Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)

I've had as many as six VMs running concurrently on a laptop with 32 gigs. This makes it easy to lab up many routing/VPN scenarios. Great study and practice tool. This makes it easy to experiment with technologies or topologies that it would otherwise be difficult to do. How many people can say they've got a half-dozen or more full-featured routers available and the power to run them.

Incentivized

• Cloud gateway
• Traffic engineering
• VPN/VPC-based zones, DMVPN

Incentivized

• Features on demand for more money is kind of annoying.
• Seemed like there was an excessive amount of IP addresses I needed to assign to get it to work even though I didn't use them.
• Cost is high for a piece of software.

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Neither product supported all the protocols we needed to allow all of our locations to route. It does add some complications to the gateway and vnet setup though. Once we retired our ISRs we were able to go to Meraki vMX and the auto-vpn setup works rather well and is much simpler than IOS configs

Incentivized

• We barely have to touch the routers as they are rock solid.
• They are a bit costly to what else is in the market.
• The low end routers still include firewalling.

Incentivized