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Cisco Cloud Services Router vs Huawei Enterprise Routers comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 29, 2025

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Cisco Cloud Services Router
Ranking in Routers
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Huawei Enterprise Routers
Ranking in Routers
4th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
WAN Edge (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Routers category, the mindshare of Cisco Cloud Services Router is 3.4%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Huawei Enterprise Routers is 14.9%, down from 15.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Routers Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Huawei Enterprise Routers14.9%
Cisco Cloud Services Router3.4%
Other81.7%
Routers
 

Featured Reviews

VENKATESHREDDY - PeerSpot reviewer
Manageable, provides excellent support, and easily integrates with other products
One central area for improvement in Cisco is its product line offering. Cisco has ISE and other products, such as DNS Center and other components. Instead of small to medium-sized customers purchasing devices and maintaining the devices, it would be great if customers could have subscriptions. A CAPEX/OPEX model instead of that Cisco code, where the pricing model is subscription-based, would give much better flexibility for the customers. The pricing and model for Cisco Cloud Services Router and other Cisco products could be improved. One good example of what I want to be added to the Cisco Cloud Services Router in its next version is for it to be more of a plug-and-play product. For example, Juniper has developed QR codes, so if you need to plug in a device, you scan from your phone and connect to the internet. That's it. You can provision the device remotely through the cloud orchestrator, so I want to see a similar function or feature in Cisco Cloud Services Router.
ChimeremezeNwabueze - PeerSpot reviewer
Beneficial cloud connected networking, knowledgeable support, and reliable
Huawei Enterprise Routers can improve by enhancing their security. The software architecture and the operating system that runs on their router and the security capability are not as strong when compared to Cisco. In an upcoming release, they should add more integration for mobile applications with the capability of management monitoring the network remotely.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"What's best about Cisco Cloud Services Router is the support. It's excellent, and so far, no significant challenges. Another valuable feature of the product is easy integration with other products."
"It is definitely scalable. It can handle a lot more traffic and group work compared to any other products that I've evaluated. It could easily scale a lot more than what I'm doing right now."
"The most important feature is that it is designed for mobile vehicle communication in harsh conditions."
"The routing service for NPLS called Layer 3-IP is fantastic."
"The bandwidth and throughput are pretty good."
"AWS has a reference architecture to enable the Cisco routers in high availability and Transit VPC. This is a very powerful router and can enable us to use Transit VPC in AWS, and this is a very powerful feature that we use."
"It seems pretty stable. We have never had any issues with it."
"It integrates well with the other products we're using. We have it with multiple windows like Palo Alto, Arista and it easily integrated with them."
"The product is easy to improve and deploy in terms of configuration for engineers and technical executives."
"The product is very reasonably priced."
"The most valuable features for us are NAT, ATS, server capabilities, VPN tunneling, and management."
"Overall we have found the solution to be satisfactory."
"Internet access is a good feature."
"I have been able to connect the solution to many platforms such as Windows, Apple, and Android."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei Enterprise Routers is if have two networks at different geographical locations with a great deal of distance they work together as if they are on the same cloud network."
"The setup is simple."
 

Cons

"A CAPEX/OPEX model, where the pricing model is subscription-based, would give much better flexibility for the customers. The pricing and model for Cisco Cloud Services Router and other Cisco products could be improved."
"Cisco Cloud Services Router could improve the GUI."
"They have an online registration that happens after they pick up block months. If they could decrease to yearly or something, sometimes the device is not cell phone accessible. That becomes an issue or challenge for us. If that can be improved, that would be really great."
"The ease of use within the AWS environment needs to improve. Sometimes, it is very esoteric in how you use it. Therefore, you have to learn to use it, then you are able to."
"I would like the ability to moderate between devices on-premise to off-premise. This would be a vast improvement."
"The initial setup is easy for one device but is more complex when numerous devices need to be configured."
"It is too complex. It is not easy to set up, even with the documentation that they provided. It is a little confusing."
"You can use this router in a scalable solution but it has its limitations."
"In my country we don't have Huawei technology, we only have Huawei routers for ISP. There is no agent for Huawei in Egypt."
"Syntax in the implementation process could be easier to understand for a new user or someone who doesn’t have prior experience using the product."
"The configuration is complex and should be simplified."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see better bandwidth management, more granular web filtering, and portal authentication."
"We have found we have to restart the routers or reconfigured them a lot of the time, this issue should improve. The quality of the hardware needs to be more durable."
"It would be better if the vendor provided support for small enterprises."
"The solution's technical support could be improved."
"Essentially, they need to open their licensing model such that when a customer buys a device, they have a full view of all of the available licenses for it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cost is a big factor. We would like to see the price reduced."
"The licensing model is good with this appliance: Bring Your Own License (BYOL)."
"The should make the Dynamic Multipoint VPN solution more affordable."
"We never buy the product on the AWS Marketplace. We only download it. We always use BYOL. We never buy the license in the AWS Marketplace, because it's very expensive."
"Purchasing the product on the AWS Marketplace was very simplistic. Our organization was trying to centralize our billing costs, and simplicity was best."
"The pricing is good for what it offers."
"Purchasing it through the AWS Marketplace was very simple. We went through the AWS Marketplace because it was the easiest way to get the product up and running very quickly."
"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was easy; click a button and you have it."
"These routers are not too expensive."
"The product is inexpensive, but there is an extra cost for replacement of the device."
"The tool's licensing is yearly."
"The price is reasonable compared to Cisco's."
"The solution is cheap compared to Cisco."
"There is no licence for this solution, but the solution could be cheaper."
"Huawei Enterprise Routers’s cost is average. I rate its pricing a five out of ten."
"The solution's price is reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
13%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
University
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about Huawei Enterprise Routers?
The solution provides support for 5G connectivity.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Huawei Enterprise Routers?
The product is very cheap and offers a huge discount as they are trying to enter the market. However, you have to pay extra for some services and support.
What needs improvement with Huawei Enterprise Routers?
The documentation is somewhat lacking and not easy to navigate. There are some errors and misleading information. The general appearance of the company site is also not user-friendly for downloadin...
 

Also Known As

Cisco CSR, Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000v, Cisco CSR 1000v
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Sample Customers

Under Armour, HealthSparq, Adobe
Bus Online, VisionChina Media Inc. (VisionChina), China Network Television (CNTV), Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, ABC, BovenIJ hospital
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