As a leading manufacturer of network products, Cisco backs them with all necessary software. Cisco system software provides common functionality, scalability, and security for Cisco products and allows centralized, integrated, and automated installation and management of networks, while ensuring support for a wide variety of protocols, media, services, and platforms.

Provides additional IP service features such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Enhanced Interior Gateway Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS), policy-based routing (PBR), HSRP, PIM, DVMRP tunneling, and Multi-Virtual Routing Forwarding Customer Edge (Multi-VRF CE); also includes IP Base license.