Aryaka SmartConnect vs. Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)

Aryaka SmartConnect

Aryaka SmartConnect

3 Reviews and Ratings

Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)

Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)

10 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Aryaka SmartConnect	Score 9.8 out of 10	N/A	SmartConnect is an on-demand, fully managed and end-to-end SD-WAN connectivity service for enterprises, offering global, regional, and local as well as cloud connectivity. The solution connects branches, remote locations, data centers and cloud service providers, using Aryaka's SD-WAN platform.	N/A
Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V) offers routing, security, and network management as cloud services with multitenancy. The series is infrastructure agnostic and programmable across the LAN, WAN, and in the cloud.	N/A

Pricing

Aryaka SmartConnect

Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Aryaka SmartConnect	Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

—

—

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Aryaka SmartConnect	Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)
Top Pros	No answers on this topic	Pro Routing protocols Pro Private cloud Pro Quality of service
Top Cons	Minus Ticketing system	Minus Cost is high Minus Stability issues Minus Bit confusing

Best Alternatives
	Aryaka SmartConnect	Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Cisco Routers Score 8.4 out of 10	Cisco Routers Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprises	Cisco Routers Score 8.4 out of 10	Cisco Routers Score 8.4 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Aryaka SmartConnect	Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)
Likelihood to Recommend	3.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (4 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Aryaka SmartConnect	Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)
Likelihood to Recommend	Aryaka Networks It integrates nicely with AWS (in regions other than China). The provisioning support is pretty good. Incentivized Jeff Stockamp Principal Architect Read full review	Cisco If you just need to do simple communication to Azure such as smb and rdp sessions then the Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series is overkill. If you need to setup multiple mesh vpn connections to existing ISRs and have complicated routing with multiple protocols then Cisco Cloud Services Router makes that setup much easier and less work to maintain and troubleshoot. Incentivized Ryan Lee Enterprise Infrastructure Supervisor Read full review
Pros	Aryaka Networks Relatively easily to implement Incentivized Jeff Stockamp Principal Architect Read full review	Cisco Easy and available to download with a CCO account. Full-featured router platform. Can run as many instances as you have memory to handle. No issues so far running in VMWare player 14.0. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Aryaka Networks Support is very inconsistent, no real trouble-ticketing system when you have issues Very expensive for what you get Not much advance notification for maintenance events Unclear if Aryaka connectivity into China meets Chinese M.I.I.T. laws Incentivized Jeff Stockamp Principal Architect Read full review	Cisco More integration with the switching A dynamic approach for software updates More automation features and APIs Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Aryaka Networks We didn't really evaluate many other SDWAN providers as very few operate inside of China. Our alternative was to build VPN connectivity ourselves. Incentivized Jeff Stockamp Principal Architect Read full review	Cisco Neither product supported all the protocols we needed to allow all of our locations to route. It does add some complications to the gateway and vnet setup though. Once we retired our ISRs we were able to go to Meraki vMX and the auto-vpn setup works rather well and is much simpler than IOS configs Incentivized Ryan Lee Enterprise Infrastructure Supervisor Read full review
Return on Investment	Aryaka Networks Enabled us to deploy infrastructure into new regions quickly Cost of Aryaka connections (especially in China) is excessive Incentivized Jeff Stockamp Principal Architect Read full review	Cisco As this is available on AWS workplace, it's easy to configure and implement Absolute worth for money, easy ROI With the Cisco global support model, this becomes very easy to configure and troubleshoot and becomes part of my overall asset list License management could be simplified and made more cost-effective Incentivized Mahesh Doshi IT Read full review
ScreenShots