Review: Top 5 Cisco Routers For Small/Large Businesses (2023)

With such a great wealth of innovation, Cisco is at the top of the networking game. We thought we would look at the top five best Cisco Routers here at Comms Express. Anyone of these great Cisco Routers and routing products can transform your network and deliver high security and reliable service to your campus, data centre, or branch networks.

Here we feature our top 5 Cisco Routers.

Integrated Services Router

The Cisco 2900 series offer unparalleled total cost of ownership savings and network agility through the intelligent integration of market leading security, unified communications, wireless, and application services.

Primary features include:

• Services integration: The Cisco 2900 series ISRs offer increased levels of services integration with voice, video, security, wireless, mobility, and data services, enabling greater efficiencies and cost savings.
• Services on demand: The Cisco Services Ready Engine (SRE) enables a new operational model which allows you to reduce capital expenditures (CapEx) and deploy a variety of application services as needed on a single integrated compute services module.
• High performance with integrated services: The Cisco 2900 series enables deployment in high speed WAN environments with concurrent services enabled up to 75 Mbps. A multigigabit fabric (MGF) enables high-bandwidth module-to-module communication without compromising routing performance.
• Network agility: Designed to address customer business requirements, the Cisco 2900 series modular architecture offers increased capacity and performance as your network needs grow. Modular interfaces offer increased bandwidth, a diversity of connection options, and network resiliency.

Buy Cisco 2951 Integrated Services Router

Wireless-AC VPN Router

Powerful performance and features at an attractive price

Reliable, secure routing is required for any business, regardless of its size. Like all of the routers in the Cisco Small Business RV Series, the RV160W is perfect for the small business, home office, teleworker, retail, office, restaurant, small hospitality, medical/dental, real estate, or small branch deployment.

Primary features include:

• New UI, Intuitive wizards and FindIT support
• Flexible WAN: Ethernet/SFP
• The RV160W is a wireless VPN router, with 2×2 802.11ac wireless
• SFP/Ethernet combination WAN
• 4-port switch
• Dual-core CPU for fast performance
• Business-grade firewall
• Designed and created for the small business

Buy Cisco RV160W Router

Wireless-AC VPN Router

Performance, flexibility, and security

The Cisco® Small Business RV260W VPN router is a high-performance model combining business-class features with performance, security, reliability, and overall value at a great price point. Perfect for the small business, small enterprise, branch, or small home office network.

The RV260W has a dual-core processor that provides performance usually found only in more expensive solutions. A Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) WAN port provides flexible connectivity and investment protection. Like the other models in the portfolio, the RV260 includes standard features such as a business-grade Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall, VPN security (IP Security [IPsec], Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol [PPTP], and OpenVPN), content filtering, and device wizards to make an easy setup even easier.

Primary features include:

• A new user interface. A dual-core CPU. FindIT support
• 3×3 802.11ac Wave 2 wireless
• 8x Gigabit Ethernet ports
• SFP/Ethernet combination WAN
• 8-port switch
• Dual-core CPU for fast performance
• Business-grade firewall
• 1 year of web filtering
• USB model failover
• Purpose-built for the small business

Buy Cisco RV260W Router

VPN Router with PoE

Performance, flexibility, and security

The Cisco® Small Business RV260P VPN router is a high-performance model combining business-class features with performance, security, reliability, and overall value at a great price point. Perfect for the small business, small enterprise, branch, or small home office network.

The RV260P has a dual-core processor that provides performance usually found only in more expensive solutions. A Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) WAN port provides flexible connectivity and investment protection. Like the other models in the portfolio, the RV260P includes standard features such as a business-grade Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall, VPN security (IP Security [IPsec], Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol [PPTP], and OpenVPN), content filtering, and device wizards to make an easy setup even easier.

These models come with one year of web filtering service. This feature provides the ability to categorize different types of websites at different levels, and keeps your business users away from harmful websites.

Primary features include:

• A new user interface. A dual-core CPU. FindIT support
• The RV260P has eight Gigabit Ethernet ports with four ports of PoE and a 60W power budget
• SFP/Ethernet combination WAN
• 8-port switch
• Dual-core CPU for fast performance
• Business-grade firewall
• 1 year of web filtering
• USB model failover
• Purpose-built for the small business

Buy Cisco RV260P Router

Dual WAN Gigabit VPN Router

Connect Your Network Safely and Securely

A small business is constantly exposed to online threats. Cisco’s RV345 security routers give you firewall protection along with high-speed Internet access. They’ll also protect your staff from unwanted content and malicious websites without affecting the online experience.

The Cisco RV345 Dual WAN Gigabit VPN Router is the perfect choice for any small business network that requires performance, security, and reliability.

The RV345 extends the basic capabilities of the Cisco RV routers. Its dynamic web filtering improves business efficiency and security as your network connects to the Internet. Using client and application identification, you can create Internet-access policies for end devices and cloud applications to strengthen security.

Primary features include:

• 2 WAN ports (RJ-45) for load balancing and resiliency
• 16 LAN ports for high-performance connectivity
• 2 USB ports to support a 3G/4G modem or flash drive
• 900 Mbps TCP throughput for improved productivity
• VPN functionality for secure interconnectivity, including standard IPsec, Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) over IPSec, and Cisco IPsec
• Support for the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, ideal for remote access by mobile devices

Buy Cisco RV345 Router

If you require any further information on these or any other Cisco products that we stock, please do not hesitate to contact our team who will be only too happy to help.

Until next time…