Item: Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)
Rating: 10
Author: KAGNROATH Uk

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SWe use this product in my organization like we do OSPF routing between office location and we do BGP routing to pair between ISP.

Pros and Cons

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 it's good already, but sometimes users ask me why this product doesn't have an interface that other products have. But in term of technical, they don't care. They're just doing command line, and yes it's working well, but if they come both for interface and command line in the sandbox, don't need to integrate with other appliance

Most Important Features

Actually for this product we are not using it so much because we have FTD layer. That's why we don't try to put multiple layers in it. But I saw it working really great. Provides internal security capability. But sometime we need to think and spread the workload between the product so we can optimize its performance

Return on Investment

It is a positive impact for our investment to use the Cisco router because we find out that it is cost effective if we compare to other products. In term of routing, and the specific job that it's used to do.

It's widely compatible with many products, we can integrate with all products. Not to mention it integrate with Cisco ISE and yes it's working well. We even integrate with third party access point. Currently we're using Meraki access point. And we use it with the FTD firewall and even we integrate with other third party firewall. We found out it's working well, not a problem. We don't have to worry about integration. It comes with the standard protocol with every other product support. I feel like other products are trying to catch up the networking design by Cisco.

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

Likelihood to Recommend

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

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000)