Cisco 2000 Series Connected Grid Routers (CGR 2000) vs Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)

Likelihood to Recommend

These may not be the fastest or latest [technology] when it comes to routers, but for their class, they are great. If you were you put a similarly priced router out in the places these things can run it would be dead within a year. Also, you don't need to have an elaborate networking closet to get these into. They work well in small, hot, or potentially dusty places with ease.

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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

Rugged construction
No special heating or cooling requirements
Part of the Cisco ecosystem, so no special maintenance

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Insurance Company, 501-1000 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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Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Cisco has some troubles with licensing hardware still unless you're on smart licensing
Price with Cisco equipment is usually high
Bugs found in the interface

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

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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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Support Rating

Cisco 2000 Series Connected Grid Routers (CGR 2000) 7.3

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Have not had to use support yet but would follow our current Cisco process.

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No score

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Alternatives Considered

We didn't look outside of the Cisco branded routers since we wanted to manage it as part of the enterprise and not have a "one-off" router.

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Insurance Company, 501-1000 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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Return on Investment

Saved money on replacing standard routers that die in those environments
Saved time with the easy linking and connection options
Given us peace of mind that the device will continue to run without intervention

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I don't need to use outdated hardware for testing.
Don't need a dedicated power feed to spin up a usably-sized network.

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Cisco 2000 Series Connected Grid Routers (CGR 2000) vs Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)