Cisco Routers
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Routers
- Cisco ISR 800 Series
- Cisco ISR 4000 Series
- Cisco CSR 1000V Series
- Cisco ASR 1000 Series
- Meraki MX
Our entire organization uses Cisco routers. They provide us a secure WAN, with dynamic failover, and insight into all the traffic traversing the WAN.
- DMVPN is a fantastic, de facto industry standard for remote office connectivity.
- Cisco routers can be integrated with Cloud Web Security, Encrypted Traffic Analytics, SGTAG policy enforcement, and so much more.
- Voice integration, particularly Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) is outstanding.
- Cost
- Real-world performance statistics
- A secure WAN that satisfies our PCI requirements paid for itself quickly.
- Integrating a switch, server, firewall, and router into a single box saved us a ton of money.
I don't think compatibility is much of an issue in the router market now that almost all handoffs are Ethernet. Phone system integration would be the biggest sticking point.
Our WAN is end-to-end encrypted, across multiple redundant uplinks, using Cisco's DMVPN technology. The remote sites also use Zone-Based Firewall (ZBFW) to remove the need for a dedicated firewall appliance.
Cisco ISRs now integrate with Viptela, providing the continuous, performance-monitored access we count on.
Cisco routers have many more features than HP routers, but the JunOS CLI is hard to beat. Ultimately, Cisco's ever-opening platform pushed us toward Cisco.