A couple of days ago, I was deploying a Cyberoam unit at a customer's site.We were replacing a Cisco Router with a Cyberoam unit. Customer was overall happy with the Cyberoam, however, He was unsure about QoS feature. The primary reason to replace a Cisco router with Cyberoam was to get a better performance in terms of security, since Cisco router was already being used as a Zone based firewall, the overall performance was not up to the mark.
Besides, configuring a Cisco router is a tedious task as compared with the Cyberoam.
However, as said customer was little suspicious about QoS, since he had 50 VoIP phones in the network. Let me tell you about Cisco QoS, It uses a very granular and efficient QoS feature/module. Cisco calls its QoS as MQC (modular QoS CLI) where in as the whole configuration of configuring class maps, policy maps and applying them to the services or interfaces is done through some specific CLI commands. The disadvantage here is that you really have to be a cisco CLI master in order to do the configuration, otherwise you are in the dock. On the other hand, Cyberoam is very easy to configure and play with and you dont have to be Cyberoam or security master to configure the things.
Cyberoam gives you complete control over the kind of traffic policing and control one would like to have over the applications and most importantly the users, which is missing in Cisco routers. In Cyberoam you have the control or power to prioritize or police the bandwidth for a web category or for a desired group of websites or URLs which is again not available with the Cisco router.
Besides, configuring a Cisco router is a tedious task as compared with the Cyberoam.
However, as said customer was little suspicious about QoS, since he had 50 VoIP phones in the network. Let me tell you about Cisco QoS, It uses a very granular and efficient QoS feature/module. Cisco calls its QoS as MQC (modular QoS CLI) where in as the whole configuration of configuring class maps, policy maps and applying them to the services or interfaces is done through some specific CLI commands. The disadvantage here is that you really have to be a cisco CLI master in order to do the configuration, otherwise you are in the dock. On the other hand, Cyberoam is very easy to configure and play with and you dont have to be Cyberoam or security master to configure the things.
Cyberoam gives you complete control over the kind of traffic policing and control one would like to have over the applications and most importantly the users, which is missing in Cisco routers. In Cyberoam you have the control or power to prioritize or police the bandwidth for a web category or for a desired group of websites or URLs which is again not available with the Cisco router.
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