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

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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Product has been around for a long time and the stability and features are excellent. Now that Oracle owns it, its long-term viability is both improved (given Oracle isn't going anywhere anytime soon), but all the layers of bureaucracy and auditing that Oracle is famous for comes along with it.

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Financial Services Company, 201-500 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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Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Failsafe- ability to aggregate low cost link and increase enterprise WAN bandwidth and also provide safe failor over in case of link interruption, with almost zero drops. In a lab test for voice it works perfectly for voice.
Config Change without system interruption (change config and apply it during Maintenance windows).

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Insurance Company, 501-1000 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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Professional Training & Coaching Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Talari Aware management solution very complex to set up useful dashboards
Management interface seems overly complex (7.3), though this was supposedly improved in 9.0

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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

Starting Price

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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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Support Rating

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Oracle SD-WAN (Talari) 8.0

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So far so good. I have no problems with support; they were able to deliver a good service to us every time we needed it.

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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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While I haven't looked at Silverpeak in a long time and haven't used any of the other big players, this product is a dedicated SD-WAN solution, so no need to get a combination device, unless that's important. We will likely implement SD-WAN through our next firewall platform refresh as a backup to Talari.

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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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Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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lowes oue WAN links Cost
Lower our Tshoot time /remote office

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