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

Likelihood to Recommend

It integrates nicely with AWS (in regions other than China). The provisioning support is pretty good.

Principal Architect

SAP ConcurInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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.

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Ryan Lee

Enterprise Infrastructure Supervisor

KLJCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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Pros

Relatively easily to implement

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Jeff Stockamp

Principal Architect

SAP ConcurInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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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.

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Professional in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

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

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Jeff Stockamp

Principal Architect

SAP ConcurInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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More integration with the switching
A dynamic approach for software updates
More automation features and APIs

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Engineer in Information Technology

Professional Training & Coaching Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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Alternatives Considered

We didn't really evaluate many other SDWAN providers as very few operate inside of China. Our alternative was to build VPN connectivity ourselves.

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Jeff Stockamp

Principal Architect

SAP ConcurInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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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

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Ryan Lee

Enterprise Infrastructure Supervisor

KLJCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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