A beginners View from Cisco Routers
February 09, 2026

A beginners View from Cisco Routers

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Routers

  • Cisco ASR 9000 Series
  • Cisco NCS 500 Series
  • Cisco NCS 5000 Series
We are an ISP, so across the entire organization to route traffic between customers networks or the internet.

Pros

  • The Policy CLI on IOS XR
  • Config clarity on IOS XR with the 2 stage commit concept
  • Monitoring information on the CLI

Cons

  • more feature uniform across products
  • more CLI standardization
  • more information why something is not configured correctly
  • More than half of our revenue stems from Cisco Products.
  • We rely heavily on Cisco, but have a backup plan if Cisco would disappear tomorrow
No, since we have two ASes that have a strict vendor separation, we only use Cisco in one and therefore did not think of interoperability much. But now that [...] throws around crazy tarffis and laws, we never know what may come tomorrow and started to diversify our product line and interoperability/compatibility is becoming more relevant.
We use the basic security features and architecture. So no we don't use any specific protection features.
Cisco Routers does this very well, but it's their main job, so we expect them to handle multiple years of uptime (apart from upgrades)

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

No

Are you happy with Cisco Routers's feature set?

No

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?

No

+ if budget is not a problem, Cisco Routers has it all
+ getting something up and running fast including finding workforces, Cisco Routers is well known and everybody knows the common commands to get started
- if working on a budget, Cisco Routers gets very expensive on high bitrates
- if you are starting new in networking, Cisco Routers documentation is very confusing, not short, nor on point and often spread over many documents. Some features are sometimes not even documented and only found in presentations.

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