Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms

I continuously demo how the Catalyst 8000 virtual router can deploy easily on our PS451 Server line with multiple Type 1 Hypervisors.

It had enabled the reduction of equipment in our edge nodes as well as increased the functionality and efficiency in the edge networks.

We use the 8000 Series routers on our MPLS and Internet Edge. They provide connectivity to our WAN and connects our locations together.

Well suited in our Office Environments, but not necessarily Industrial Areas

we use them as customer premise router that we manage / terminating MPLS circuits. We use these to connect to transaction processing systems for our customers

as stated before, the only bad thing we have seen is the speed/dupex interoperabilit with customer gear using the gig ethernet ports. a 4331 router will connect fine, but the Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms 8200 will not. it's likely older customer gear that the Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms 8200 has issues connecting? ethernet interfaces stay down//down

We have many challenges to connect our branch offices and manufacture plants over the country.

It's appropriate to use where customers are facing problems with latency and network outage based on carrier problems

We use these catalysts as distributed switches (edge towards the customers in this case)

It's suited well for most applications. However, the price can be a bit too high for some use cases.

Providing site wan connecting over mpls to our data centers

Robust routers for critial site connectivity

The Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms address the growing need for SDN capabilities when we refresh medium sized branch sites.

Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms are good at medium to large sized sites

We utilize Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms for customer site connectivity into our Extranet network utilizing MPLS, internet and dedicated point to point circuits. We use them for building secure connectivity from the customer site into our Extranet core infrastructure utilizing GetVPN, BGP and EIGRP, normally in a redundant connectivity per site via HSRP.

The Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms is extremely well suited for remote site connectivity and for dedicated customer connections.

One of the best products I have used. I'm working on the new merge with Meraki as well, which will add more depth to the products that we are crafting at du. Moreover the Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms gives you all what you need from networking to security and more. It is fantastic.

Scenario of multi branches business that needs to get full networking service

We utilize the routers for SDWAN for branch and data center and autonomous mode for internet edge.
Problems we’ve faced have been with code and hardware bugs of drops with the qfp in the 8500s.
Additional bugs we’ve run into were memory errors on the 8200 platform.
Licensing issues due to HSEC requirements.
Overall product has been mostly stable.

Mostly Scaleable - Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms 8500 series routers work well for higher end needs. 8200 series feel somewhat appropriate for low end, but doesn't quite nail it, feels like we easily need to go to 8300.