Cisco Cloud Services Router (CSR) 1000V - AX Pkg. Max Performance
Cisco Systems, Inc. | 17.03.08aLinux/Unix, Other Cisco IOS XE - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V
What do you like best about the product?
It offers routing, security and network management as cloud services with multi tenancy. The device is infrastructure agnostic and can be used in LAN or WAN.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a scope to make GUI more user friendly which will make the life easy for network administrators.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I used this device in the LAN and it helped in switching traffic in our VMware infrastructure.
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Good for multi uses
What do you like best about the product?
Great security benefits as well as management for networks!
What do you dislike about the product?
License expiration is frustrating- please do not remove features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I needed assistance with security.
Cisco Cloud Services
What do you like best about the product?
This one is simple to use as opposed to our previous system, which frequently crashed. These appear to be well-liked by the staff. Security, Networking, and DMVPN
What do you dislike about the product?
There could be more stability. Not aesthetically appealing and does not entice one to use it. Restriction on live transfer, licensing, and licence upgrades. Excessive IP address assignment is required to get it to work sometimes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I cannot handle essential and urgent information because of connection issues, and I do not believe it is safe for the info to come promptly. This device increases and improves overall productivity and efficiency by removing the need to maintain the router's physical hardware.
Efficient for the price
What do you like best about the product?
For the price tag, It provides good security than enough.
What do you dislike about the product?
When we compare with the other products on the market, configuration is little bit old fashion and not user friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping company network safe.
Router is of Good Quality
What do you like best about the product?
Had no trouble understanding or using, clear instructions and the usage was smooth. No hiccups and an easy suggestion for reliability.
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost of the item can be relooked and revised for better reach.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scaling the network and also the advantage of low-security risks.
Its Reliable and Secure for enterprises
What do you like best about the product?
Secure, price is low, its compatible with most visualization platform and its ease of use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the system fails but can be fixed in no time, Vm cannot be suspended
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Connectivity, streamline of users is at ease and fast.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Frequency of Crashes is low and the system is easy to setup and manage
Provides us with secure 3G/4G LTE WAN cellular and wireless LAN connectivity for mobile environments
Gateway communication for IoT activities is our primary use case. We were looking for a stable mobility solution.
How has it helped my organization?
It provides us with highly secure, reliable, and easy-to-manage 3G/4G LTE WAN cellular and wireless LAN connectivity for mobile environments.
It has delivered high-speed secure VPN services with High Availability, strong firewall protection, Application Visibility and Control, and more. This AMI runs Cisco IOS XE technology features (ASR 1000 and ISR 4000 series) and uses AWS instances with a direct I/O path for higher and consistent performance, as well as 2x performance with IMIX packets.
What is most valuable?
The most important feature is that it is designed for mobile vehicle communication in harsh conditions. It is also:
* easily and rapidly deployed
* highly available
* highly secure
* reliable.
Also, in terms of integration and configuration of the product in our AWS environment, it has 1700/2100 MHz (Band 4 AWS) frequencies.
What needs improvement?
Cisco should improve on the operation due to a clock signal component failure. I would also like to see better security, where there are more access controls and data confidentiality.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable solution. I have put high workloads on it and it has been very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
For my environment it is a good solution.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is good for what it offers.
What other advice do I have?
It integrates with multiple solutions but I have only tried it with AWS solutions.
It provides peace of mind because it is a stable product
It provides peace of mind because it is a stable product that you aren't going to lose sleep over at night wondering if it will be running or not.
It is an all-inclusive solution.
What is most valuable?
* Reliability
* Cost-effectiveness
* Portability
* Security
What needs improvement?
I would like the ability to moderate between devices on-premise to off-premise. This would be a vast improvement.
In the next release, I would like them to add the ability to track a security feature to track the various IPs that come in.
For how long have I used the solution?
One to three years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
In AWS, the size of my environment is relatively small at the moment. I only have 45 VMs.
How is customer service and technical support?
Our experiences with their technical support have been positive.
How was the initial setup?
