Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000) Review
December 07, 2023
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000) Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
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.
- I would say that it's for the reason we are migrating now, that every product you have to replace every three to five years. You have to have a roadmap to move in. The reason is business is changing so the product you had seven years ago may not align with cybersecurity or could be with scalability and also redundancy and other stuff. But if I can focus on this particular brand, the problem we have is bandwidth. It can only support after a hundred meg. The one we have for 300 and now we are going into a one-gig backbone. So that's why we are trying to move into a new technology and also some enhancements from cybersecurity as well. So those are the key reasons from a performance perspective as well as from the cybersecurity perspective we would like to move as well. And we're also changing dynamically from the business side of it, we need to meet their requirements as well from all the cyber stuff. So those are the key points I would say mainly from a bandwidth perspective and from cybersecurity as well.
- From what I was saying previously, I give more positive than negative. There's always room for improvement. That's why Cisco is coming up with this innovative kind of products and they've got a roadmap for the next five, 10 years. So if you look at it, it's changing. So what Cisco was thinking five years ago, 10 years ago when we deployed this stuff, they may not be thinking about what we have now is artificial intelligence with cybersecurity becoming more critical now. So with a new product, I believe that these have been taken into consideration when they innovate those new products. So it's a good product I would say, but there's always room for improvement in an ever-changing industry, especially in IT.
Do you think Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000) delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)'s feature set?
Yes
Did Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000) live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000) go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000) again?
Yes