The IR829 Industrial Integrated Services Routers (IR829) have a compact form factor, multimode 4G LTE and 3G wireless WAN (dual active LTE and single LTE models), IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN, Ethernet (RJ45 and SFP), serial connections, integrated storage and compute capability for edge application hosting, and integrated 932 VDC power input. The IR829 also extends the connectivity to include Low Power WideArea (LPWA) access using Cisco Interface Module for LoRaWANTM. With it, you can rapidly deploy a wide variety of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, including fleet management, mass transit, and remote asset monitoring. The 829 routers are designed to withstand hostile environments including shock, vibration, and humidity, as well as a wide temperature range (40°C to +60°C and typetested at +85°C for 16 hours). The IR829 brings together enterprisegrade wirelinelike services such as Quality of Service (QoS), Cisco advanced VPN technologies (DMVPN and Flex VPN) and multiVRF for WAN, highly secure data, voice, and video communications and Cisco IOx, an open, extensible environment for hosting applications at the network edge.
| Features | Benefits |
| IoT Enablement | |
| Compact ruggedized form factor | Designed for mobile and hostile outdoor environments, such as fleet vehicle management, mass transit, and many other onthemove IoT applications. |
| Raw socket transport and SCADA | Raw socket can be used to transport Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) data from Remote Terminal Units (RTUs). This method is an alternative to the Block Serial Tunnel (BSTUN) protocol. The IR829 provides DNP3 serial to DNP3/IP translation and IEC 60870 T101 to IEC 60870 T104 protocol translation to serve as a SCADA gateway to do the following: Receive data from RTUs (T101 or DNP3 serial) and relay configuration commands from the Control Center (T104 or DNP3 IP) SCADA applications. Receive configuration commands from the Control Center and relay RTU data to the Control Center. Terminate incoming T104 DNP3 IP requests from the Control Center, when an RTU is offline. |
| Cisco IOx Application Support | Provides an open, extensible environment for hosting OS and applications at the network edge; expansion module slot to enable additional future communication technologies. |
| Cisco IOT Field Network Director | Available as the optional Cisco Industrial Operations Kit. This is a software platform that manages a multiservice network and security infrastructure for IoT applications such as transportation, smart grid, services, distribution automation and substation automation. |
| Lightweight, compact size with low power consumption | Can be deployed in many different environments where space, heat dissipation, and lowpower consumption are critical factors. |
| Increased performance to run concurrent services | Performance allows customers to take advantage of broadband network speeds while running highly secure, concurrent data, voice, video, and wireless services. |
| Enhanced security | An integrated stateful and application inspection firewall provides network perimeter security and hardwareassisted highspeed IP Security (IPsec), Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES) and nextgeneration encryption protocols such as Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) offer data privacy over the Internet. Intrusion prevention enforces security policies in a larger enterprise or service provider network. |
| Integrated WLAN access point | Integrates the Cisco AP803 802.11 a/b/g/n access point with MIMO technology for missioncritical applications. By intelligently avoiding interference, the WLAN feature offers performance protection for 802.11n networks to help ensure reliable application delivery. With dual radios, the Cisco access point can serve both as an access point and as a client to a wireless mesh network concurrently, providing another source for WAN diversity. The Cisco ClientLink feature of the access point improves reliability and coverage for legacy devices. Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) allows detecting and avoiding interference with radar signals to comply with regulatory domains. |
| Multiple WAN and LAN Connections | |
| Four Gigabit Ethernet PoE/PoE+ interfaces | Allows for multiple Ethernet device connectivity in a small office or other remote location with the ability to designate a port as the network edge. VLANs for switching capabilities. InterVLAN routing capabilities. 30W of PoE/PoE+ shared across the four Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. Only available with IR829M, IR829GW (option), and IR8292LTE (option) models. |
| Two serial interfaces | Two asynchronous serial interfaces (one RS232 port and one RS232/RS485 port) that can be used with Raw Socket, Protocol Translation and IOx applications to provide two serial connections to local RTU for SCADA transport and RTU management. |
| WAN diversity | Multiple WAN links are supported: Gigabit Ethernet or Fast Ethernet layer3 SFP and 4G LTE provide for business continuity and WAN diversity. |
| Dual active LTE interfaces1 | Concurrent connectivity to two cellular networks for high reliability, load balancing and differentiated services. |
| LoRaWAN | Extend the IR829 connectivity to include LowPower WideArea (LPWA) access using Cisco Interface Module for LoRaWANTM. For more information, please visit https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/routers/interfacemodulelorawan . |
| Transparent Roaming Between Wireless Networks | |
| Dual Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) support2 | Dual SIM feature provides reliability and multihoming capabilities over LTE and HSPAbased networks. Note: Dual SIM active/backup mode is supported only on single LTE models of the IR829. |
| 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 missioncritical 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 StandardsBased Cisco IOS Software | |
| Advanced security features | Authorization and authentication determine 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. The nextgeneration protocol suites enable users to monitor potential malicious activity on the network. IPsec over IPv4 and IPv6, IPsec stateful failover, VRFaware IPsec, DMVPN, FlexVPN and PMIPv6. |
| Routing | Enables advanced routing capabilities using EIGRP, MPBGP, IPv4 and IPv6 on all interfaces including cellular, IPv4/IPv6 Multicast, Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) and multipoint GRE (MGRE), NAT, DNS Proxy and Spoofing, IP SLA and QoS. |
| QoS features | Provides traffic precedence to delaysensitive or mission critical services. Facilitates lowlatency routing of delaysensitive industrial applications. Supported on all LAN and WAN interfaces including Cellular. LTE QoS with support for up to 8 concurrent bearers on each cellular WAN interface for traffic classification and prioritization. |
| 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 SNMPv1/v2/v3, Telnet, or HTTP/HTTPS/SSHv2, and locally through a console port. Support for extensive 3G and 4G LTEbased MIBs allows for centralized management of remote devices and gives network managers visibility into and control over the network configuration at the remote site. Network managers can reset to a predesignated golden image, as well as configure an IR829 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. The tight integration with Cisco IOS Software enables router to selfmonitor the LTE WAN link and automatically recover from a radio link failure. |
