The Review
June 16, 2025

The Review

Tom Magnett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Routers

  • Cisco NCS 500 Series
We use both the N540-24Z8Q2C0-M and N540-28Z4C-SYS for our Edge routers. We are primarily a L2 transport network. We use MPLS TE-Tunnels to transport our L2VPN's.

Pros

  • Well, I like the IOS-XR7 over XE.
  • The port density vs the size is good. (Probably no different to all other vendors I guess)

Cons

  • We have two versions of the NCS540, one issue I have is they run different versions of XR.
  • Trying to get the smart-licensing to work is a pain sometimes. Especially when we upgrade from 7.4.1 to 24.3.2 and they change how they implement licensing.
  • Cisco is what we use. hard to say without having had other products in the same place as our Cisco Routers what would be good or bad.

Do you think Cisco Routers delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Routers's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Routers live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Cisco Routers go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Routers again?

Yes

To be honest, I don't know that Cisco products are any better than anyone else. I haven't used may other routers. That said, The ones I have used, I do like Cisco's CLI structure.

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