Cisco CISCO881-K9 880 Series Ethernet Router

Product Review

The Cisco 881 Ethernet Security Router offers concurrent broadband services over 3G1, Metro Ethernet, and multiple types of DSL and provides business continuity.The Cisco 881 Ethernet Security Router provides the performance required for concurrent services, including firewall, intrusion prevention, content filtering, and encryption for VPNs and quality of service (QoS) features for optimizing voice and video applications. In addition, Cisco Configuration Professional is a Web-based configuration tool that simplifies setup and deployment. Centralized management capabilities give network managers visibility and control of the network configurations at the remote site.

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review

(3 customer reviews)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

Does what it is designed to do, June 4, 2011

Mark Moreau - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)

This review is from: Cisco CISCO881-K9 880 Series Ethernet Router (Personal Computers)

I am very happy with this product, we are using these to create VPN remote offices. i have to say Cisco support is just awesome; if you have any issue you can call them and they will help until it is working for you. awesome product!

Not recommended for any home networking as it is much more powerful that the needs at a consumer level and as such requires command prompt style knowledge of how to configure.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful

Don't Buy A Cisco Router From Amazon, July 15, 2009

J. Milligan - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cisco CISCO881-K9 880 Series Ethernet Router (Personal Computers)

We bought this unit and encountered a firmware bug with it right out
of the box. The unit had to be rebooted every 24 hours to prevent it
from crashing. We have a very simple configuration, so it's hard to
imagine how this could happen.

Cisco identified an IOS bug and sent us a link to new firmware.
However, we were unable to download the new firmware because the
service contract on the router was in Amazon's name instead of our
name. Amazon was unable to assign the service contract to us, so we
had no choice but returning the router.

Overall, a very poor experience with both Cisco and Amazon.

4 of 9 people found the following review helpful

No Software and No Documentation plus defective, August 29, 2008

Charles M. Smith "SD Numa" (Debary, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cisco CISCO881-K9 880 Series Ethernet Router (Personal Computers)

If getting a network device without software and documentation makes sense to you then this is the router for you. I had to open 4 service calls on this router just to get the software for this router. After two weeks Cisco determine the Wan port was bad. Spent several whole days with Cisco on the phone. Worst experence ever with a product. Cisco support seems to know very little about this router. FYI The 881 is not SDM compatible. Plus the 881 has larger form factor then the 871. If you are lonely and need someone to talk to buy this router.