Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000) vs Cisco 800 Series Industrial ISR (IR 800)

• In most cases, the larger ASR routers such as the 1006 and 1009s have sufficient capabilities to be used as a Core network router.
• The smaller ASRs such as the 1002 devices are best suited on the edge, capable of handling a limited number of connections due to the fixed chassis.

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• Small factor
• Low cost
• Fast configuration
• Switch port

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• Licensing on the routers is more complicated than it needs to be. We have the ASR routers along with ISR routers both have the license of the advanced service, however, on the ISR routers that license did not include the app-X feature needed to send the application specific net-flow data we wanted. It would be better if Cisco was consistence with the features included with licenses.
• Some software patches are quite involved as there is a boot loaded and IOS that must be upgraded.

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• Most are single power supply
• If they aren't a full 19" 1U device you have to purchase rack ears separately from the device
• VPN tunneling can be a bit of a configuration challenge

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• It is a healthy return on investment with planned packed size data. Average unicast latency is low and consistent with small and large packets (barring mid-sized).
• Cisco devices last longer and also have a decent trade-in policy to recover some value when equipment is replaced.
• Higher concurrent IPSec tunnels are offered, we tested for 1500+, fielding both encrypted and a mix of encrypted and cleartext traffic.

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• Investment in education
• High price
• Easy material

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