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Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)

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What is Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)?

Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000) provides a scalable, flexible foundation so you can quickly integrate leading IT initiatives like SD-WAN and edge compute, while meeting the explosive network performance need driven by cloud-based application adoption.

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Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000) provides a scalable, flexible foundation so you can quickly integrate leading IT initiatives like SD-WAN and edge compute, while meeting the explosive network performance need driven by cloud-based application adoption.

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The most common users of Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Great product

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 06, 2024
DI
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
3 years of experience
We use Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers for 2 purposes.
First, we use them to serve as gateway router for our sites, configuring VPNs for internal resources connectivity and static routes towards specific destinations.
Second, we use them as voice gateways at some locations. Depending on the needs, we might use smaller ISR models, but we have Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers also in place.
  • Routing
  • VPN
  • Voice services
This is a great piece of hardware. It will suit for sites with large number of users, when you need to do routing, VPN tunnels, redundant gateway protocols, voice and security services. For small/medium sites you might want to look at smaller models, like ISR series 1000, which will be very good.

Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers product review

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 01, 2024
MD
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
2 years of experience
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers is extremely versatile and enterprise class device supporting varied models depending on business requirements. It is based on IOS XE, which support various API and integrated with various monitoring systems. It support netflow based monitoring for all class of systems. Build in network capabilities address the growing requirement for application aware in distributed environment. Various models support various backbone speeds for enterprise networks. Available in 2U sleek models requires minimal power consumption compared to its predecessors 3900 series routers. It can be used for converged branch networks as it can run multiple services including encryption, monitoring traffic management and WAN optimization. It supports enterprise licensing model, which makes is future ready. It also supports SDWAN, DNAC which makes it easy to provision, manage, monitor and troubleshoot. The pricing model is flexible, which allows it to increase the backbone bandwidth as per our requirement, so we pay as you grow.
  • Pay as you grow - Increase the backbone bandwidth as per your enterprise requirement. So single box can support multiple variants of offices.
  • Space consolidation and improved TCO - Total cost of ownership as single converged device able to support branch and enterprise platform, simple to provision, manage, maintain, troubleshoot and monitor. support encryption, UC, WAN optimization and performance management tools.
  • Business continuity and resilience - ISR models support dual integrated power supplies, with ability to support PoE power to endpoint. Modular network interface. Supports Cisco Unified survivable remote site telephony (SRST), which serves as resiliency to Cisco UC Collaboration solution.
  • Lower WAN expenses - integrated and embedded SDWAN solution for enabling low cost internet solutions.
- Well suited for branch networks
- All in one integrated device for small offices as supports WAN modules and PoE so can be used for SDWAN
- Good choice in front of firewalls as NAT devices
- well suited for Internet connectivity
- Support encryption and WAN optimization for VPN based networks
- Chosen one for Cisco UC SRST required to build resilient unified comms for Cisco collaboration services

Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000) Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 11, 2023
KU
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
10 years of experience
SWe use this product in my organization like we do OSPF routing between office location and we do BGP routing to pair between ISP.
  • It's working well in routing as long as we know the performance, we know the neighbor, we know how many routing table we need to do. It's working well. We don't have to touch anything. Yes, it stays there. If we don't do anything, it stays there for so long.
Actually if we place it into the internet gateway, we do nothing in front of the firewall. Yes, it's working well also, if we put into the routing, it works well. But we should not use it instead of switch. Because some people tend to use the router instead of layer three suite. So yes, I try to use it.

Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000) Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 07, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
8 years of experience
We use them for our wide area network because we have two redundant wide area networks. We have a hundred meg link coming off the sites, terminated our data centers. We use this product for that kind of connectivity between the regional sites and also the data center. At the regional sites, we have the Cisco 4300 series and at the data center, we have the Cisco 4000 series. That's why we use our end-to-end connectivity using those devices.
  • First of all, I would say that they're very efficient in terms of having end-to-end connectivity and also uptime. It's all time. We never had any issues dropping links and things like that. So provided you have a good bandwidth and a good backend, this device just works. We never touch them. It's brilliant. And the routing we use as well, the PBI OSP or BGP works really nicely with the underlying iOS version as well. So I think from the reliability perspective that's why we trust the brand. It works really well.
We just moved into a new office now. We used to work in the valley, which is on Ham Street and now we moved into Dan. So when we moved we had a lot of this product in stock and we just brought it from our IT store and then deployed it in level 13 within a few minutes, everything up and running. So it's brilliant. So from that of fast deployment, it's quite a good technology. And also from reliability at the time we were looking to get at least a hundred megabit per second from a bandwidth perspective. And then we went to attack and then we said hey, can we actually upgrade this one into whatever capacity they have? Within a second we got a new license, we applied the new license and then we can get a good bandwidth on that as well. So it's a seamless kind of experience from a customer perspective, I think it's really good that you can deploy it in very quick and fast kind of scenarios.

