Cisco Enterprise Routers Reviews

Our primary use for this solution is as an internet gateway.

The most valuable feature is that we can specify the routing policies for our traffic.

The cost of this solution is a little bit high compared to others.

Some of our customers have asked that this solution have a 10G connection.

We have not had any complaints about the router going down.

The scalability of this solution is good.

We have customers with between thirty and fifty users and we have other customers who have between one hundred and one hundred and fifty users.

Cisco's technical support is very good. I have used them for this solution, as well as for access points. I would rate their support an eight out of ten.

The initial setup of this solution is straightforward.

We perform the deployment and configuration of this solution for most of our customers. Many of them are not educated in Cisco technology. There are some customers who can handle it, but they still consult with us for advice.

This solution is expensive.

We have not done very much configuration with this solution because we only use it as an internet gateway and we also use the firewall for filtering and applying policies.

This product is very good but nothing can have ten out of ten.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten

This is a solution that I integrate for our customers.

Most of the hardware is very stable.

In the 3750 model, the best feature is the stacking. My customer needed that because they wanted high-availability between the firewall and the end-users.

High-availability management needs to be improved. When one switch fails, it will ask you to come back and use a different one.

If they can negate or reduce the modem delay, that would be great.

When we are performing maintenance, it takes too long to reboot the device.

The scalability is very good. I have not had any issues with it.

I rarely contact technical support. I am a technical person and do it myself because I am the first level of support for my customers. Everything is easy to do. What I like about Cisco devices is that they have documentation. Whenever you have an issue you will go online to find it first. Normally, there are examples of it.

The last time I contacted Cisco was for somebody who wanted to change their license for a wireless email security appliance. Support was able to help me, and the issue was solved. If I cannot handle the issue then I contact Cisco tech and they will solve it. They are great and have helped me to satisfy my customers.

Previously we were using another solution, but we change to Cisco Enterprise Routers because where I work, most people want to have full control of their devices.

Most of the time, I use the command-line interface.

The downtime for a switch automatically taking over for another one has been reduced. It used to take five or six minutes for the jobs on the other resource tree, but it is faster now.

My advice for people implementing this solution is to test it. Try new things that you have never tried. Cisco has support, which is the most important thing.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We use this solution for interconnecting our branch offices. We have six branches in addition to our head office.

All of our routers are on-premises deployments.

The Cisco routers are very stable.

We can use these routers for multiple links, so in terms of scalability, it's a plus for us.

Cisco has one of the best products in terms of routing because of the protocols in which they provide.

In terms of room for improvement, I think that there is a need for additional administration. We have seen other products, such as the Cisco Email Security Appliance and the Cisco Web Security Appliance, now have a web-based interface. We would like to see this in the routers, as well. It would make our administration easier.

Considering the increase in data that is being processed across networks, I think that increasing the CPU size to boost processing power would be wise. People are now trying to do more analytics, so this would be helpful.

I think that it would be better for analytics if the local storage, on the router itself, were increased. This would allow us to store more data for analysis as we are trying to secure our network.

This is a very stable solution.

The scalability of this solution is good.

These routers support a user base of about seven hundred and fifty people. We do not immediately plan on increasing our usage, although as the economy grows, we can see increasing our user base to perhaps one thousand users in two years. It will increase as we open more branch offices.

We have reached out to Cisco's technical support, and in the past six years, the service and support have been excellent. We are happy with the turnaround times.

Cisco is very a popular vendor in this country, so I have been using Cisco products all along, in terms of routing. I have not been exposed to other technologies.

The basic setup is pretty straightforward, although we have reached out to Cisco for help when we needed to implement tight security and integration with other Cisco products.

We have a technical team of about ten people who manage these routers. There are six system administrations and three people in the head office.

We used our Cisco Premier Partner, who are local, to assists us with these solutions.

Cisco is mid-tier in terms of pricing and quite affordable by most enterprises.

There are some people trying to introduce other technology such as Check Point and Juniper, but our Enterprise customers rely on Cisco.

Mostly, this is a very good product.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

The statistics show you a full brief of every user, every type of connection used, and the total bandwidth used. We control our VPNs through it and our actual line of defense for our security is the Cisco firewall. We have four different fiber connections and two satellite connections connected to our offices. They all load balance through Cisco and another analytics device. It integrates very well into our network and we find it to be extremely robust and durable.

