Cisco 5000 Series Enterprise Network Compute System (ENCS 5000) vs Cisco 800 Series Industrial ISR (IR 800)

Well suited for all environments, just select the appropriate model

The [Cisco 800 Series Industrial ISR (IR 800)] is great when we need to add a small new site in a very short time.Our previous experience with these units makes the roll-out of new sites quick and almost seamless.The 800 series excels in locations where we want to tunnel all traffic back to the core site.Split tunneling for "SD-WAN" type use is not as functional as in other products.

We are already looking at more purchases

My experience is that there is always something that proves to be just a bit tedious to get figured out but once you do it is easily duplicated

Cisco routers can be configure and forgotten unless you are adding to the configuration or on the rare troubleshooting event.

Cisco routers can be configure and forgotten unless you are adding to the configuration or on the rare troubleshooting event.

People have bad days and some things are deemed not critical enough to fix.

My training was through a third party that had good knowledge but wasn't able to answer all of my questions.

The more you can plan in advance the easier the deployment will be.

Not every router can handle all situations and so you have to purchase the upgrade to do handle the new requirements.