Question about buying a cisco router

[spivy66]

Guys,

I'm looking to buy two ISR cisco router as my gateway to my ISP. I have a fiber 100mbps service. Basically the ISP is going to supply the pipe and I'm going to setup the router. I say router for redundancy , I'm going to setup HSRP . I was looking at the 2911 because the pps is more then enough for what bandwidth i'm given at 167mbps with 64 byte packet size. I guess my question is, is there another router you can recommend that is cheaper and I can still do HSRP.. I dont need ios cisco firewall or ipsec because it's just acting as a gateway for my users.

Thanks

 

[VinceWhirlwind]

You could compare them with a pair of Juniper SRX 210s, for example, see how different the price and specifications are.

 

[spivy66]

Vince,
Thanks for the response. I'm sorry but when i meant cheaper i was was thinking a cheaper cisco router, like 2851.

 

[iggsterman]

Even 1900 series will be able to do that, and they are not expensive.

 

[VinceWhirlwind]

You could also consider an ASA5505 - they are very cheap.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa80/configuration/guide/failover.html

 

[imbadatthis]

Does it have to be CISCO ? H3C has some nice L3 devices and so does Fortinet (110C, 300 series) should probably be more than enough for you.


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