Cisco Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 26, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
5 years of experience
We mainly use it not for data, but mainly for voice. It's our platform for Cisco call manager, voice over ip.
  • Easy to program.
It's well suited if it's like if you have a good decent size amount of employees at a site that's worth the investment so that you could or the phone can register to it, but it's not worth it if you have a small site to spend that amount of money just to give them a couple of, you know, phones or something.

Cisco Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 26, 2023
AJ
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
4 years of experience
It takes care of providing the WAN connections for our network. So it's the WAN connectivity.
  • One of the things I like is because I'm in operations, I deal with software upgrades. So some of the other products take a while after you reboot them or upgrade them to come back up. What I like about these ISRs, is that they reboot really quickly, come up, and are back providing that connectivity quickly. So our downtime is minimal, which I appreciate.
A beefy router, so it wants to be handling a lot of routes. So probably an environment where you're, you're handling multiple circuits or maybe multiple routes. Maybe in a smaller enterprise, you would use something different or something smaller or at a branch. But this typical model is meant for an enterprise data center.

Good router, although the addons can get very expensive.

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 18, 2023
KR
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
10 years of experience
I use these to enable communications from field sites on the corporate network via Internet, Cell, Satellite, MPLS.
  • These are great for IKE V2 VPNs with serial console access
It is perfect for scenarios where T1/E1 connectivity is needed.
It is ideal for voice and SRST implementations.
It is expensive if modular connectivity is not required.
It is not recommended if POE is needed.
It is not recommended if advanced SD-WAN features are needed.
It is not recommended for high bandwidth sites.

CISCO ISR4000, awesome platform

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 01, 2023
iT
Vetted Review
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
5 years of experience
As a membre of the network team in the Cloud Business Unit of Orange Business, we are using those router at our customer premises for remote console access and they are doing the job perfectly.

Other uses cases, where we use them for routing purpose.

The only faced problem, is the high lead time to get them.
  • easy to isntall
  • simple to manage
  • fit our need
A console access to our devices for the last resort.

Routing / Natting on some specific customer Platforms

Let your voice be heard

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 03, 2022
CP
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
6 years of experience
We are currently using Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers as our voice gateway routers at our branch offices. These routers allow us to connect directly to telco PRIs so that our branch offices have phone services. We also use them as our backup WAN router if the primary WAN router would ever happen to go down.
  • The ISR 4000 is an excellent router for our voice services. We purchased CUBE licensing in order to do this.
  • The ISR 4000 is an excellent router for security purposes as well. We purchased the security license with the router and that allowed us to run a Zone-Based Firewall.
  • The ISR 4000 is very simple and straight forward to configure.
We are strictly a Cisco shop. Since our entire phone system is Cisco-based, it only makes sense that we have a Cisco router as our voice gateway. Not only that, but Cisco products just seem to be very reliable, and if you do have any issues at all Cisco technical support is just a phone call away.

