We performed a comparison between Cisco Cloud Services Router and MikroTik Routers and Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Routers solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"The solution has good performance."
"The most important feature is that it is designed for mobile vehicle communication in harsh conditions."
"What's best about Cisco Cloud Services Router is the support. It's excellent, and so far, no significant challenges. Another valuable feature of the product is easy integration with other products."
"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."
"AWS has a reference architecture to enable the Cisco routers in high availability and Transit VPC. This is a very powerful router and can enable us to use Transit VPC in AWS, and this is a very powerful feature that we use."
"This solution is scalable."
"The routing service for NPLS called Layer 3-IP is fantastic."
"The most valuable feature is the SNMP traps that I use to monitor the router and the availability of the network."
"It seems pretty stable. We have never had any issues with it."
"MikroTik offers full enterprise capabilities at a very reasonable price."
"This equipment is resilient and available at a good price."
"It's pretty stable."
"MikroTik routers are very user-friendly and easy to manage"
"It is a stable solution. I have been using the solution for a while, and I don't face any outages or trouble while using the solution."
"This solution is easy to configure and it's very flexible."
"I use the tool to block external attempts."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"Cisco Cloud Services Router could improve the GUI."
"I would like some deployment examples and guides specific to AWS VPCs and how to separate your subnets. Then, how they tie-in with the Internet gateway and any NAT services that we are running on our VPC. This would be extremely helpful."
"I would like to see better security, where there are more access controls and data confidentiality."
"It does the job, but it's not cloud native. It could be even better, like having a single pane of glass and being less expensive."
"If you lose connectivity to the cloud, it is difficult to establish connectivity between hub and spoke."
"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."
"The configuration is difficult."
"You can use this router in a scalable solution but it has its limitations."
"A central management platform would be great."
"The biggest thing that needs improvement is the support."
"Wireless throughput has not kept up with the competition."
"They need to create a license for IBS. I have a lot of clients that have spam on their networks."
"The solution's website isn't that good. When I go to it, I can't find what I'm looking for. However, if I go to a third party's website, I can easily find the information."
"There are limitations to how many users you have simultaneously."
"I don't like the product's performance."
"Improvements could be made in terms of SD-WAN capabilities and zero-touch provisioning."
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Cisco Cloud Services Router is ranked 8th in Routers with 17 reviews while MikroTik Routers and Switches is ranked 1st in Routers with 62 reviews. Cisco Cloud Services Router is rated 8.0, while MikroTik Routers and Switches is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Cloud Services Router writes "Useful for smooth migrations, high availability, and simple deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MikroTik Routers and Switches writes "A cost-effective networking solutions with a robust feature set, but its interface may have a steeper learning curve". Cisco Cloud Services Router is most compared with MikroTik Cloud Router Switch, HPE Enterprise Routers and Huawei Enterprise Routers, whereas MikroTik Routers and Switches is most compared with Cisco Enterprise Routers, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, MikroTik Cloud Router Switch, Aruba Switches and HPE Ethernet Switches. See our Cisco Cloud Services Router vs. MikroTik Routers and Switches report.
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