Cisco Enterprise Routing

It depends on your number of sites, cloud usage, and management goals. SD-WAN simplifies multi-site and cloud connectivity; traditional routing may suffice for simpler topologies. We advise based on your environment. As a rough test: if you are opening or changing sites regularly, running more than one transport type per site, or sending most traffic to SaaS rather than to a data center, SD-WAN earns its cost. A handful of stable sites with a single circuit each usually does not need it.

Yes. We design the WAN edge to work with your security posture, whether Cisco or a partner firewall like Fortinet. The decision to make explicitly is where inspection happens (on the router, on a separate firewall behind it, or in a cloud security service), because that choice drives router sizing, the number of devices per branch, and who is on the hook when a site has a problem at two in the morning.

We coordinate staged sourcing and delivery per site to align with your rollout schedule. The realistic constraint is circuit provisioning: new lines at new addresses can take considerably longer than hardware, and they are outside anyone's control once ordered. We sequence sites around circuit delivery dates, and we build and configure the routers so a site can be brought up without sending an engineer to it.

That depends on what you designed, which is why it belongs in the design rather than in the commissioning notes. Dual circuits into one router protect against a circuit failure but not a router failure; dual routers protect against both and cost more. Cellular backup is a good third path because it fails independently of the fixed lines in the street. Whichever you choose, failover should be tested with real traffic on it before you rely on it.

Usually, yes, and it is frequently the sensible order of work: put the new edge in on the circuits you have, prove the design, then change transport where it saves money. Two things are worth checking first: whether the circuits are genuinely diverse or just two services delivered down the same physical route, and whether any contract terms make an early change more expensive than waiting.

We help you select the right support tier and subscription level for how you intend to operate. The questions that decide it are how fast you need a replacement at a remote site, whether someone at that site can swap a device, and which software features you are depending on, because on this platform a substantial part of the capability is subscription-based, so the licensing term is part of the total cost rather than a footnote to it.