Mile High IT

Pretty cool device for AWS, still needs some work to be great

• March 31, 2014
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So I can't say this blew my hair back. Documentation from Cisco is very vague and not very well documented past the initial setup. Also a lot of their documentation gets intermixed with the VMWare version of this router, and they don't cross over that much. Leaves you scratching your head wondering WTF is up with the documentation.

Once you finally get it up and running though, it's pretty much a standard Cisco router. However, that is also where the honeymoon ends. I hope you like CLI, cause that's the only way you can program it. I also hope you enjoy calling Cisco, regardless of your partner level, and have their own techs questions "what kind of router did you say it was again?" I find it funny Cisco has pushed us to use ASDM and other GUI config tools and then none of it can hook up to their "virtual" router. Seems a bit backward.

So basically, it's a very cool product, and actually very revolutionary on Cisco's part that they recognize the need for a product such as this, especially with AWS. But overall it seems like an experiment that nobody even at Cisco knows much about and it lacks the basic documentation that even their ASA line has. Get ready to get your mits dirty in CLI again like it's 1998!

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