Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000) vs. Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)

Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000)

Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000)

11 Reviews and Ratings

Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)

Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)

9 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000)	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	The Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000) is a high-density, small-form-factor MPLS aggregation router for metro aggregation and MPLS-enabled data center networks. The Network Convergence System 5000 Series is designed to economically scale large enterprise, over-the-top (OTT), and service provider data center networking architectures.	N/A
Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)	Score 5.3 out of 10	N/A	Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V) offers routing, security, and network management as cloud services with multitenancy. The series is infrastructure agnostic and programmable across the LAN, WAN, and in the cloud.	N/A

Pricing

Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000)

Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000)	Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

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Community Pulse
	Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000)	Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)
Top Pros	Pro Cloud applications Pro Rack space Pro Video conferencing	Pro Routing protocols Pro Private cloud Pro Quality of service
Top Cons	Minus Ease of use Minus Professional services Minus Major changes	Minus Cost is high Minus Stability issues Minus Bit confusing

Best Alternatives
	Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000)	Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Cisco Routers Score 8.6 out of 10	Cisco Routers Score 8.6 out of 10
Enterprises	Cisco Routers Score 8.6 out of 10	Cisco Routers Score 8.6 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000)	Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (4 ratings)	9.1 (3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000)	Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)
Likelihood to Recommend	Cisco The best scenario for us was to use the NCS 5000 for video conferencing. With several remote branches, we required reliable bandwidth for remotely connecting with employees. The NCS 5000 delivered the bandwidth we needed and provided the quality even with some low bandwidth sites. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Cisco 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. Incentivized Ryan Lee Enterprise Infrastructure Supervisor Read full review
Pros	Cisco Higher port density allows for both higher bandwidth ports to the customer network as well as sufficient uplink capacity to the core. Small rack space, smarter design, smaller footprint allows for more hardware the fit in the same amount of rack space. Lower power consumption, less heat output results in savings within the data center environment. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Cisco 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Cisco Bugs Transport components stability Tac response time in some xases Incentivized Carlos Bedia Technical Operations Engineer I Read full review	Cisco More integration with the switching A dynamic approach for software updates More automation features and APIs Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Cisco CAPEX and OPEX are less for NCS routers. Incentivized OC Ovidiu Cioaca IP DESIGNER Read full review	Cisco 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 Incentivized Ryan Lee Enterprise Infrastructure Supervisor Read full review
Return on Investment	Cisco Communication among remote employees and branches has increased. Quality of service from cloud and video applications. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Cisco I don't need to use outdated hardware for testing. Don't need a dedicated power feed to spin up a usably-sized network. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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