Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V) vs Cisco SD-WAN

Likelihood to Recommend

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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SD-WAN es aplicable a todas las verticales de negocios, ya que ayuda de una manera eficiente en la administración de grandes infraestructuras, mejorando los tiempos de respuesta en incidente, facilitando la resolución de los problemas, así como garantizando la continuidad del negocio cuando ocurren interrupciones en sus comunicaciones upstream. Pero lo mejor de todo, es la experiencia del usuario mejora en un 100%, al tener la capacidad siempre de acceder a las aplicaciones de negocios de una manera fiable, confiable y segura. SD-WAN is applicable to all business verticals, since it helps to make the administration of large infrastructures more efficient, improving the response times related to an incident, facilitating the resolution of problems, and guaranteeing business continuity when there are interruptions in your upstream communications. But best of all, the user experience improves by 100%, by always having the ability to access business applications in a reliable and secure manner

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Tanner Moreno

Gerente

OvnicomTelecommunications, 51-200 employees

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Pros

Extends our network to a private cloud
Gives us more security
Provides more efficient connectivity

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Jon Hersh

Owner

Homewatch CareGiversHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 51-200 employees

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Before Cisco SD-WAN, our users even struggled to send emails with Microsoft 365
Cloud applications, such as SharePoint, were not taking a long time to load and made it impossible to collaborate
Streaming services--even though video streaming does not work at desired levels, music streaming started to work without interruption

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Taner Imamoglu

IT Administrator

Avesoro HoldingsMining & Metals, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

Would be nice if the license expiration simply limited throughput rather than removing features.
Better compatibility with VMWare player would be nice. Specifically, making sure you open the serial console almost immediately after turning on the VM.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Ease of initial configuration - I'm not actually sure how to make it easier without losing granularity and control, but it can be very difficult and confusing when first setting up. Afterwards, it's just point and click.
Model upload - It would be nice if a given hardware model could be "uploaded" to provide a basic configuration to start with.
Logs - I'd prefer more options for filtering logs and having certain ones not be alarms of any kind.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

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Cisco SD-WAN 8.2

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The support that we have received during the deployment phase and the guidance that was imparted with were top-notch. We could have configured this without a doubt, but the expert opinion and advice that was provided to us helped accelerate the design and implementation process that we took. I won't go into specifics, as there are too many and they are on the case to case basis, but I am confident that you will be informed on what "fits" your needs best.

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Ericson Aragoza

Unified Communications Engineer

VisionsConnectedTelecommunications, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

They are great! Even with the price point it is totally worth it.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Professional Training & Coaching Company, 1001-5000 employees

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We only compared Silver Peak NX and Cisco SD-WAN. Since we are primarily a Cisco infrastructure shop, it seemed to integrate better than Silver Peak. We liked the confirmed long-term support from Cisco we have grown accustomed to and did not want to take a chance on a new player. Nothing bad to say about Silver Peak, we just chose another route.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

We were able to quickly and efficiently setup connections to Azure.
We outsource our network team so having a single platform makes our support costs less.
We had no need to redesign our existing on-prem network to allow mesh connection to Azure.

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Ryan Lee

Enterprise Infrastructure Supervisor

KLJCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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In my previous company, we had several production facilities across the US using Cisco's SD-WAN and it allowed the company to continue to provide for employees and our end customers when problems arose with circuits.
As I mentioned previously, vManage allowed the company to track when there are circuit outages in a really simple portal. Before Cisco's SD-WAN, we had to spend money on 3rd party monitoring.
Whenever there was an issue with the server, an employee could request assistance from anywhere instead of worrying about whether or not there was an IT employee present.

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Katie vonErden

Associate Commodity Manager

SpeedwayRetail, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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