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

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What is Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)?

Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V) offers routing, security, and network management as cloud services with multitenancy. The series is infrastructure agnostic and programmable across the LAN, WAN, and in the cloud.

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Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series Review

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Mahesh Doshi
IT in Information Technology at Trafigura (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have used Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V) as the gateway router to our cloud platform. It is a great product to have full control on our environment and also integrate with our on-prem Radius/TACACS infrastructure. we use use this device to do traffic engineering in/out of our environment. We used this to circumvent the TGW infra on the cloud platform. we also use this effectively to manage different zones and segregate traffic for VPC-based traffic engineering.

Pros

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

Cons

  • License management can be improved, we should be able to use our EA agreement licenses
  • Pricing and cost of router could be more simplified
  • This could be made cost-effective as in current price models, but this cannot be adapted by small-medium businesses

Most Important Features

  • Available in virtual mode, helps reduce physical implementation
  • Very easy to implement and use
  • VPC-based routing and traffic engineering and monitoring
  • On-prem network integration is very simple

Return on Investment

  • As this is available on AWS workplace, it's easy to configure and implement
  • Absolute worth for money, easy ROI
  • With the Cisco global support model, this becomes very easy to configure and troubleshoot and becomes part of my overall asset list
  • License management could be simplified and made more cost-effective

Other Software Used

Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000), Cisco Nexus Dashboard, Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

CSR works just like an ISR.

Incentivized
Ryan LeeView profile
Enterprise Infrastructure Supervisor in Information Technology at KLJ (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Functions like any physical ISR router.
  • Can be sized according to need.
  • Easy to purchase and documentation was up to date.

Cons

  • 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.

Most Important Features

  • Support for all protocols that a ISR supports so you can maintain feature parity.
  • Same configuration as any other piece of cisco equipment so no need to learn new code.
  • Can be upgraded in size with the click of a button.

Return on Investment

  • We were able to quickly and efficiently setup connections to Azure.
  • We outsource our network team so having a single platform makes our support costs less.
  • We had no need to redesign our existing on-prem network to allow mesh connection to Azure.

Alternatives Considered

Azure VPN Gateway and Cisco Meraki vMX

Other Software Used

Panzura, Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, Azure Windows Virtual Desktop

CSR1000V: indispensable for testing/training.

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Easy and available to download with a CCO account.
  • Full-featured router platform.
  • Can run as many instances as you have memory to handle.
  • No issues so far running in VMWare player 14.0.

Cons

  • Would be nice if the license expiration simply limited throughput rather than removing features.
  • Better compatibility with VMWare player would be nice. Specifically, making sure you open the serial console almost immediately after turning on the VM.

Return on Investment

  • I don't need to use outdated hardware for testing.
  • Don't need a dedicated power feed to spin up a usably-sized network.

Great product!

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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Quality of Service (QoS)
  • BGP
  • Scalability
  • Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR)
  • Netflow

Cons

  • More integration with the switching
  • A dynamic approach for software updates
  • More automation features and APIs

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Catalyst 2960-X/XR Series Switches