Cisco 4000 Is the Gold Standard for Small/medium Office Telephony Needs

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 30, 2022
MR
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
5 years of experience
We use the routers in my organization primarily as voice gateways. Many of our locations still use legacy PRI (serial/copper) handoffs from our vendors and we need a gateway in order to receive the connections. The other primary function that they serve is to be the coordinator for SRST for our Cisco phones. If the phones lose connection to Call Manager, the ISR4300s we have will take over call routing duties so our office can continue to receive calls even though they have been isolated from the subscribers. At some of our smaller locations, we also use them for some basic core routing functionality. They are certainly capable of handling all of the duties in one appliance and are a good value.
  • Voice gateway
  • SRST coordinator
  • Core routing
  • DHCP server
I would recommend this to anyone who is looking for a voice gateway device for a small to medium office environment that included 100 to 500 people. This is where we have these devices deployed and they work very well for that purpose. They provide SRST for Cisco Phones and are robust enough to handle core routing and DHCP services if needed. Because they are able to accept many different modules, the flexibility at the telephone edge makes them ideal for consistency in base hardware. They are easy to configure and licensing is less problematic than other Cisco devices. Although they can be cumbersome to design from scratch, Cisco has many "bundled" options that include purpose-built hardware, especially in the voice realm. For what they do, they are relatively inexpensive compared to other Cisco options.

Best SD-WAN branch Routers

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 21, 2022
LM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
3 years of experience
We use Cisco ISR 4000 series routers for the SD-WAN branch network. They offer a great quality of service with increased bandwidth and throughput. Cisco ISR 4000 series routers have edge networking capabilities and provide reliable, secure branch office connectivity. They offer an aggregate data throughput of up to 100mb/s which can also be upgraded to 300mb/s.
  • Speed
  • Easy to deploy
  • Reliable
Cisco Integrated Services 4000 series routers are very good for SD-WAN networks and can also be used for MetroLAN and MPLS networks. They are very fast, reliable, and easy to deploy and manage. Cisco ISR 4000 series routers can be used for large enterprise networks. Can be managed through an integrated management controller.

Easy Deployment, Configuration, and Trusted Routers

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 19, 2021
NH
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
1 year of experience
Cisco ISR 4000 Series features simple, easy-to-understand commands. To create the best possible routing engine, they also provide outstanding features. We have used this series of routers in both locations. On the device, we’ve configured routing, switching, and application visibility. In some of our branches, it serves as the default gateway. As a company, we needed a dependable router that could provide a strong IPSec-site-to-site VPN. AES-256 encryption is used to secure the network and it works with non-Cisco equipment in multi-vendor deployments. We can find a lot of information about these products and services online.
  • Excellent internet connectivity, excellent security, storage, and the ability to be upgraded are all provided by this device.
  • Applications and advanced encryption methods are used to simplify operations and management while also automating some aspects of it.
  • Current IPSec encryption support offers gigabit ethernet connectivity along with high-speed data transfer rates.
With many WAN connections, Cisco ISR 4000 Series is a good fit for large businesses. It can be used to automatically switch between different internet connections. It's capable of managing everything from computation services to virtual private networks (VPNs). The Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Routers are very capable. Its ability to establish site-to-site VPNs has also been beneficial to us. This router line is something I definitely recommend.

Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers For All

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 24, 2021
DS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
2 years of experience
I'm in the service department and we recommend [Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)]. For branches, [the] Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Router is best for connectivity. It is an intelligent device to manage network architecture such as SD-WAN and Cloud Computing, it provides next-generation encryption and integrity verifications. I suggest this device for future visibility.
  • Simplified operations and manage
  • Automation with application
  • Advance encryption method used
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Service Routers is suited for branch-to-branch connectivity (i.e Hub and Spoke Topology). [It is] also compatible [with] SD-WAN Technology. It [simplifies] network management, deploys networks in minutes, supports Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM)-based containers, [and] provides support for integrated applications. Basically, I'm not facing any issues from the [Cisco] ISR 4000!!

Top class WAN router

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 23, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
3 years of experience
Our organization had the requirement of having redundant internet links to improve the uptime of internet connectivity at our plant and head office. Therefore, we needed a robust and reliable WAN router that also supported BGP to provide auto-failover between primary and secondary internet links. The Cisco ISR 4000 series router met our requirements perfectly, and it has been working flawlessly since its deployment.
  • BGP
  • IP sla
  • Dynamic routing
  • ACL
  • NAT
  • IPsec VPN
Cisco ISR 4000 series is an enterprise-class edge router. It is a reliable and robust device. It is well suited for those organizations that have a large number of WAN connections to their branch offices. It can also be used to implement auto-link failover between multiple internet links. It is not suitable for small businesses, as it will be heavy on their budget. [S]mall businesses do not require such a high-performance device.

