Cisco Internet Edge Routers Are The Most Reliable Ive Used

Our Cisco Routers are being used accross our organization at multiple sites. While they typically serve the function of a reliable and "bulletproof" internet edge router, they can also handle a robust QoS workload. This had been especially useful at some of our sites that have firewalls deployed at the edge that are only capable of supporting a limited number of QoS classes. The ASRs gives us the flexibility of extending our QoS requirements (where QoS'ing closer to the source is not possible) with very minimal limitations.

Not quite. It wasn't necessarily a "compatibility" consideration with other Cisco devices in our organization, but more so familiarity with the Cisco IOS as most of our engineers are very well versed with Cisco. Also, while there are plenty of other more cost effective options (such as Juniper), several of us have supported ASRs at other organizations and we collectively agreed that they are the most reliable edge routers we've ever worked with.

We have. We have leveraged AAA services on our ASRs, VRF lite, and zone based firewalls in the past. Another example is utilizing features like AS path filtering or no export communities to prevent our AS from becoming a transit AS.

Cisco routers have always been the most reliable and stable devices I've used in comparison to other vendors routers. They also have the best TAC support which is something that we always evaluate when purchasing critical equipment positioned in critical segments of our network.