We performed a comparison between Cisco Cloud Services Router and MikroTik Cloud Router Switch based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Routers solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has good performance."
"It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"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 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."
"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."
"The bandwidth and throughput are pretty good."
"It allowed us to create a more secure VPN than we would have been able to do without it."
"It connects all the accounts with the weaknesses, and this is what we were looking for. Also, it connects with the on-premise side."
"This solution is scalable."
"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."
"The performance has been good."
"I like that it's quite flexible and addresses different issues. It's quite easy to use, and the pricing is great. We find them to be very capable switches."
"There are a lot of features to control permitting or stopping packets in the network."
"It's a well-rounded solution for routing."
"The initial setup is easy."
"A valuable aspect is its user-friendly configuration, making it accessible even for individuals with basic technical knowledge."
"The interface management and the user access management is pretty good."
"It is easy to set up."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"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."
"It does the job, but it's not cloud native. It could be even better, like having a single pane of glass and being less expensive."
"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."
"If you lose connectivity to the cloud, it is difficult to establish connectivity between hub and spoke."
"It is too complex. It is not easy to set up, even with the documentation that they provided. It is a little confusing."
"I would like to see better security, where there are more access controls and data confidentiality."
"The initial setup is easy for one device but is more complex when numerous devices need to be configured."
"Technical support could be better. I am missing a single pane of glass, where I can see all the connections, etc."
"The port isolation and VLAN need to be improved."
"The user interface could improve and they should allow a license for IBS."
"Improvements are needed with respect to some of the security, especially for VPN links between vendors other than Cisco."
"Stuff that I'd like to be improved is really just training and documentation because I think the feature set is full. Another improvement I'd suggest is that their new, bigger releases should be a bit more stable."
"If MikroTik had a marketing team and support team in India then it would be much easier for us to get the product, as well as support."
"It happens that you may find your network is down, if you reboot the switch, they come up. However, sometimes, they reset themselves. That's a big issue."
"There has to be more development in the OS. It's complex for this switch as compared to others like Cisco. For NetGear and Cisco, it's easy to adapt the VLAN concept but it should be simplified for MikroTik."
"In medium to large sectors, there's a necessity for managing aspects like proxy firewalls."
Cisco Cloud Services Router is ranked 6th in Routers with 17 reviews while MikroTik Cloud Router Switch is ranked 5th in Routers with 17 reviews. Cisco Cloud Services Router is rated 8.0, while MikroTik Cloud Router Switch is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Cloud Services Router writes "Useful for smooth migrations, high availability, and simple deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MikroTik Cloud Router Switch writes "Easy to set up, user-friendly, and reliable". Cisco Cloud Services Router is most compared with MikroTik Routers and Switches, HPE Enterprise Routers and Huawei Enterprise Routers, whereas MikroTik Cloud Router Switch is most compared with MikroTik Routers and Switches, Huawei Enterprise Routers, Cisco Enterprise Routers, Meraki MS Switches and Fortinet FortiSwitch - Data Center. See our Cisco Cloud Services Router vs. MikroTik Cloud Router Switch report.
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