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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Cisco SD-WAN is well designed for organizations that want to have full control or make their cloud and digital transformation easily. [Cisco] SD-WAN gives adaptability to use various transport links like 4G, 5G, or internet dedicated line, and WAN links can be used effectively. The troubleshooting is very fast and efficient and saves us lots of time, energy, and costs.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pros

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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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cisco SD-WAN provides ultra-modern analytics, monitoring, and automation for any associate networking.
Cisco SD-WAN helps our organization fulfill optimal speeds and the best staging speed boost-up.
One of the major reasons to buy this application is that it empowers major augmentation in cybersecurity while also reducing overhead costs and simplifying operations, etc.
SD-WAN provides elucidation to our organization that cuts out high-priced routing and drags back on hardware costs while contributing to our business the elasticity to access multi-cloud services.

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Syed Asad Siddique

Sr. Software Data Associate | Pharmabridge

Softronic Systems (Pvt) LimitedComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Cons

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

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Professional Training & Coaching Company, 1001-5000 employees

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The minimum subscription time is three years, which makes the initial investment of the projects more expensive.
The types of subscriptions that determine the accumulated bandwidth of the transport links generate a limitation to the additional solution that the hardware supports.
Access to the Vmanage administration console must be from a previously established IP address, which removes flexibility of access to the cloud.

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Oswaldo Tirado Diaz

Ingeniero de preventa

BVS Technology SolutionsTelecommunications, 51-200 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

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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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Usability

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Cisco SD-WAN 9.1

Based on 1 answer

It is the best solution on the market.

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pablo baylac

managing director latam

expereoTelecommunications, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

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Cisco SD-WAN 7.3

Based on 36 answers

Al ser soluciones integradas del portafolio de soluciones de Cisco, el soporte es transversal a cada uno de los componentes implementados, teniendo el cliente la capacidad de resolver sus inconvenientes bajo una misma infraestructura que está totalmente homologada, satisfacciendo de esta manera, las necesidades del cliente asi como permitiendo, que este se concentre en su negocio. Since the Cisco SD-WAN tools are a part of Cisco’s broader portfolio of solutions, support cross-cuts to each of our deployed components, with our company as the customer having the ability to solve our problems through the same, approved infrastructure. Their support team easily satisfies the customer’s needs so that they continue to focus on business functions.

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Tanner Moreno

Gerente

OvnicomTelecommunications, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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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Cisco SD-WAN is the simplest to implement with graphical user interface full configuration. There [are] also many automated parts of [the] configuration, like tunnels configurations and routes propagation. Cisco also brings its SD-WAN solution as a complementary solution to users already using Cisco equipment like Meraki and Firepower firewalls. This could be an advantage also.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Computer Networking Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

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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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Managing to use business applications efficiently causes us to get more value from our cloud subscriptions
Able to use streaming services improved employees' morale and increased their performance
Able to combine multiple connections, helped reduce costs, and prevented us from investing in only the most expensive WAN supplier
Instead of relying on one supplier when one connection was down, we managed to carry on with another broadband solution

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Taner Imamoglu

IT Administrator

Avesoro HoldingsMining & Metals, 501-1000 employees

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