Cisco Systems is making big strides in the security space. Of the many moves they have made, one of the more interesting (and quieter) is building two blades for their immensely popular Integrated Services Router (ISR) router family. There are over 3 million ISR’s deployed today. The modular design of the ISR makes it a great platform for rolling out new capabilities. Here is an interesting pair:
- a video encoding blade that can encode analog video
- a management blade, that can store video (on a hard disk) and make it available for viewing & management
Together, these add DVR functionality to the ISR router. Look out, all you DVR vendors, the 800 pound gorilla just built the perfect DVR platform!
Expect many more interesting moves from Cisco in this area in the future.
