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."The solution has good performance."
"It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"The most valuable features of the Cisco Cloud Services Router are the integration with Amazon and Oracle cloud."
"It handles stress very well. We have not reached a point of needing to worry about its capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of the Cisco Cloud Services Router is it can make your migrations smooth. For example, if you want to migrate to the cloud, but you don't want to change the IP. You can extend your VLAN from on-premise to the cloud without having to change the IP."
"It is definitely scalable. It can handle a lot more traffic and group work compared to any other products that I've evaluated. It could easily scale a lot more than what I'm doing right now."
"The routing service for NPLS called Layer 3-IP is fantastic."
"Overall, it is a solid product and a good router."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the SNMP traps that I use to monitor the router and the availability of the network."
"The best part about MikroTik Routers is the price."
"I have found one of the most valuable features to be the hotspot network."
"This equipment is resilient and available at a good price."
"The pricing is very reasonable. It's not too expensive."
"The most valuable feature is its bandwidth management ability."
"It's pretty stable."
"We use the product for VPN."
"MikroTik routers are very user-friendly and easy to manage"
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"A CAPEX/OPEX model, where the pricing model is subscription-based, would give much better flexibility for the customers. The pricing and model for Cisco Cloud Services Router and other Cisco products could be improved."
"You can use this router in a scalable solution but it has its limitations."
"I would like to see better security, where there are more access controls and data confidentiality."
"The configuration is difficult."
"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."
"It is too complex. It is not easy to set up, even with the documentation that they provided. It is a little confusing."
"Cisco Cloud Services Router could improve the GUI."
"There should be a system in place to help existing users make an easier transition to the newer interfaces."
"f they can improve the OpenVPN, to make that a bit more straightforward, that would be ideal."
"The product's setup process could be easier."
"MikroTik Routers and Switches need a firewall policy to secure the network. I also want Mikrotic to add load balancing to the firewall policy, as it's currently hard to do in Mikrotik devices."
"Better security is always better. If they can continue to improve in this area, that would be ideal."
"They can improve the way the user interface is laid out. Their user interface is slightly geeky. There is more than one way to do the same thing in the user interface, and they need to work on that."
"The solution does suffer from freezing and corruption issues."
"Sometimes, when I need to reboot or change software, MikroTik crashes."
"The interface for management could be improved."
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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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