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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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Categories and Ranking

Cisco Cloud Services Router
Ranking in Routers
7th
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
5th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
WAN Edge (15th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Routers category, the mindshare of Cisco Cloud Services Router is 5.0%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Huawei Enterprise Routers is 9.5%, down from 15.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Routers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Huawei Enterprise Routers9.5%
Cisco Cloud Services Router5.0%
Other85.5%
Routers
 

Featured Reviews

VENKATESHREDDY - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate IT Director at Diligent Global
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.
EP
Network Engineer at Technical University of Crete
Reliable border connectivity with responsive support but there's room for more intuitive documentation
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 downloading firmware. Firmware updates should be more straightforward. More security features would be appreciated, however, they should be easy to understand and implement.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"It provides peace of mind because it is a stable product that you aren't going to lose sleep over at night wondering if it will be running or not."
"It handles stress very well. We have not reached a point of needing to worry about its capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is the artificial intelligence assessment models."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco Cloud Services Router are the integration with Amazon and Oracle cloud."
"The bandwidth and throughput are pretty good."
"I now have ease of flexibility, ease of use, and most importantly, convenience."
"The deployment was pretty quick, so the AWS Marketplace options are very helpful."
"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."
"I am going to continue using the solution in the future, it has been working good for me."
"The routers have mainstream features that fulfill our needs."
"I use the product to connect to various access points to extend my network."
"When we started, the connection was amazing for the 100G between the switches and the co-switch. What the students typically use for school is a maximum is 40 so they now have faster technology."
"The product is easy to improve and deploy in terms of configuration for engineers and technical executives."
"There is a lot of information available about routers and how to configure Huawei Routers right now."
"It is a robust and efficient solution."
 

Cons

"The AWS version seems to be a lot less reliable, and we had a lot of issues with the initial configuration."
"Over the past couple of years, I've noticed that the Cisco CLIs and web-based interfaces have changed. As such, there is a bit of a learning curve for people."
"I would like some deployment examples and guides specific to AWS VPCs and how to separate your subnets. Then, how they tie-in with the Internet gateway and any NAT services that we are running on our VPC. This would be extremely helpful."
"You can use this router in a scalable solution but it has its limitations."
"It is too complex. It is not easy to set up, even with the documentation that they provided. It is a little confusing."
"Cisco Cloud Services Router could improve the GUI."
"It could grow or adapt to changes in the cloud. For example, cloud does not support autoscaling. When people want to grow, they have to do manual activities."
"There should be a system in place to help existing users make an easier transition to the newer interfaces."
"The internet speed reduces throughout the day. The tool is not stable."
"The internet service for enterprise bundle should be improved."
"We found that working with technical support was difficult due to a language barrier, and this needs to be improved."
"In the enterprise space, Cisco seems to be performing better than Huawei."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see better bandwidth management, more granular web filtering, and portal authentication."
"I have an issue with Huawei; when we can't solve a project problem, support will say, "Oh, this will be from next year, we don't want to create support, for example, Huawei Router.""
"The stability ended up not being what we hoped, therefore, we reverted back to Cisco routers, which are much more stable."
"The product’s performance could be better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We would prefer to go through the vendor instead of AWS, as we have a relationship with the vendor and can get discounts directly from them. Going through the vendor, it is much cheaper for us. Though, we would still keep it hosted on AWS."
"The pricing is fine, though it might have been cheaper going through a partner or doing a direct buy."
"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was easy; click a button and you have it."
"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."
"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was easy. It was almost a one-click process to purchase CSR."
"The licensing model is good with this appliance: Bring Your Own License (BYOL)."
"The should make the Dynamic Multipoint VPN solution more affordable."
"The product is expensive."
"There are additional licensing costs. I am aware of additional licenses and which services are added to the router."
"Huawei Enterprise Routers’s cost is average. I rate its pricing a five out of ten."
"The price of the solution is fair."
"The product is inexpensive, but there is an extra cost for replacement of the device."
"The solution's price is reasonable."
"These routers are not too expensive."
"Huawei offers a cheaper enterprise router solution than Cisco."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
12%
Construction Company
12%
Performing Arts
10%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

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 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...
What is your primary use case for Huawei Enterprise Routers?
Huawei Enterprise Routers are used as our main border routers to connect us to our ISP.
 

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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