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Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)

Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)

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What is Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)?

The Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000) is a SD-WAN ready router.

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Easy with ASR1000

8 out of 10
May 30, 2022
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Cisco ASR 1000 Routers

10 out of 10
April 28, 2021
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ASR 1000 is serving as WAN aggregation Router for termination of our external 10G links. Enabled with active active VRF lite BGP routing …
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The Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000) is a SD-WAN ready router.

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The most common users of Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Rohit Narang | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Cisco ASR 1000 Series
We use ASR1000 series in our testing department for setting up new visualization tools and streaming servers. It also supports the redundant Internet links developed for UAT and SIT for critical configuration testings. The availability of high speed Internet is a critical requirement here as we have many clients who use cloud-based big data clusters and Qliksense for checking live data. The wholesale banking products as well the real-time macro-economic data is fed from Oxford economics to run various Monte Carlo simulations, so availability of high speed and minimal downtime is vital.
  • We use the firewall services which come inbuilt and are vital for a secured network.
  • It's a good spend of money due to the services offered with the dual configuration.
  • Performance and integration within Cisco products are up to par compared to market competitors.
  • The command line interface could be made better with adding more Unix shell features.
  • Cost could be a major concern if the desired throughput is not achieved.
  • For video streaming, the mid-sized packed based data could spike the latency, so an appropriate plan needs to be deployed for packet size.
We picked Cisco due to already available in-house knowledge and a fair amount of experience. It is also suited for any business environment. It scales to accommodate large business needs and offers an agile environment with real-time lossless data ask with a multitude of complexity. Though cost needs to be kept in mind at first, given the longevity of Cisco, it's not alarming.
  • It is a healthy return on investment with planned packed size data. Average unicast latency is low and consistent with small and large packets (barring mid-sized).
  • Cisco devices last longer and also have a decent trade-in policy to recover some value when equipment is replaced.
  • Higher concurrent IPSec tunnels are offered, we tested for 1500+, fielding both encrypted and a mix of encrypted and cleartext traffic.
Yes, it is important, however, being a major Cisco products user, our organization did not feel many challenges. We only needed OSPF and BGP implementations.
We have used the firewall service extensively given the privacy concerns for the Financial Institutions. So in a way, routers are the first line of defense and are crucial for removing junk & malign data. Furthermore, these actions provide aid by servicing the denial queue by keeping it short.
We have hardly faced routers with notable performance troubles even when the marked capacity has been utilized till the maximum. Though compared to the predecessor Cisco 7200 series, it has sharply improved but more enhancements can be done as well.
With the available handy skills and affirmative experience with Cisco, it was picked though some features for the aforesaid products were equally good and worthwhile.
June 19, 2018

