Instead, the team simply ordered 77 Cisco 3945 routers at a cost of $20,661 apiece—that's one $20,000 router for every 13.7 state police employees—and sent them off to the police.

I would assume the 2901 would be on the low-end of that range at ~150Mbps, although I can't find any formal Cisco whitepapers on IPSEC/AES throughput for those routers.

West Virginia wasted millions in federal grant money when it purchased 1,164 Cisco routers for $24 million in 2010, a state audit concluded.

Alyson Behr has more than 15 years of experience writing about technology and has been a contributing editor for leading product-testing labs. The new 3945e router from Cisco Systems is one of four ...

Instead of specifying and purchasing adequate hardware for each location it needed to serve, the state bought a $20,000 Cisco 3945 router for every single location, regardless of size or capacity.

The State's Legislative Auditor wanted to know why the West Virginia bought 1,164 Cisco "model 3945" routers for $24 million.

The new 3945e router from Cisco Systems is one of four new Integrated Services Routers Generation 2 (ISR G2) platforms developed by Cisco to deliver high performance, secure data delivery and unified ...

On Thursday, the state’s governor said he would appoint a special group to review the Cisco contract. At issue is whether the Series 3945 routers were too powerful – and expensive – for ...

Alyson Behr has more than 15 years of experience writing about technology and has been a contributing editor for leading product-testing labs. The new 3945e router from Cisco Systems is one of four ...

The new 3945e router from Cisco Systems is one of four new Integrated Services Routers Generation 2 (ISR G2) platforms developed by Cisco to deliver high performance, secure data delivery and unified ...