Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)
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Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)
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Engineer
Chose Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)
As mentioned, the Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000) can support higher network bandwidth as compared to the ISar Routers. In addition, the ASR router can be easily scaled up by adding an SPA Network Interfaces module to support additional network …
Chose Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)
Cisco ASR 1000 is a competent device, it is built for multi purposes, you can use it in private cloud solutions, WAN router in your company and branches. The capability to support multiple OPEN standard routing protocols allow it to establish neighborship with customer, partner …
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Chose Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)
This has been selected because it allows us to use OTV to stretch VLANs
Chose Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)
We needed tried and true device to support both internet edge and OTV functionality. While the ASR1K line is reaching end-of-life, the Catalyst 8500-series platform was brand new so we were not ready to invest in that platform; however, in hindsight, given Cisco has EoL'd the …
Chose Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)
serving as a WAN aggregation router for the termination of our external 10G links, we choose it for the following features BGP, PFR, Cisco Nonstop Forwarding, ISSU, Stateful SwitchoverEtherChannels
Chose Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)
We haven't used any other manufacturer other than Cisco. [H]owever, we have used different models that Cisco offers. The ASR has a little more horsepower than the ISR. Both are very good routers though.
Chose Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)
For cloud network all these products complement each other to ensure HA reliability, optimized path, workload mobility, multi services, multi hypervisor support to service our workloads.
Chose Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)
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 …
Chose Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)
The Cisco 1000 series devices in most cases perform vastly different roles in a large network than the ASR 9000s. They take up a lot less physical space, require less cooling and less power consumption at a lower cost. However, they cannot process information at the same …
Chose Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)
Cisco has a larger market share than Juniper in the router markets. Because of that, there are more certified Cisco service engineers and more online support resources compared with Juniper for troubleshooting hardware issues. The rest of our LAN infrastructure was already …
Chose Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)
With the available handy skills and affirmative experience with Cisco, it was picked though some features for the aforesaid products were equally good and worthwhile.
Chose Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)
Cisco Routers are a better fit for my org. Juniper seemed to be the best comparison, but mainly we chose to remain with Cisco because our in-house knowledge was already there. We didn’t see a big enough difference in other options to make it worth the change.
Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco
- It is well suited for companies that have a big WAN environment, this devices can fit in there easily and have multiple provider circuits. - Well suited for private cloud environments where multi tenancy is required, - Device can be used as IPN/ISN device as it supports jumbo frames for an ACI multi-site/remote leaf deployment. - Device is well suited for branches that have their own DIA and MPLS circuits.
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.
The device without a doubts performs at the level required and expected, we can renew it and use it as we have been using it for years. The device can be used as DCI, IPN/ISN, or even private cloud for customer circuit handoff, it also supports IPSec properly. The device is well suited in multiple segments of the network.
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.
We have received training on the equipment, which has made us add more networks on our own, we provide first level support, we validate the publication of the equipment and we can satisfy the needs of our internal clients in terms of the prompt recovery of the affected services
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.
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.