Cisco Routers

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Cisco ISR 4000 Series
  • Cisco ASR 1000 Series
We use the ISR for our branches and the ASR in our data centers. We have more than 50 branches and 12 data centers around the world. We have 2x MPLS networks connecting our branches and data centers and we are using BGP to dynamic routing all our traffic. We also use ASR to receive circuits from our clients in a BPN environment.
  • Thoughput
  • Reliability
  • Powerful programmability features on NX-OS
  • Low latency
  • Native integration with SD-WAN
In my opinion, Cisco Routers are well suited in all scenarios, from small offices to large data centers, Cisco has models to suit in all environments. A note to the new NX-OS code where you can use on DNA Center, or use Python with netconf or restconf to automate various if not all operations and deployments.
  • Reliability
  • Good ROI
  • Best support team
Yes. We are using in almost 70% of our branches and 100% of Cisco gear (switches and access points) besides the routers. Our data centers are almost Cisco (routers, firewalls, WSA proxies, switches, UCS servers). One thing that Cisco is doing now and in my opinion is very important is to align with all opensource capabilities from Google (and Google Cloud).
No. We do not use any special security feature from the routers, besides normal ACL and/or prefix lists. We maintain our security by using dedicated firewalls and proxies. We have some old VPNs using routers as concentrators but we are moving from it as well. Besides that, we use the secure part of BGP using PKI.
Cisco Routers are more reliable than all other brands I have used before, mainly regarding data centers. The new architecture of the ASR providing scalability and with all different types of modules you can use in any kind of environment and can solve all needs. We are deploying a new data center using ACI and Cisco Routers and we are very happy with the results.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Cisco ASR 1000 Series
We use the ASR1000 series for our Internet edge. We run with a full BGP feed with redundant routers and redundant Internet links. They provide us with highly available Internet access. This is a critical service for us because many of our core services are cloud-based. General access to the Internet is also a core service we provide. Even a short outage can generate a lot of trouble tickets and complaints.
  • For those who are used to Cisco, they are easy to use.
  • They interoperate well with other vendors. Everyone is compatible with Cisco.
  • Performance is excellent. I’ve never had a Cisco router that was unable to perform as Cisco says it will.
  • The CLI can sometimes be inconsistent. You get used to it, but could be better.
  • Programmability is hit and miss. Overall, newer code has better support for programmability.
  • Cisco’s pricing is relatively high. No one pays list price, so list prices are very high and can be off putting at first.
Cisco Routers are well suited for any business environment at scales beyond SOHO/small business. If the business is small, Cisco may be more power and expense that can be afforded or is required. It depends on the business needs and complexity of the requirements.
  • High availability has been achieved with our dual router configuration, though this is perhaps more a design success than a Cisco success.
  • We are primarily a Cisco shop. Keeping a unified platform simplified management and minimizes the need to train staff, especially at lower tiers of the support hierarchy.
  • Cisco devices have excellent longevity and last a long time. Cisco also has a decent trade in policy to recover some value when equipment is replaced.
Compatibility with our other devices wasn’t critical for this particular deployment. We just needed well supported OSPF and BGP implementations and a solid platform.
Our Internet edge routers provide our first line of defense by blocking obviously spoofed traffic. This reduces denial of service traffic and protects against the simplest threats. This reduces the load on more expensive firewalls.
Our Cisco Routers route well and never have any performance issues within their expected capacity. The routing protocol implementations are solid. They just work.
Cisco Routers are a better fit for my org. Juniper seemed to be the best comparison, but mainly we chose to remain with Cisco because our in-house knowledge was already there. We didn’t see a big enough difference in other options to make it worth the change.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Cisco ASR 1000 Series
  • Other
We use cisco routers for both edge, core and application service routing and tunnelling. I also use a Cisco router at home. The routers in play have to be reliable and performant above all else and the HA feature set needs to be both simple and reliable.
  • They boot quickly.
  • Are well documented.
  • Provide good troubleshooting telemetry
  • Firmware/patches updates are hidden behind support.
  • Feature vendor lock in.
  • Edge cases for feature capability not well documented or supported.
In facilities where you have trained staff to support them. In price sensitive and low resourced use cases they are not as appropriate. When you need edge or core routing they are the best in breed despite the cost overhead.
  • They last as long as you continue to pay maintenance.
  • They are easy to deploy if your use case matches documented patterns.
  • They don't work so well in cross vendor integrations.
Yes compatibility is key but Cisco devices tend to have proprietary features which limit this use case.
In siloed operation they provide good threat management but require external orchestration and management. At scale this doesn't work so well.
Fail-over between matched devices work very well. Fall back and migrations can be tricky but are feasible with appropriate planning.
They are the industry standard and have been using them forever predating my employment.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Cisco ASR 1000 Series
ISR routers are used as intra-area edge routers for our 3 major campuses as well as our HA edge routers to the internet.
  • Intra area routing
  • HA redundant internet edge
  • No areas of improvement that have a need for our use
Internet edge routers
  • 100% uptime for internet connectivity (no outages attributable to Cisco ASR)
We are 100% Cisco for network infrastructure. Exceptions are ipam, f5 and Palo alto firewalls.
We do not use Cisco for Internet edge security.
I have had no experience with other brands of routers, but am completely satisfied with the Cisco line of routers.
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