Comparing Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and Cisco ASA PPS Performance and Cost
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For those interested in the new ISR line from Cisco, the closest match is the CISCO ISR4451-X with a starting price tag around $7,800 and fewer published numbers. Needless to say, it's not price competitive based on the spec sheet.
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Comparing to Meraki is difficult, even though it is more of a direct competitor than most Cisco product lines, but even at $32,000 Meraki doesn't quite keep up with the ERL in basic specs. Meraki publishes very few specs, however, and no PPS for routing performance so we do not know all of the details.
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Here is the link for the EdgeRouter-Lite (ERLite‑3). You were referencing the EdgeRouter (ER-8).
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Ubiquiti just announced a new Edgerouter with 10gbps ports, 80gbps throughput, and 18 million pps.
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@brianlittlejohn said in Comparing Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and Cisco ASA PPS Performance and Cost:
Ubiquiti just announced a new Edgerouter with 10gbps ports, 80gbps throughput, and 18 million pps.
Holy poo!!
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@scottalanmiller said in Comparing Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and Cisco ASA PPS Performance and Cost:
@brianlittlejohn said in Comparing Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and Cisco ASA PPS Performance and Cost:
Ubiquiti just announced a new Edgerouter with 10gbps ports, 80gbps throughput, and 18 million pps.
Holy poo!!
It’s the EdgeRouter Infinity...it has a 16 core processor in it.
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@nerdydad said in Comparing Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and Cisco ASA PPS Performance and Cost:
Here is the link for the EdgeRouter-Lite (ERLite‑3). You were referencing the EdgeRouter (ER-8).
Both are on the page at the link, just scroll down.
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@brianlittlejohn said in Comparing Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and Cisco ASA PPS Performance and Cost:
@scottalanmiller said in Comparing Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and Cisco ASA PPS Performance and Cost:
@brianlittlejohn said in Comparing Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and Cisco ASA PPS Performance and Cost:
Ubiquiti just announced a new Edgerouter with 10gbps ports, 80gbps throughput, and 18 million pps.
Holy poo!!
It’s the EdgeRouter Infinity...it has a 16 core processor in it.
That's crazy. Any word on pricing?
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@scottalanmiller haven’t seen pricing yet
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I can't see it. Only available to beta users still.
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I bet it will be priced around $1000 USD
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@brianlittlejohn said in Comparing Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and Cisco ASA PPS Performance and Cost:
I bet it will be priced around $1000 USD
That's SO cheap for that!!
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@scottalanmiller it’s a guess based on a reddit thread I found, They said in beta it was priced at $500 and in the past beta pricing was half of what retail ended up being.
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Wow! Talk about shaking up the competition.
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Well question about this then. Is the EdgeRouter that your talking about here good for a home lab to learn networking fundamentals from?
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@jmoore said in Comparing Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and Cisco ASA PPS Performance and Cost:
Well question about this then. Is the EdgeRouter that your talking about here good for a home lab to learn networking fundamentals from?
Yep
Even better, until you get into high end stuff, there is really no excusable reason you should see anything else, because it's just to expensive. -
@jmoore said in Comparing Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and Cisco ASA PPS Performance and Cost:
Well question about this then. Is the EdgeRouter that your talking about here good for a home lab to learn networking fundamentals from?
Yes, very much so. The EdgeRouters are running enterprise networking systems and are deployed themselves by many businesses and work in the same manner as most other enterprise networking gear. If your goal is to learn Cisco networking itself, a UBNT device isn't going to be great for that. If your goal is to learn the technologies and techniques, then it is perfect. UBNT works "like" Cisco IOS and Junos and other players in the space (and is effectively identical to Brocade.)
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Ok thanks. My goal is to learn the general side of things until I have a reason to specialize, which i do not at the moment. I am just trying to learn what makes the most sense right now.
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@jmoore said in Comparing Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and Cisco ASA PPS Performance and Cost:
Ok thanks. My goal is to learn the general side of things until I have a reason to specialize, which i do not at the moment. I am just trying to learn what makes the most sense right now.
An EdgeRouter X or Lite are both under $100 and will both let you learn a lot of stuff. Same OS, the ERL is just a little more business class with a console port. I use the ERL at home.
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Biggest issue with the EdgeMax line is that actual throughput suffers with any kind of QoS implemented. How much depends on the type of traffic control policy implemented. This causes people with gigabit internet connections to be unable to get full speed on an ERL. But until those are more common it is not a huge issue.
