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Cisco Routers

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What is Cisco Routers?

Cisco 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 customers successfully manage technology transitions. Embedded security detects threats in mere hours instead of months. The vendor has studies how networks are consumed, applying those learnings to the new network.

About Cisco
Cisco routers deliver open, intent-based networking platform across the branch, WAN, and cloud. They provide end-to-end security, automation, and analytics with customer services and support.

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Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using Cisco Routers
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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

19.9%

1,314 installations of 6,600

“Cisco routers are used throughout the company in order to maintain a stable network, these have been implemented as an upgrade to previous equipment from another provider. They are configured and monitored by the Telecommunications department.”

— Analista SR | Gobierno & Cumplimiento | Seguridad de la Información, Edenor (1001-5000 employees)
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#2 most frequent

Information

13.6%

897 installations of 6,600

“One of the main pieces of hardware we would use, especially in a SOHO or Medium sized network as they can scale as far as you need them!”

— MANAGER/ LEAD TECHNICIAN/ VOIP ENGINEER, Jacksonville Technology Services (1-10 employees)
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#3 most frequent

Manufacturing

10.4%

688 installations of 6,600

“Cisco Routers are used corporate-wide, by 700+ users daily, including users on campus and remotely via VPN. They address basic user connectivity to corporate assets. We do not use many ACLs on these particular devices, opting for a dedicated firewall instead, but for routing, these devices are spot on.”

— IT, Network Administrator, Dynamic Aviation (501-1000 employees)
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Incentivized
Tom Magnett
Network Engineer in Engineering at Kansas Fiber Network (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use both the N540-24Z8Q2C0-M and N540-28Z4C-SYS for our Edge routers. We are primarily a L2 transport network. We use MPLS TE-Tunnels to transport our L2VPN's.

Pros

  • Well, I like the IOS-XR7 over XE.
  • The port density vs the size is good. (Probably no different to all other vendors I guess)

Cons

  • We have two versions of the NCS540, one issue I have is they run different versions of XR.
  • Trying to get the smart-licensing to work is a pain sometimes. Especially when we upgrade from 7.4.1 to 24.3.2 and they change how they implement licensing.

Return on Investment

  • Cisco is what we use. hard to say without having had other products in the same place as our Cisco Routers what would be good or bad.

Cisco Routers

Incentivized
Neilson Lui
NEtwork Engineer in Information Technology at Gordon Food Service (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

They provide WAN connectivity across our enterprise.

Pros

  • Routing
  • Failover
  • Speed

Cons

  • Licensing
  • More L3 ports
  • More options for small branch

Return on Investment

  • Business efficiency to get product delivered on time
  • Make use of employees time effectively
  • Provide secure access to ERP

Other Software Used

Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers

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Sunday Adetona
Network Engineer in Engineering at RealmOne (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For providing L3 access across multiple subnets within the enterprise setup.

Pros

  • Routing between networks
  • It handles failover between Routers for HSRP

Return on Investment

  • none that I can tell.

Alternatives Considered

Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000) and Cisco Catalyst IE3400 Rugged Series Switches

Cisco ASRs

Incentivized
Tuan Huynh
Lead Network Engineer in Information Technology at Cox Automotive (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Across the whole organization as edge routers.

Pros

  • routing
  • great support

Cons

  • ASRs still independent

Return on Investment

  • it has been pretty stable.

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN and Cisco Meraki SD-WAN

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brian carroll
Manager in Engineering at HTC (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

14 ASR9k

Pros

  • Aggregate traffic
  • BNG
  • Core routing

Cons

  • BNG failover

Return on Investment

  • stability

Alternatives Considered

Juniper MX Series

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