Buying a new Gig WAN Router for Office

[Geetarz]

We are in the process of upgrading our small office internet service to a Gig x Gig connection. With that, I'm also purchasing a wired router to get away from RRAS for a number of reasons. My question is; which router brand/product line is going to give me throughput near the rating of my connection? The device will need to support static VLAN, firewall, and DHCP minimum.
TIA.

 

[abailey]

We are in the process of upgrading our small office internet service to a Gig x Gig connection. With that, I'm also purchasing a wired router to get away from RRAS for a number of reasons. My question is; which router brand/product line is going to give me throughput near the rating of my connection? The device will need to support static VLAN, firewall, and DHCP minimum.
TIA.

You could always go with a Cisco Pro Line router, but for the money I really like the Ubiquiti Edgerouter Pro. If you are trying to do a site to site VPN, you will have to get a pretty expensive firewall to push a Gigabit over VPN (more than a Ubiquiti router or intro pro line Cisco).
On the other side, if your mainly just doing VLAN, DHCP and firewall, a Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite will come close to a Gigabit (depending on what all you have the firewall doing).

 

[Trip]

We could obviously stop this thread at "Cisco/Juniper", but then again you know that already. You might consider Zyxel or similar, who's edge/branch devices main focus is coming in cheap. If UTM is of interest, perhaps one of the firewall vendors (Fortinet, SonicWall, WatchGuard, Sophos, Cyberroam, etc.). Or maybe even a Cisco Meraki?

On the more DIY side of things, besides the UBNT stuff, you may want to look at some Lanner-type hardware running PfSense or other Linux-based networking OS's. The pfs store or Netgate sell units with support bundled in (which is probably a tad more helpful than what you get with the EdgeRouter line -- ie. email and a forum). There's also MikroTik, but again, that's a bit of dry pond when it comes to support. If you can find an MTCNA close by, your mileage may vary...

Hope something in there is of help.