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Attribute Ratings
- Huawei Ethernet Switches is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
80%
14 Ratings

9.0
Huawei Ethernet Switches
90%
3 Ratings
Usability
9.1
Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
91%
1 Rating

Huawei Ethernet Switches
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating
5.5
Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
55%
7 Ratings

Huawei Ethernet Switches
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
I can recommend this ASR 9000 Series model for the locations which are very Big like data centers, large offices, and service provider networks. Which will enhance the performance. We cannot use this router in small deployments. This is an advanced technology model which has many features like orchestrating services across a converged network and enabling on-demand service capabilities.
Pre-Sales Network Consultant
Al Khalili GroupInformation Technology & Services, 51-200 employees
Huawei Ethernet Switches
Huawei switches are ideal for cases where performance is not essential, for low traffic solutions and for equipment management. It is not recommended for situations of high performance and stress, immediate availability and high scalability. It is also not advisable to use them in solutions that involve hardware from other brands, the integration of Huawei with Cisco, for example, is very traumatic and the results were not optimal in my case.
Lider de proyectos
CANTVTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees
Pros
Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
- [Cisco 9000] Series [Aggregation Services] Routers are exceptionally reliable when compared to other market options.
- One strength of Cisco routers, in general, is their compatibility with any standard market tools from other vendors.
- [It is] unmatched in terms of sheer performance.
- [It] comfortably supports very strong throughput requirements.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesHuawei Ethernet Switches
- Scalability
- High throughput links
- Redundancy of links with resilient protocols
- Fast switching in the event of a redundant link failure.
Network Engineer
ALOO TELECOMTelecommunications, 201-500 employees
Cons
Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
- [The] upgrade process [is] overly complicated compared to NX-OS or IOS. New images and the current configuration need to be compiled into "golden IOS's". If you don't include the configuration, you will have a clean device with no configuration.
- [There are] major bugs in every release. We have had to cycle through all of our routers 3 times in the last year for updates due to show-stopping bugs that did not come to light until after the changes were made in production.
- [It has] terrible documentation. You have to mine their site to get to any documentation for recent versions of IOS-XR. If you make the leap from 32-bit cXR to 64-bit eXR, then the documentation is more or less non-existent. Due to the internal architecture of hardware itself, technical specs can change from software version to software version, so don't expect any sort of firm scalability numbers. You'll have to rely on your sales engineer for that.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology and Services Company, 501-1000 employeesHuawei Ethernet Switches
- One of our switches encounted a hardware defect after 6 months of use (but was replaced within warranty)
- The switches appear to get hotter than what I would expect under normal use
Security Officer
IXON CloudInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Pricing Details
Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Huawei Ethernet Switches
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Usability
Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000) 9.1
Based on 1 answer
[I am] always impressed with Cisco products, from the functionality to the customer support.

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Military Company, 10,001+ employeesHuawei Ethernet Switches
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000) 5.5
Based on 7 answers
In some ways, the platform is a big improvement over our previous IOS and NX-OS devices: They offer version-controlled configuration staging/commits. They have a robust portfolio of network protocols and features even beyond datacenter devices. Due to the use of NPUs instead of relying entirely on ASICs for forwarding, new versions of the software are able to improve hardware performance and capacity. Unfortunately, I have run into more bugs on IOS-XR than I ever did on IOS or even NX-OS (which has a shocking number of bugs of its own) and you have to be a licensing guru to get your order right the first time.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology and Services Company, 501-1000 employeesHuawei Ethernet Switches
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
Each has its own strengths and weaknesses. Juniper was more security/less routing and Cisco was more routing/less security. Redback was Ericsson which is easy when creating VRFs known as contexts. When doing [the] show command, it would give you all the information within that context. In Cisco, you need to perform 3 or more commands to get the same info.

Verified User
General Manager in Other
Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employeesHuawei Ethernet Switches
The performance of Huawei is lower than Cisco, but initially the costs inclined the decision towards Huawei, but unfortunately, it was not, the licenses and the manager fired the investment to make it very similar to cisco. Therefore it is preferable to go to the Cisco switches for reliability and robustness.
Lider de proyectos
CANTVTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees
Return on Investment
Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
- Higher reliability has significantly reduced the need for manual intervention.
- Lower downtime ensures better top-line figures.
- Although it may be difficult to quantify, I am certain that the higher performance does have an impact (maybe indirectly) on other business functions. High-performance routers are like the oil that keeps an engine running smoothly.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesHuawei Ethernet Switches
- Revenue Increase
- Greater satisfaction for our customers.
- Greater compliance with SLAs
Network Engineer
ALOO TELECOMTelecommunications, 201-500 employees