Cisco Broadband VPN Router(s) Question

[ltcolfury]

I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions in regards to which model(s) of Cisco Routers they would recommend?

I have never used a Cisco router before. Currently, I use the Netopia 4686-XL for all of my broadband connections for my companies. (I use different Netopia models for my T1's)

Does Cisco offer a Broadband VPN router with Hardware Acceleration installed along with a GUI configuration? (Or a GUI & CLI would be fine as well)

I am looking for a more robust VPN Broadband router(s) with hardware acceleration installed to handle a heavy traffic workload.

Thank you very much in advance for any information you could provide.

[JORGE RODRIGUEZ]

You can look at any of the 800 series SOHO type broadband product line, look at the data sheets , they do support Cisco security device manager (SDM) which is gui interface, I believe the 831, 836, and 837 routers have ipsec hardware acceleration but not sure look in data sheet for each product it should porvide that information.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps380/index.html

You may look product throughput stats

http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/downloads/765/tools/quickreference/routerperformance.pdf

HTH

Rgds

Jorge