Cisco 4000 good ROI

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 13, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
4 years of experience
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated service routers (ISR 4000) is being used company-wide. [I]t is placed at our switching center [and provides] physical accessibility for a limited [number] of staff. This equipment is very versatile, including the ability to install modules, [and] to allow one piece of network gear to manage and facilitate added services. [It does this] without [the] need to buy other hardware and support services. This enables us to have a very high number of "9s" uptime for all of our user community scattered across our offices. We use [this] kind of router [in] our remote locations as well, and it [works] perfectly fine.
  • 9s uptime for all users
  • IPSec encryption
  • High speed
In my opinion, it handled the encryption very well and I would like to recommend it to my colleagues as well. It is pretty easy to configure, and maintenance is quite easy.

Excellent performance Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 10, 2021
TA
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
3 years of experience
We are a global provider of managed Internet and hybrid networks, SD-WAN, and Cloud connectivity solutions. In the LATAM region, we mostly provide dedicated internet services and Broadband for our fortune 500 customers. In order to provide the service with the quality our clients expect, we use Cisco 4000 Series [Integrated Services] Routers, which gives us the confidence we need to deliver the best solution for them. There's no competition for them on the market if you'd like a guaranteed satisfying customer experience.
  • Delivers exceptional internet connectivity
  • Excellent security
  • Provides storage
  • It's upgradable
  • You can chose from different [Cisco] ISR 4000 models according to your needs
As previously stated, Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers are a perfect fit if you plan to deliver high performing internet solution to a customer who is willing to pay extra (compared to what can be paid) for quality. These devices are as reliable as they can get. While using this equipment, you'll never have to worry about it.

Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000) Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 05, 2021
AM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
5 years of experience
It is used as a WAN router or some call it a perimeter router, before we didn't have any router at WAN edge. The main need of this router is to create IPSEC over GRE tunnel between my regional branches and [Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)] [works] very well for my organization.
  • IPSEC
  • GRE
  • VPN
  • debugs
[Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)] are well suited where you have a high intensity of traffic, and connect to multiple WAN links. For small business offices, it is not a suitable device but a waste of money.

ISR Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 15, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
4 years of experience
We have a High Availability pair in place as if routers. We are able to use these to do many different things including landing VPNs and BGP. These are our routers on our primary site. We have had great success with the Cisco product line and are not planning on moving off of it.
  • Traffic Controls
  • Security
This is well designed for our segmented network for both staff and students. We have been able to protect both sides of our network with this box. We have found great success and will see it through. We have also benefited from landing site-to-site VPNs with the router.

Cisco Networking Made Easy

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 14, 2021
TH
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
4 years of experience
We use Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000) for our WAN connectivity including sub-services of WAAS, UCS-E blades (running VMware ESXI) inside them and the LTE NIM cards (for failover backup Internet). We also, at our hub end, use these for voice gateway services for our VOIP phone infrastructure. This equipment is very versatile, including the ability to install modules to allow one piece of network gear to manage and facilitate added services without needing to buy other hardware and support services. This enables us to have a very high number of "9s" uptime for all of our user community scattered across our offices.
  • DMVPN
  • QOS for VOIP
  • LTE backup Internet services
  • Internal virtualized VMware services (AD, print, domain, file and other VM services)
  • Voice/SIP trunking services
  • Excellent DR networking capabilities
  • MPLS trunking services
Well suited: Voice trunking services, MPLS/Internet trunking services, WAN connectivity, failover Internet services, fax services for VOIP, and for disaster recovery services. For the latter, we have a Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Router (ISR 4000) on hand in the event of a necessary need to temporarily set up a remote office for collaboration meetings, if an office loses power/access temporarily, or to put on a special event while needing internal software/services to display on site. Configuration is the most difficult part, but once it works, you can take this anywhere that has a network cable or cellular coverage, have full remote access (via it tuning up a VPN tunnel) as if internal, including phone, Wi-Fi, and network access to facilitate any business need.

Stop researching, buy it, and asks questions later!

