We performed a comparison between Cisco Enterprise Routers and Huawei Enterprise Routers 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."
"Its routers are versatile, reliable, and capable."
"When you set up Cisco, you can forget you have a router. Everything just works."
"Cisco Routers are quite robust. They don't malfunction, and we've had no complaints so far."
"The solution is easy to install."
"The stability is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"I extensively used site-to-site VPNs, access control, etc., linking remote sites to the central location to create a highly distributed organization."
"The routing platform is good."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The product is good, easy to manage , and works fine."
"It's simple to use and offers good connectivity."
"Internet access is a good feature."
"This product uses a non-proprietary command line, which makes it compatible across many different systems."
"The product is easy to improve and deploy in terms of configuration for engineers and technical executives."
"When we started, the connection was amazing for the 100G between the switches and the co-switch. What the students typically use for school is a maximum is 40 so they now have faster technology."
"The scalability is good."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"We'd like to see some better UI."
"The lead times are extremely high. Normally, it's six to eight months initially, and they prolong it to up to one year for new device delivery by Cisco."
"It would be better if Cisco had a User Interface (UI) that we could configure from a web browser. Right now, we only have a Graphical User Interface (GUI). I would like to see a new UI with a dashboard for configuration in the next release."
"The solution needs to offer some security features in a future release."
"Some of our customers have asked that this solution have a 10G connection."
"The product's pricing is an area that is too fuzzy to deal with, in my opinion, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Cisco Enterprise Routers could improve by making their solution more user-friendly. Currently, users need to have extensive knowledge of networking to use them because there is only a command-line interface for the configuration. They should add a graphical interface to allow junior users guidance and more flexibility when doing the configuration."
"I would like to see support for software-defined networking."
"The product’s performance could be better."
"They should include features like IPS for security and response."
"It would be better if the vendor provided support for small enterprises."
"It would be better if local storage management was more flexible, so that unused data could be easily removed."
"The configuration is complex and should be simplified."
"In my country we don't have Huawei technology, we only have Huawei routers for ISP. There is no agent for Huawei in Egypt."
"We have found we have to restart the routers or reconfigured them a lot of the time, this issue should improve. The quality of the hardware needs to be more durable."
"The only problem I see is configuration loss."
Cisco Enterprise Routers is ranked 2nd in Routers with 101 reviews while Huawei Enterprise Routers is ranked 4th in Routers with 24 reviews. Cisco Enterprise Routers is rated 8.6, while Huawei Enterprise Routers is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Enterprise Routers writes "Allows us to configure NAS through Cisco activities and to create GRE channels with different sites". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei Enterprise Routers writes "A stable and easy-to-manage solution with good security and firewalls". Cisco Enterprise Routers is most compared with MikroTik Routers and Switches, Juniper MX Series Routers, HPE Enterprise Routers, OneAccess Enterprise Routers and MikroTik Cloud Router Switch, whereas Huawei Enterprise Routers is most compared with MikroTik Routers and Switches, Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco SD-WAN, Juniper MX Series Routers and MikroTik Cloud Router Switch. See our Cisco Enterprise Routers vs. Huawei Enterprise Routers report.
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