IRM-1100-4S8I Expansion Module

Cisco Catalyst Rugged Series Routers, IOS XE Release 17.18.1a

New software features for Cisco Catalyst Rugged Series Routers, Release 17.18.1a

Product Impact: Ease of Use
Feature: IRM-1100-4S8I Expansion Module
Description: You can now enhance your IR1101 router's networking capabilities by enabling additional connectivity and I/O options with the newly introduced the IRM-1100-4S8I Expansion Module. This module adds four SFP ports and eight Digital I/O connections, providing greater flexibility for your network deployments.
Supported device: **IR1101

Product Impact: Ease of Use
Feature: Support for jumbo frames
Description: You can now improve your network efficiency and optimize bandwidth usage by enabling support for jumbo frames on the IRM-1100-4S8I Expansion Module. This feature allows MTU sizes of up to 9216 bytes, facilitating larger data transfers and reducing overhead.
Supported device:** IR1101

Product Impact: Software Reliability
Feature: IP Device Tracking on routers
Description: You can now enhance your network security and monitoring capabilities by enabling IP Device Tracking with SISF support on LAN ports. This allows for comprehensive IPv4 device monitoring and improved security posture through integrated device tracking.
Supported devices:** IR1101 and IR1800

Product Impact: Ease of Use
Feature: VRF for the P-LTE-450 module
Description: You can now enable VRF to provision LTE450 parameters through the LTE450 management interface. You can also enable VRF on 450 PIM management interface to enable HTTP request from router to the webserver of P-LTE-450 and get response from the webserver of P-LTE-450.
Supported devices:** IR1101 and IR1800 (For IR1800, P-LTE-450 is supported only on slot 0/4.)

Product Impact: Ease of Use
Feature: Product Analytics
Description: Cisco IOS XE Product Analytics collects device Systems Information for the purposes of understanding product usage, enabling product improvements and product development, and assisting in product adoption and sales support. Only summarized data of feature usage and statistical counters of configuration are collected. No personal identifiable information, such as MAC/IP addresses, usernames, custom configuration names, or user provided strings, are collected as part of Cisco IOS XE Product Analytics. Cisco processes this data following the General Terms, the Cisco Privacy Statement, and any other applicable agreement with Cisco.

Product Impact: Ease of Use
Feature: Inline Tagging on switch interfaces
Description: You can now implement CTS Inline Tagging to enable end-to-end Cisco TrustSec architecture without the complexity and scalability challenges of SXP peering, ensuring that the CMD header in Ethernet frames is carried through to the network security enforcement point.
Supported devices: IR1101 and IR1800