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TECH BRIEF
TECH BRIEF
Comparing Cisco CSR 1000v Transit to Aviatrix Cloud Network Platform
Feature Aviatrix Cisco CSR 1000v
Platform
Software Cloud Native Traditional from legacy hardware
Deployment System with Central Controller Individual Virtual Devices
Management Interface GUI or Terraform Automation (API) CLI
Multi-Cloud Yes Yes
Route Table Entries Thousands 100, Limited by native CSP constructs
Performance & High-Availability
Active-Active Yes
Only Active-Active for on-prem connection,
but limited to Active-Standby by native CSP
constructs
Detection/Failover Yes Only for Virtual Appliance, Not Tunnel
Cloud Aware Yes No, Manual
Tunnel and Gateway HA Yes, AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Only AWS
Throughput Performance Up to 94 Gbps <1.25 Gbps
Support for Jumbo Frames Yes, up to 9k bytes No
Security
Egress Filtering with FQDN Yes No
Multi-Cloud Network Segmentation Yes Manual
High-Performance Encryption Yes No
Support for NGFW Insertion Yes No
Overlapping IP
Source and Destination NAT Yes Requires Multiple interfaces
Cloud Aware Yes No, manual
Monitoring and Alerting
Built-in Monitoring and Threshold Alerts Yes No
Dynamic Topology Mapping Yes No
Time Series Performance Charts Yes No
Resource Tagging & Clustering Yes No
Data Analytics
Centralized Visibility Yes No
Global Traffic Flow Heat Maps Yes No
Support for 3
rd
-Party Tools Yes No
Maintenance
Centralized Software Update Automated via Controller Manually Updated
Inline upgrade, no restart Yes No
Customization Method Simple Point-n-Click Interface Manual through Lambda code
Troubleshooting
Cloud Diagnostics (FlightPath, AppIQ) Yes No
Packet Capture Yes No
Simple Log Upload Yes No
Cost Optimization
Minimum EC2 Instance Size T2-Micro C4-Large
