Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000) vs SD-WAN Concierge

Likelihood to Recommend

As we provide our network services poor multiple customers we were looking for a well-known brand where we could rely on their name. Cisco was, besides Aruba, the way to go in our situation. After configuration, the network administrators were able to keep everything under control with ease. It could be a bit tough for the beginning network administrator but overall it was a great investment!

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Employee in Corporate

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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The underlying product (Velocloud) is not the issue, Windstream is. Anything this company touches turns to crap.

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Logistics and Supply Chain Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pros

These routers are very good at performing 24x7! This is key to running an organization where employees are working 24x7.
The ZBFW feature works especially well to help lockdown and protect your network.
Having the ability to perform in-service upgrades is a key feature in keeping your network up at all times.

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Cody Plassmeyer

Network Administrator II

Central Electric Power CooperativeUtilities, 51-200 employees

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Failover is easy, no single point of failure, provided you have the bandwidth.

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Logistics and Supply Chain Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

The ASR 1000 series routers can, as with most devices, improve with additional memory capacity and upgraded chip sets for faster processing.
There seems to be limitations on the number of routing sessions the smaller ASR devices can handle, which can be overcome with proper planning and placement within the network.

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Contributor in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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While the product may work decently once implemented, Windstream is a constant roadblock.
Trouble issues need to be escalated before people will bother to work on them.

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Pricing Details

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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Free Trial

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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Likelihood to Renew

Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000) 7.0

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Only ASR get EOL we would like to upgrade our routers to recomended replacements.

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Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000) 9.7

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All our modular contingency service exercises use this equipment, it allows us to perform this type of exercises very easily, in a controlled and effective way. It is used at least once a month for these types of events. It also allows configuration replication in computers that are under the same model.

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Carlos Mendoza Barberán

Analista de Redes y Comunicaciones

Banco Internacional EcuadorFinancial Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000) 8.8

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We did not heavily engage with the Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Router (ASR1000) support function as we decide to switch the solution to a more cost-effective option, and this was primarily a price decision vs. any support related decision.

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General Manager in Corporate

Financial Services Company, 1-10 employees

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Implementation Rating

Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000) 10.0

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Implementation was as per design and all best practice configuration was followed.

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Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

Before standardizing on the Cisco ASR 1000 we had explored the idea of using Juniper routers. Ultimately we felt the Cisco ASR 1000 was a better fit at the time. We have been very happy with this decision, but it might not be the right decision for everyone. It fit our environment and our needs very well, Juniper is also a very good choice.

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Employee in Information Technology

Internet Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

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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Rohit Narang

Assistant Vice President

HSBC Commercial BankingFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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One outage on our main site cost over 500K in lost revenue for a day, Windstream was unapologetic for failing to set a QOS policy right during cutover.
We needed to get a building re-wired to get the install at one location going. Windstream said, let us quote it... It took them 2 months to get us a quote that was 4x higher than a local provider. Thankfully, this didn't impact the deployment schedule.

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Logistics and Supply Chain Company, 1001-5000 employees

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