Cisco Routers
June 08, 2024
Cisco Routers
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Routers
They are used at our corporate office, and at our branches. We pulled them out of our datacenters because they did not meet our needs from a feature perspective. We use them for normal branch DIA, IPS, and AutoVPN back to a concentrator behind more capable firewalls/routers.
Pros
- CLI
- Flexability
- Feature Set
- Ease of Use
Cons
- Licencing
- product line simplification
- sd-wan without vedge container
- They have gotten much more expensive from a licensing perspective making numbers harder to quantify.
- Allowed us to go from 2 box model to one box model
- allowed us to reduce mpls costs.
DNA center integration, Trust Sec, REST APIs
We only recently learned about the built in IPS and ZBFW in IOS-XE and are starting to explore it as an option. This would be preferable to us vs Meraki MX.
Cisco Routers are highly reliable. This is why we need to see more of the next generation features available on the Meraki platform to be available on XE so that we can get rid of Meraki which we have not have a great experience with in the past from a reliability perspective.
In my opinion, we do not like the Meraki MX compared to Cisco Routers. It is not flexible enough for our needs and is only really viable for very simple east to west traffic. From my experience, for a "Firewall" it has an awful policy management interface that manages to be so featureless but so confusing at the same time.
Do you think Cisco Routers delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with Cisco Routers's feature set?
Yes
Did Cisco Routers live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Cisco Routers go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Cisco Routers again?
Yes
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