Cisco Silicon One vs. Cisco Small Business RV Series

It's best suited for small offices 10-25 users. Any more and its best to move away to a more higher tier. It will be less appropriate for a mid level company with a large staff. It's best for a small business with a limited budget and less strenuous security functionality.

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• Cisco Small Business RV Series is aimed for SMB use cases
• Simple setting and easy deployment
• Can be integrated with Cisco security on cloud such as Umbrella
• Provides advanced security features with license

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• Wireless is slower than a dedicated wireless module.
• Some of the lower-end Cisco RV models can't handle high traffic load.
• GUI interface is really slow sometimes.

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The features are good. The support is good. The resources to deploy, manage, and operate it are good. Customer's feedback and testimonials are good. The updates in terms of zero day vulnerabilities are good and timely. But, I still give an 8 out of 10 because I think the pricing, licensing, and GUI can be improved more.

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Cisco's power really stems from its brand reputation and honestly not much else. No one ever got fired for deploying Cisco, and that's why it stands out. The Cisco Small Business RV Series is no exception there; the unit is built well and does the job. However, much more powerful alternatives for routers are out there—the biggest competitor being Ubiquiti. The UniFi routers are significantly more powerful in all regards, including routing speed, IPS/IDS speeds, and VPN functionality. Support for those is admittedly rather lackluster though, so if your network is critical, you are effectively self-insuring your equipment. For some that may be fine, but for others, that risk of extended downtime is just not worth it.

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• Remote sales staff easily make use of the included VPN
• Wireless access is built in and convenient
• The form factor contributes no noise and negligible heat to our data closet

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