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Attribute Ratings
- Cisco Routers is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
Cisco Routers
93%
19 Ratings

7.1
Darktrace
71%
8 Ratings
Support Rating
Cisco Routers
N/A
0 Ratings

9.4
Darktrace
94%
4 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco Routers
Cisco has a very easy CLI and most importantly it is known to most network engineers. There is a huge possibility that Cisco solutions are available over the Internet for a particular problem or a use case. Cisco has been improving ever since, however, Cisco can improve in areas such as rollback or error checking mechanism during the configuration, Juniper Networks Routers has done a great job in this area. Cisco is well suited for enterprise environments, however, for Service Provider Networks there are many options available.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Networking Company, 10,001+ employeesDarktrace
I think if you manage a large number of mailboxes, you need a reliable solution to protect corporate email from any threat. This solution uses AI to analyze emails to check if they're safe or if it's a risk for the organization. It has a good UI (all in English), and the more you're using it, the more you get. There are a lot of metrics and indicators to help the email security admin.
Information Technology Audit Manager
GDESFacilities Services, 201-500 employees
Pros
Cisco Routers
- Cisco routers offer networks for the WAN, the LAN and the cloud include advanced analytics, optimization security incorporated with them you can have a comprehensive and proven solution.
- They are well designed to support coherent optics to drive the convergence of optical layers, as well as systems that offer lower power consumption
- They are very reliable for networks that are constantly growing traffic with fixed or modular systems that allow handling large traffic flows
- They are quite friendly and easy-to-use computers on their different platforms, whether ios, ios xe, XR
Post Sales and Network Engineer / Southern Cone
LogicalisTelecommunications, 201-500 employees
Darktrace
- Monitors your network for unusual behaviour; as it learns what is normal for your network, you don't need to worry too much about things that are normal for your organisation, but might be considered odd in other places, triggering as alarms. It can also detect more subtle changes such as a device accessing a server but at an unusual time.
- There are a large number of models that are used to create the alerts, which can all be customised, and you can also create your own from scratch, to allow you to tailor it perfectly to your situation.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Aviation & Aerospace Company, 501-1000 employeesCons
Cisco Routers
- Software-defined radios could be used so that both the radios could be converted into 5 GHz model to provide enhanced connectivity in network congestion scenarios.
- Support for low power IoT devices.
- Should provide more details about devices connected to the access points such as the risk score of the devices.
- Enhanced encryption algorithms and quick firmware upgrades.
Sr. Consultant
UnitedLexLegal Services, 1001-5000 employees
Darktrace
- Really had a poor time of identifying devices and what the device's purpose was - a simple nmap scan did a better job. The problem is they expect you to fine-tune the results - which is exactly what you would expect - but day one it found over 2,000 servers (and I only have 112).
- Really had a hard time separating network traffic into locations - I use distinct subnets for my buildings, but there was no good way to create a logical map of my traffic internally. Did not garner a sense of trust that it was seeing everything.
- Sat through a few "analyst" reports - which showed me possible threats in my environment. I am already using a few open source tools, and they actually found more than the analyst reports. Also, there was no way to get the reports on your own - you had to work through their analysts to get the information.
Director of Information Technology
Council Rock School DistrictEducation Management, 1001-5000 employees
Pricing Details
Cisco Routers
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Darktrace
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Support Rating
Cisco Routers
No score
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Darktrace
Darktrace 9.4
Based on 4 answers
Darktrace support is excellent in my experience. They send a competent engineer on-site to provide on-boarding training. They were also very responsive in responding to questions and concerns. Having an individual point of contact who is a competent network and security engineer is not a common experience, at least for me.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Primary/Secondary Education Company, 1001-5000 employeesAlternatives Considered
Cisco Routers
Cisco routers are great and are the industry standard. They have proven their ability to last and [continually] provide support for their devices. You can go into a lot of IT closets and see old Cisco switches and routers. Why? because they are workhorses and they last. Their compatibility [with] other systems and hardware makes them hard to beat.
Security Systems Analyst
Council Bluffs Community School DistrictEducation Management, 501-1000 employees
Darktrace
The Darktrace user interface was improved. Darktrace provides more metrics and more info to decide if an email is malicious or not in doubt case. Darktrace provides a lot of info about the email being analyzed, if there was a previous communication between both parts before for example, it's so easy to deploy.
Information Technology Audit Manager
GDESFacilities Services, 201-500 employees
Return on Investment
Cisco Routers
- Network management has become easy and fast with cloud based portal.
- Network policies could be rolled out quickly across the devices.
- Improvement in Network security.
- Stable internet connection has lead to less downtime and more productivity.
- Stable internet connection in each location within the organization.
Sr. Consultant
UnitedLexLegal Services, 1001-5000 employees
Darktrace
- Darktrace is covering some lack of security issues.
- Darktrace helps the company to follow some compliance obligations.
- Darktrace can't solve all issues. It needs to work with other Security tools (e.g Splunk).
Senior Network Engineer
FexcoFinancial Services, 1001-5000 employees