The integration and configuration of the product in our AWS environment was mostly straightforward.
What was our ROI?
It is sort of like insurance. You hope you never have to use it. We pay a premium, hoping that the service never goes bad on us.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Purchasing the product on the AWS Marketplace was very simplistic. Our organization was trying to centralize our billing costs, and simplicity was best.
The pricing is fine, though it might have been cheaper going through a partner or doing a direct buy.
What other advice do I have?
Cisco has been around for years. It is solid and has one of the most recognized brand names in the world.
Smooth experience purchasing through AWS Marketplace, great routing abilities
Our primary use case of this solution is for routing.
How has it helped my organization?
Cisco has helped improve my organization in the was that it actually helped us to get the communication between on-prem and cloud to become smoother since we got it.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is its routing abilities.
My experience with purchasing through AWS Marketplace was pretty smooth. We pay the same license cost as we do for long-term devices. We chose to procure via AWS Marketplace because that's the option we have. If we wanted to price something in AWS on every PC, we would have to go to the Marketplace and buy it. There are different versions available, so this is the version that has the capabilities that we wanted to explore. That's why we use Marketplace. The cost is a little higher at this point in time; but, we'll see how it goes.
What needs improvement?
They have an online registration that happens after they pick up block months. If they could decrease to yearly or something, sometimes the device is not cell phone accessible. That becomes an issue or challenge for us. If that can be improved, that would be really great.
For how long have I used the solution?
One to three years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have at least more than 60 CSRs deployed and the scale works well. Scalability has not been an issue.
How is customer service and technical support?
The technical support from Cisco is good. I would rate them at least a nine out of ten, if not ten out of ten.
Which solutions did we use previously?
We chose Cisco because the license cost is not that high and it's easy to consume on AWS. It gives access to so many variables that can be used, and even again, on Prime we're using the same one.
I would like to see them have an offline license. The moment you instant ship a device the license never goes off unless you destroy the device in the cloud.
How was the initial setup?
Integration has been pretty smooth. We're still exploring some automation capabilities to configure. Cisco doesn't have it in-house; but, we're trying to make it ourselves.
It integrates well with the other products we're using. We have it with multiple windows like Palo Alto, Arista and it easily integrated with them.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We also looked at Arista alongside Cisco. We didn't end up choosing them because of the cost of the license, the bandwidth, and the support to different routing protocols. Considering what we have on-prem we wanted to match that and we started deploying it in the cloud.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate this solution an eight and not a ten: first, because we don't have automation available in-house and they give us the ability to deploy it on the cloud. Second, because of the license issue that we had with it. Other than that, everything is perfect.
Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was easy; click a button and you have it
We use it to create a transit VPC within multiple AWS accounts.
How has it helped my organization?
It allowed us to create a more secure VPN than we would have been able to do without it.
What is most valuable?
It is supported by Amazon. They had documentation on how to set it up. It was supported by Amazon, so if I had problems, I could get help from Cisco or Amazon.
What needs improvement?
It is too complex. It is not easy to set up, even with the documentation that they provided. It is a little confusing.
I would like a GUI interface. The command line is not very straightforward, especially if you don't use it every day.
For how long have I used the solution?
One to three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Stability is great.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability is very good, as long as you are paying for the licensing to support it.
The size of our environment is about 400 servers and 300 users.
How is customer service and technical support?
If we needed technical support, we would call Cisco and ask for assistance.
How was the initial setup?
The integration and configuration were complex. It was not easy to set up. We had to use a lot of Cisco's help.
It is not being used with anything else. It is its own standalone thing.
What was our ROI?
It just makes our lives a little easier.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The cost needs improvement. It is very expensive through the AWS Marketplace.
Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was easy; click a button and you have it. Our organization saw it was in Cisco's documentation, and that is how we set it up.
What other advice do I have?
The product is fantastic. It just costs to keep it running. If you have the revenue for it, it is a good product. My current business is small, so we can't use it, as it's too expensive. Though, it would be a good product for a mid-to-large size business,
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