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What do you like best about Huawei Routers?

The technology of huawei is best. I like a lot of command line is very intuitive. in addition, your technology of DWDM with ports 100 to 400 Gbps it is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Huawei Routers?

I think your price is very expensive in comparative with others vendors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Huawei Routers solving and how is that benefiting you?

We had to improve our backbone, obtaining high availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Huawei Routers?

Routers with large-capacity, high-reliability, easy O&M, and low power consumption help enterprises in various industries to quickly achieve digital transformation.

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Routers with large-capacity, high-reliability, easy O&M, and low power consumption help enterprises in various industries to quickly achieve digital transformation.


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Year Founded
1987
HQ Location
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Recent Huawei Routers Reviews

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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Affordable routers with more features"
1. Affordability 2. Easy to configure 3. HedEX guide with all the details for even a beginner 4. Customer Support Service 5. HALP in relevant c...
Benjamin A.
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Benjamin A.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"The most versatile routing solution"
The capacity to adapt to your network, the routers can be adapted especifically for port density, for port capacity to meet your services and IP ...
Rao G.
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Rao G.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"One Of The Best Router for High Performance and scalability"
Huawei router provides High performance and scalability to our network. Huwai routers are easy to configure and handle a massive amount of data.

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What do you like best about Huawei Routers?

1. Affordability

2. Easy to configure

3. HedEX guide with all the details for even a beginner

4. Customer Support Service

5. HALP in relevant countries of Asia Pacific Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Huawei Routers?

1. Durability

2. Power Supply safety

3. security issues

4. Reliability as compared to cisco Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Huawei Routers:

recommended Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Huawei Routers solving and how is that benefiting you?

configuring routing and switching protocols for training purposes and testing purposes.

Deliver hands-on trainings to undergrad and grad students for preparing their certifications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Benjamin A.
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What do you like best about Huawei Routers?

The capacity to adapt to your network, the routers can be adapted especifically for port density, for port capacity to meet your services and IP core network. Best overall bang for your buck. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Huawei Routers?

The licensing can be a little challenging Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Huawei Routers:

The Best overall solution for a network that comprises all the layers of a 4G/5G solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Huawei Routers solving and how is that benefiting you?

Huawei routers can be adapter for any network layer, the NE series for Core, the M2F for distribution and the atn series for access, can give you the flexibility for your network Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rao G.
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What do you like best about Huawei Routers?

Huawei router provides High performance and scalability to our network. Huwai routers are easy to configure and handle a massive amount of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Huawei Routers?

The cost is a little bit more, but It is okay otherwise, nothing to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Huawei Routers:

I highly recommended for medium to large enterprise networks and ISP organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Huawei Routers solving and how is that benefiting you?

In our enterprise, we Use the Huawei router as a core route to improve our network performance and scalability. Huawei routers can handle massive traffic, which enhances our network performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Huawei Routers?

Huawei equipment is increasingly being an excellent option for delivering services to Service providers and medium and large companies.

With the growing need for bandwidth delivery to consumer users, the equipment has to support all this demand and also supports the new technologies that are appearing at an ever greater speed than the development of Hardware.

However, Huawei has managed to please the biggest of these companies because it has made large investments in the development of new technology as an example of 5G which is already a great reality in large urban centers and is coming to take care of this telecommunications market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Huawei Routers?

Before, Huawei sinned a lot because it did not have as much training option so that the market had qualified professionals to meet the demand for this new market. But today we have already found several trainings on Huawei's own elearning platform with several courses in various technology segments and in some cases entitled to a Voucher for those who can pass the exam proposed on the platform itself to take the official exam that can be taken online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Huawei Routers:

Have in your company a router that has high availability, high performance, cost-effective features, state-of-the-art equipment, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Huawei Routers solving and how is that benefiting you?

We offer a wide range of services, including L2VPN, L3VPN, selective Qinq, BGP routing protocol implementation, MPBGP, OSPF, MPLS, etc.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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*This is network enginner We have managed enterprise network which is placed in between multiple cities in Maharashtra, India.

Our company is one of ISP which offers different services like Leaselined, broadband, Bulk bandwidth, etc for corporate companies.

*As an ISP we need routers for a high amount of data handling and routing purposes. for this purpose, we have used in our network Huawei core routers(HUAWEI NE40E-X8 ).

*In our network, we have taken two core routers for connectivity purposes and maintaining redundancy in the network. Huawei X8 routers are high performance and great scalability provided to all users.

*As per my experience,(HUAWEI NE40E-X8) router is one of the best core routers which is handled for approx 400 Gig data overall our WAN network. Our network having approx 150 Gig of load across all cities and we route this load to our uplink provider (TATA).

*Most of the company used these routers as core routers and for IDC used due to this router features is great and practically as good as well.X8 features like

Line-rate forwarding capability, excellent expansibility. It can be deployed at the backbone network.it can also provide comprehensive service for enterprise networks.

*Switching Capacity is very good(6.5 Tbps) as compared to other vendor routers also hardware weight is average we can easily move this router to other locations.

Pros:

1)Enhanced features set availability like VPN, MPLS VPN, Support IPTV etc.