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 03, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
3 years of experience
My place of business was tasked with upgrading the core routers of the network to give us an overall faster network with less old hardware barely hanging on by a thread. We had some routers that were running for almost 10yrs straight and were on their last legs. We went all out and replaced the majority of them with the [Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)].
  • THE fastest routers I've had the pleasure of working on!
  • Tons of connectivity options available on these bad boys
  • Hands down some of the best tech support in the world
Ok so they're fast, check. They're secure, check. They're well made, check. So what would stop me from recommending at all?? Well they're not cheap, not at all. And it doesnt end there, if you want to keep these guys on the smart licensing track (which you do, believe me, it will save you headaches) then its even more money. But like they say, you get what you pay for!

Cisco ISR for the win! I would recommend this to anyone.

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 02, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
4 years of experience
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000) are a fantastic choice for an integrated services router for many types and sizes of business. We are using Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000) throughout the company as a means to connect our various analog services at sites into our overall Cisco network. They have allowed us to address the problem of incompatible devices and bad user experiences. We are really enjoying the features included with the base Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)!
  • Easy to set up and nicely designed GUI
  • Huge scalability factor
  • Very secure platform with many bug patches regularly
  • Many features that other vendors are missing or that they'd make you pay to include
If you have a branch that needs a super secure connection to network applications or if you're integrating analog systems to get them digital, this is the box for you. It's well priced and can be put in many types of network racks. It's quiet as well, which I cannot say for the last one we had. Easy to recommend this to anyone looking.

Another fantastic network device by the gurus at Cisco!

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 29, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
4 years of experience
Most Cisco shops use a strong Cisco branded switching and routing backbone. Our company is no different. About every 3 years we upgrade to the latest Cisco routers and the Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000) was our latest upgrade in the router sector. They have been implemented throughout the organization and are now being used to replace problematic voice routers as well.
  • Modular design allows for lots of expansion options
  • The voice module gives us full control over all our VOIP systems
  • The system integrates well with our Cisco management and monitoring tools
I could easily recommend this line of routers for a business associate asking for a recommendation. Cisco prides itself in being secure and up to date on bug fixes and major security threats. You generally will get a long life out of these devices as well as long runtime without requiring a maintenance window to reboot or fix.

Overall Review of Cisco ISR 4000 series

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 15, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
1 year of experience
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers [(ISR 4000)] helped provide our organization with a secure WAN connection for our remote sites. There were no issues so far as we use it across our whole organization. It is easy to set up with a nice default configuration. As it supports SD-WAN technology, we find almost no issues with the product deploying in the USA.
  • Support for SD-WAN
  • Very easy to set up and simple configuration
  • Have wide range of features
  • Able to handle significant traffic
The [Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers] (ISR 4000) handles everything from VPNs, computation services, and switches, it is well suited for all the tasks we put with almost no issues coming in mind. The only issue with this product is the cost, but other than that we found this product a lot better than what we have used in the past.

Top of the pack in terms of performance

Rating: 7 out of 10
December 13, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
3 years of experience
[Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers] (ISR 4000) is being used by the whole organization in places where we needed a solid router choice. Competitors like Aruba and Juniper typically have solid devices, but I would put the Cisco's on a different level. Price of course is a concern, but overall the Cisco's are worth the price when they solve problems like we had (manageability, scalability, security, reliability).
  • A big strength of Cisco in general is their support team
  • These boxes are very stable and do not require a ton of patches after deployment
  • Pretty easy setup if you're already familiar to cisco command line
Not much to complain about and if asked for a recommendation would definitely have the [Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)] in the conversation. You are expected to already have a decent knowledge of cisco devices, and they don't hold you're hand during setup, but if you've got those two covered then its a no brainer to recommend.

Cisco router- All in one solution

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 09, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
2 years of experience
We used 4331 ISR router for Voice Infrastructure where the PRI line terminated on the router and SIP trunk was also enabled.
It helps for quick SIP trunk expansion by just adding extra cube license and no hardware change is required.
  • It's a great product which does data routing and it is used for Voice infrastructure too
  • In branches where minimum capacity is required then this can be used as an independent PBX with dialing capability.
  • SIP trunks can be easily terminated on this router which is quick and not much efforts to get it working.
  • It also works as a survivable PBX in remote branches in case of WAN failure.
this router fits in all the environment whether it be campus/branch or remote location. It helps in data routing and PBX functionality both so its used as per the requirement.
till the SRST enhancement are not available it is less likely to be used as a survivable PBX in remote locations.
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