco 4000 Series ISRs Family
The Cisco 4000 Series is built on a multicore CPU architecture. It
runs modular Cisco IOS XE Software, which allows the platform to
use to full advantage a distributed multicore architecture. The
architecture of the Cisco 4000 Series separates control- and dataplane operations and integrates an industry-first services plane. This
design delivers full-featured integrated services up to Layer 7 at
high performance, with the ability to deliver application-aware
network services while maintaining a stable platform and a high
level of performance during periods of heavy network traffic.
The 4000 Series consists of three subseries of routersthe 4400
Series, the 4300 Series, and the 4200 Series.
Cisco 4000 Series ISRs Performance Comparison

Throughout the 4000 Series, all platforms come with fixed maximum
performance levels. One fixed base performance level is delivered
as the factory default, with an optional performance-on-demand
license to increase the base forwarding throughput. This scenario
enables deployment in high-speed WAN environments through
performance-on-demand licensing to double or, for one of the
platforms, triple the router capacity without any hardware upgrades.
All 4000 Series platforms have their fixed performance levels set
well within actual capacity, with the result that performance does
not necessarily degrade when a service is added to the
configuration. This setup provides a deterministic performance,
eliminating a network administrators guesswork when planning for
new services.
OIR (online insertion and removal) is supported on the Cisco 4000
Series (But the Cisco 4221 does not support OIR.) for the
following scenarios:
Surprise insertion or removal of any NIM in any of the NIM slots
Surprise insertion or removal of any SM-X in the SM-X slots
Surprise insertion or removal of any power supply or system PoE
conversion module
Surprise replacement of the system fan tray; note, however, that
this replacement must take place quickly enough that the system
does not overheat, and depending on altitude and ambient
temperature, the amount of time can vary greatly
Note that SM-X and NIM modules allow replacement only for
like-to-like modules. A faulty module can be replaced with a good

module of the same type but cannot be replaced with a completely

different module of a different type.
There is only one PVDM slot on the motherboard across the Cisco
4000 Series.
But the ISR 4221 does not have any PVDM slot.

Learn more about ISR 4221 via the following resources:

Nov 8th at 12 noon PT tune in to Cisco Champion Radio to

hear Dax Choksi and Lauren Friedman discuss key highlights
about the ISR 4221.

Nov 10th at 9:30 a.m. local time at Cisco Live Cancun,

catch a new product introduction PSO session (PSOCRS-2221)
with Shankarnarayan Dharmarajan and also see a live demo of
the new WebUI.

Cisco.com for your perusal, view a collection of collaterals

about ISR 4221: At-a-Glance, Data Sheet, and FAQ

The main info from http://blogs.cisco.com/enterprise/introducingnew-cisco-dna-ready-platform

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