In June of 2013 Cisco released the newest member of the ISR family, the ISR4451-X router (Cisco –
blog post). At that time it was the only model in the ISR44xx line, but today it now has some new siblings. Today, October 2, 2014, Cisco has introduced some companious, namely the ISR 4321, 4331, 4351, and 4431.
The below graphic from Cisco that shows the new line and the performance characteristcs of each. You will note, for example, that the ISR4321 says 50–100 Mbps. The base version of the device will support 50 Mbps, but to move to 100 Mbps on that box you just need a software license. This will allow a network to grow with it needs without having to replace hardware, you will just have to add a license file. Back in the ISR G1/G2 days we need to sometime replace hardwre in order to gain additional performance, but that is not the case with the ISR 4000 series. Much of that comes thanks to Cisco using
IOS-XE on these devices. A quick blurb IOS-XE from the previous link is :
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The time has come to announce the guest closing Keynote speaker for Thursday! This information is hot off the press so be prepared for some serious excitement!
The closing Keynote speaker is going to be just AWESOME. I have been asking, as well as have others, for a few years to get this man for the closing keynote. He is a person whom I have a lot of respect for. I respect him because he has embraced the cause to teach us about hard work. determination, and perseverance.. I will also admit that he is a man who I have a “man crush” on. Without further delay and embellishment, it is none other than the former late night host of QVC,_ **Mike Rowe**_! (Yeah OK – he has done a few other great shows like Somebody’s Gotta Do It and voice overs since his time at QVC).
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I finally did it! I cut the cord on cable today (2/7/15).
I have been considering cutting the cord for about a year or so now, but never was really motivated to cut it. My cable bill was high (over $200/mo), but I was in a bundled package with my cable, internet, and phone – so the amount of work to get out of that just seemed to much. That was until I received my January 2015 cable bill – that bill was almost $300/mo! Not sure what happened, but from what I can understand all the cable companies (not just mine) prices jumped in January 2015. Finally the pain of paying that bill every month was too great for me to bear anymore and I started the work for cutting the cord.
The first thing I actually did was start to look at ordering TV from a satellite provider as that rate would be less than I was paying now. I was so close to ordering oh so many times, eventually realized that I would be getting myself back into a long-term contract again. I said to myself and my wife that it was time to just bite the bullet and figure this out.
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I recently purchased a Juniper J2320 from eBay for a fair price. I know it is an older router, but it has the features I need in order to test and write a few things. When I received the router it was not sent with a wiped config, so I was unable to log into it upon booting.
Since I need to recover the device, figured might as well write and share how to do it!
Obviously the first thing you will need will be a Serial connection to the device. I am assuming you have a USB -> Serial adapter, if not this is the one I have and I got it from Amazon here