It has provided us a more secure environment, especially the firewall. We've had multiple attempts of network intrusion which have been defeated because of the firewall rules in place. 

Their support has room for improvement. The regional agents are not that great.

The devices can be a bit of an energy hog. We would like to see a more durable power supply system because being in a third world country we have frequent power outages and it takes a bit of time for our generators and stuff to kick in which then leads to power surges and whatnot. Even with the proper power management system, it can also affect the devices themselves.

We're extremely satisfied with the stability. We've had around two or three outages in the last 18 years.

We are very limited in terms of scalability. We're a small firm, we hardly have 30 people. 

Our entire company uses it. We're all on the network. We have 152 users right now and we support about another 135 mobile devices. They're all financial institutions. 

Cisco support itself is excellent. Some of the resellers are very good but some aren't.

The initial setup was quite easy. Our employees are Cisco certified so they are familiar with the setup and activities of the products. The very initial setup was in 2001. After that, we just swapped it for the updated rules of the devices. That's all we had to do. It's been a seamless integration and a seamless upgrade with very minimal downtime. 

Our implementation strategy was that we had to open an office in 30 days. It took us about two weeks to wire the entire office up and put the hardware in place. It was a total initial build so we had no issues at all. Everything was covered. We did have serious problems where we had the wiring issues and whatnot, but otherwise, it was business as usual.

We have three people in our network department who oversee the devices, maintenance and whatever needs to be done. We have two technicians and one Cisco certified tech.

Our initial setup was done by a Cisco reseller. We had a good experience with them and we had normal issues. We had issues with one of our appliances that had gone down and we couldn't get a replacement but that was an issue on their part.

Our issues are basically currency related. The licensing is in dollars and the dollar is steadily rising. We've had an increase in the licensing fee due to the simple reason that the exchange rate is almost over 40%. That creates a major issue. If the currency devaluation doesn't stabilize, we may have to look at another solution.

I would advise someone outside the US to consider the issues that we're facing right now, the currency devaluation and licensing fees.

I would rate it a nine out of ten because we haven't had any major issues with it.

This solution helps us with our inter-network constitution, and that works for us.

The most valuable feature is the configuration that is involved with iOS. In addition, it is very durable. It does not have downtime.

It comes with 3-1 default box and other parts. You have to buy additional lamp parts, which adds to the cost if they could, but affect the number of parts with the default configuring.

The solution is quite impressive. 

The scalability is good. It is durable, and quite good.

I have not used tech support.

The initial setup was very good. 

The pricing is a huge issue. I had to convince my company to purchase this solution. It is very expensive, and prohibitive. 

I think the network backup for this solution is solid, and is worthwhile for any company to consider.

Installed at many locations using a hub-and-spoke design to connect remote sites to central locations over GRE tunnels.

• Its routers are versatile, reliable, and capable. 
• I find their user interface easy to use in getting simple to complex tasks completed, even after not using it for a while.

I extensively used site-to-site VPNs, access control, etc., linking remote sites to the central location to create a highly distributed organization.

Recently, there seems to be a lot of people who are leaning towards Juniper CLI, which is easier to pick up.

This is the Enterprise Class solution for Routing, all technologies needs for now and for the future are supported. Everything is well documented in Cisco DOC site, with a lot of deployment scenarios as well in others sites around the web. Technically it is incontestable.

Solved most communications needs and trouble scenarios.

I cannot see any, maybe more new technologies that we unknown.

For eight years and counting.

A lot, but the majority is due to vendor incompatibility with others and errors in deployment.

None.

It dependent of the scenario and technical use and needs.

Very good.

Very Good.

Yes, it depends of the customer's budget and management directions.

Very easy in all the ways.

In-house one.

It is can be very expensive and licensing complex.

Yes, Juniper and Brocade solutions.

It's got fantastic throughput which meets most of the network Gbps/Tbps data throughput in Next-Generation Networks (NGN) that are in use in today's industry.

• Higher switching capacity
• Feature-rich for almost all requirements
• Modular IOS form, unlike the legacy fixed IOS which is prone to single point of crash for all services and features on it.

Cost is very expensive, it needs to be reviewed for affordability by SMEs. They are on the high side for some SMEs who are willing to deploy high standard IT solution powered by Cisco but most of the time, they are not able to afford Cisco SME products.