cisco 3900 Alternate

[muhammad ismail]

Can i please know if i can go for any alternate of Cisco 3900 routers. As their licensing feature is disturbing.

Thanks in advance

[Leo Laohoo · Accepted solution]

What are you trying to accomplish?

[muhammad ismail]

A router that can provide upto 300mbps of throughput.

[Leo Laohoo]

The 3925E can support more than 300 Mbps, full duplex, full encryption traffic.  Any models below this will not be able to push that amount of traffic.

[muhammad ismail]

can i have any alternate to 3900 series routers. As every new addition requires a new license upgradation.eg, by defualt it comes with IPBASE if i need to install T3 interface, i will have to update to DATA License. For IPSEC VPN i will have to buy security license. Where as 3700 and 3800 etc, donot posses such issues.

[Leo Laohoo]

can i have any alternate to 3900 series routers.

Like I said, the 3925E can support the speed you need.  If you want a cheaper model then the router WILL NOT be able to support your 300 Mbps.

As every new addition requires a new license upgradation.eg, by defualt it comes with IPBASE if i need to install T3 interface, i will have to update to DATA License. For IPSEC VPN i will have to buy security license.

Unfortunately, all the ISR G2 are the same.  (Why do you think Cisco did this?)