2)High-speed forwarding data capability.

3) As per client requirement, we can provide a high amount of bandwidth up to 400-450 Gig

4)Economically Huawei X8 router is average costly.

5)Efficient OAM features like SDH-like network OAM, IP FPM, TWAMP, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Huawei Routers?

My experience of Huawei Core router is great but some problem in features like Forwarding performance

as per specification, the router is not given proper output in real-time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Huawei Routers:

highly recommend for large enterprise networks and an ISP networks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Huawei Routers solving and how is that benefiting you?

If we have to maintain large enterprise/ISP network We need the big router to handle a high amount of data. HUAWEI NE40E-X8 is the best router to overcome this problem and provide great reachability overall to the network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Huawei Routers?

I like the basics of its operation, and its use in the professional field, they are easy to use with high connectivity performance, with a very good expandability and quickly achieve digital transformation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Huawei Routers?

It can get very hot very quickly, so it would be necessary to add a hardware cooling system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Huawei Routers:

It is a product that is made to meet our needs, dare to use it that the benefits are many Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Huawei Routers solving and how is that benefiting you?

Compared to other providers, this system is much easier to manage and configure, which saves me a lot of time, with totally reliable protocols for the professional and systems area which I manage in my work field. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Huawei Routers?

*I am working as a NOC Engineer in one of "Category B" internet service providers In Maharashtra, India and I have good experience on different vendor routers and all networking devices. Huawei router is one of them.

*Basically for high bandwidth requirements in IP networks, large enterprise Networks, IDCs etc we highly recommended HUWEAI NE40E-X router for Network implementation and optimization.

*For the organization we used Huawei Router series NE40E-X8A for routing data towards destinations. Our organization basically offers leased services to multiple corporate clients and maintained large network by using Huawei routers which are placed between our three locations in Maharashtra (Mumbai, Pune, and Goa)

*We have selected this router due to Huge capacity cluster routers for Internet backbone and also having carrier-grade reliability ensure a robust.out overall traffic in our network is 150 Gig approx and Huawei router should easily handle traffic without any dought. Its range of traffic handling capacity is 400 Gig approx. (NE40E-X8).

*Overall Huawei X8 core router exists all types of features which are really helpful for our large network implementation.

Pros:

Pros:

1)high switching capacity up to approx 6 Tbit/s

2)Large capacity LAN cards included

3)Great Energy-saving design

4)All-Round reliability solution for Network, service level, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Huawei Routers?

* Sometimes making too much noise when high data transmission.

*Need to Add extra temperature cooling system in hardware Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Huawei Routers:

highly recommended for large network implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Huawei Routers solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our organization basically gives enterprise services also like VPN, MPLS VPN, Peering, Bulk bandwidth, etc. For creating a large network over the cloud and connect to the world with a high amount of data routing we are usually preferred Huawei X8 router for better scalability of network, high amount of reliability, and great switching capacity.

*Huawei Core X8 router is economically good to buy as compared to other vendors also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Huawei Routers?

*As a network engineer, We are usually deployed Huawei router for our core node enterprise network handling purpose. As per my experience, it gives powerful service access and aggregation capability and provides different kinds of features like L2-VPN, L3-VPN, etc.

*Speed point of view this routers having line speed forwarding capability up to 2880 Mpps also having great switch speed capacity up to 7 Tbps (practically) and indusrt leading reliability also excellent scalability with output.

*Also Huawei X8 core router provide different kind of services like IP sec, NAT,netStream with minimal configuration parts.

*Aa a Security concern, Huawei router Support keychain to provide authentication functionality to use different services. also, support layer 2 loop detection and Unicast reverse path forwarding its help against an attacker.

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What do you dislike about Huawei Routers?

*the device making too much noise when its active state.

*Also generating a high amount of heat as compared to other vendor routers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Huawei Routers:

must buy this product. it really impacted your business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Huawei Routers solving and how is that benefiting you?

*As compared to other vendors router Huawei router CLI interface is very easy to understand and we can easily configure any type of configuration in the minimal time period.

*Also its help to speed up processing to any task which is performed on the router. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Huawei Routers?

i have used multiple router and finally i got one of the best for routing and managing traffic by different policy. its give best result to me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Huawei Routers?

by the performance their is nothing i found dislike but one disadvantage is "mac telnet" option is not their Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Huawei Routers:

for your core router you can use huawei for robust system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Huawei Routers solving and how is that benefiting you?

we are largely using this router at mumbai as well as pune. we are able to manipulate bandwidth and vlans as we want and giving easy to monitor also Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Huawei Routers?

A router is a device on your network that is connected between all of your home network devices and your Internet Service Provider and huawei produces some of the best routers in that and help routing through different protocols. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Huawei Routers?

Sometimes it is a dynamic router produces network overhead problem and which causes affect on less bandwidth and produces less speed than usual.Initial configurations are required on that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Huawei Routers:

I would recommend every user to use these routers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Huawei Routers solving and how is that benefiting you?

There has been lots of problem that huawei has been solving lately,they are tend to add different configurations and many more things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.