The XPedite5205 PMC/XMC-based Embedded Services Router (ESR) router runs Cisco™ IOS® Software with Cisco Mobile Ready Net capabilities, providing highly secure data, voice, and video communications to stationary and mobile network nodes across wired and wireless links. When combined with UHF, VHF, Wi-Fi and other radio platforms, the combination can create mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), without requiring a connection to central infrastructure for military and emergency response. It extends the Cisco enterprise infrastructure beyond the reach of traditional fixed-network infrastructure for oil and gas, mining, smart grid, heavy construction, transportation, homeland security, and public safety applications.

The router offers high performance, four Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, and a rich Cisco IOS Software feature set, suitable for the most Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP)-constrained applications. To meet the needs of demanding mobile and embedded networking applications, the XPedite5205 ESR provides onboard hardware encryption to off-load encryption processing, radio aware routing (RAR) with support for the latest Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP), support for IPv6, integrated threat control with integrated Cisco IOS firewalls and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), and Quality of Service (QoS). The XPedite5205 ESR uses the same Cisco IOS that IT staffs in the military, energy, public safety, and other industries are already trained on, enabling these organizations to expand their network to personnel, equipment, facilities, and vehicles at the edge of the network – warfighters on the battlefield, mines and drilling platforms, natural disaster mobile command centers – without any additional training.

The XPedite5205 ESR is an air- or conduction-cooled PMC/XMC router card that can plug into existing sockets or be used in stand-alone applications. X-ES provides an XPedite5205 development platform, along with ruggedized, deployable, packaged router systems.

• Runs Cisco IOS software
• Four integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports
• Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) support
• Cisco Mobile Ready Net, which allows for mobile ad hoc networking and radio-aware routing
• On-board hardware acceleration
• Hardware encryption
• Integrated threat control using Cisco IOS Firewall, Cisco IOS Zone-based Firewall, Cisco IOS  Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), and Cisco IOS Content Filtering
• Identity management using authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) and public key infrastructure
• PMC/XMC form factor
• Conduction- or air-cooled