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    Cisco Routers

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACisco routers support secure, reliable enterprise connections. These enterprise routers help users implement an intent-based, future-ready WAN that is constantly learning, adapting, and protecting. Deploy routers for the branch, cloud, co-location, or the data center with any type of connectivity, including MPLS, Internet, and 4G LTE. With over 30 years of experience and an end-to-end portfolio, Cisco routing solutions can deliver for today’s networking needs. The vendor promises to help…N/A

    HPE Enterprise Routers

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AHewlett-Packard offers enterprise routers.N/A
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    Cisco RoutersHPE Enterprise Routers
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    Chose Cisco Routers
    Cisco has been the top vendor while selecting the router, they are always on the list. Cisco has been very up-to-date with current market trends and technology. Cisco has better material available over the Internet, so Cisco has better competency compared with any other vendor, …
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Chose HPE Enterprise Routers
    HPE routers performs upto the mark, it basically provides the connectivity to external and internal networks, however sometime the crashes happen in the routers make them look bad. Overall, I am satisfied with the product they use most open-source stuff which makes them easily …
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    Would buy again
    97%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
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    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
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    Cisco Routers
    Score9 out of 10
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    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco RoutersHPE Enterprise Routers
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    User Testimonials
    Cisco RoutersHPE Enterprise Routers
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Cisco Routers, particularly ASRs, are well suited at the edge or perimeter of your network topology since they're capable of aggregating large data and performing fast packet processing. To be even more specific, they are great at handling full internet BGP route tables and aggregating multiple WAN connections. Some scenarios where they may be less appropriate might be for much smaller sites running less critical services that may not need "state of the art" enterprise routers.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    HPE routers are best suited for the mid-sized enterprises, they have proven ability to cope up the LAN traffic, as well as traffic runs between two different sites, by using the MPLS or VPLS circuits. In our environment, we are keeping the HPE routers at the edge of the network connected with the firewall on the backend which segregates the inside and outside traffic. We are running the BGP protocol to load balance the inbound and outbound traffic coming from different admin routers.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Helps to separate routing information for different networks for different customers.
    • Helps peers with service providers and Customer Networks and starts the exchange of information between them.
    • Helps facilitate internet connectivity for enterprise networks.
    • Helps transferring Internet or Private Data from one place to another.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Routing
    • Establishing the MPLS connectivity
    • VPN
    • BGP
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • It will be helpful if configuration can be done using a http GUI
    • Graphical Visualizing provisioned VPN services will helps in troubleshooting
    • Software upgrade process should have an automated way, that helps in managing large no of devices in the network
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • HPE routers can start building the Service Provider Grade routers.
    • HPE routers can have better support experience.
    • HPE routers can lower the prices.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    We are extremely likely to renew, as we have been very happy with our Cisco Routers for over 10 years. Their uptime as well as stable nature makes them ideal for us, as we are an industry that cannot afford downtime. We trust our partner to recommend our next model Cisco, when the time comes.
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    Usability
    Cisco
    The best thing about Cisco products is their presence in community. When you have a problem you can do quick search and find whoever else had the same question and expert answer for that question. Other thing is there are Cisco certified people we can find very easily if want some help with comissioning these products
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    Cisco support is very good. Of course, sometime you will run into support guy that isn't up to the task. Buf overall, the support system is well structure. You know if this support isn't able to help, you can esclate the situation to find another help. Also, their documentation is well developed and can be very useful.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Other vendors definitely bring some great features. We've gone from Fortinet to HPE, to Ruckus. Each product has benefits to consider. For us, Cisco is a trusted brand that's used about thousands of customers and many fortune companies. While some of the newer or smaller players have great features, Cisco has most of the same plus time in the trenches.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    HPE routers performs upto the mark, it basically provides the connectivity to external and internal networks, however sometime the crashes happen in the routers make them look bad. Overall, I am satisfied with the product they use most open-source stuff which makes them easily interoperable with other router vendors as well.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Network management has become easy and fast with cloud based portal.
    • Network policies could be rolled out quickly across the devices.
    • Improvement in Network security.
    • Stable internet connection has lead to less downtime and more productivity.
    • Stable internet connection in each location within the organization.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • HPE routers help route the traffic from our enterprise to external routers.
    • HPE routers help with making sure the availability of network to enterprise.
    • HPE routers has been supporting enterprise network traffic routing from years.
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