A quality product but expensive

In today's connected world, many business operations are heavily dependent on the availability and performance of internet connections. The same is the case for our organization, and we needed to implement high availability with automatic failover for internet connectivity with multiple internet links. We chose to implement BGP with our ISP to get this done. We needed a router for this task, so we chose Cisco Routers and completed this task via Cisco Routers. It has been working flawlessly ever since.

All of the networking equipment provided by Cisco is highly compatible with each other and works well with each other. However, this was not an important factor for the purchase because Cisco Routers is not integrated with our internal network. It is being used at the edge of the network to provide auto-failover for internet links with our service providers.

Our organization has not benefited from this capability as we are using firewalls for threat protection and securing our networking edge. The firewalls have a wide range of security features and stronger hardware for inspection and filtering of inbound and outbound traffic. It also has web filtering and antivirus built-in.

Cisco Routers are designed to provide high availability between multiple links. Other routers also have basic high availability features, but they do not support high-end routing protocols like BGP and auto-failover mechanisms like IP SLA. Cisco Routers do support these features, and they are implemented very well into the platform.