Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms - a good overall choice
June 11, 2025

Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms - a good overall choice

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Modules Used

  • Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software
  • Cisco Catalyst 8200 Series
  • Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series
  • Cisco Catalyst 8500 Series

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms

We utilize the routers for SDWAN for branch and data center and autonomous mode for internet edge.
Problems we’ve faced have been with code and hardware bugs of drops with the qfp in the 8500s.
Additional bugs we’ve run into were memory errors on the 8200 platform.
Licensing issues due to HSEC requirements.
Overall product has been mostly stable.

Pros

  • SDWAN
  • Throughput
  • Rack size

Cons

  • Scalability
  • Quality control of product (physical components)
  • Keep up with clear difference of SDWAN vs Autonomous mode capabilities
  • 8200 are sometimes a hard price point for our customer to swallow as our "low end" offering.
  • 8500s are also at times a difficult price point.
  • 8300s seem to be a decent offering in a middle tier offering.
Even with other issues, it's been generally an easy router to deploy once we've focused on our use cases and we have been able to be consistent in our offerings.

Do you think Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms again?

Yes

Mostly Scaleable - Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms 8500 series routers work well for higher end needs. 8200 series feel somewhat appropriate for low end, but doesn't quite nail it, feels like we easily need to go to 8300.

Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms Support

Depends on TAC engineer assigned. Some understand the difference of 8500 vs other 8k series, others not so much.
ProsCons
None
Less knowledgeable
Not kept informed
Escalation required
Need to explain problems multiple times
Price
Yes
Memory bug - certain series of modules were bad/wrong/etc and TAC solution was to RMA entire boxes.

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