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I'd be surprised if anyone let you access their routers, even read only.
You may want to check out https://dn42.eu/ if you're just interested in learning and experimenting a bit more
Install Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) on darkstar and you have a router.
This ain't a Cisco but it feels like a router instead of a bunch of Linux programs.
The same software can be deployed on router hardware at a fraction of Cisco's cost.
Thanks for your wonderful suggestion! I've already looked briefly at:
https://github.com/Azure/SONiC
https://github.com/azure/sonic/wiki
https://github.com/Azure/SONiC/wiki/FAQ
-- "SAI stands for 'Switch Abstraction Interface'. It is a common API that is supported by many switch ASIC vendors. SONiC uses SAI to program the ASIC. This enabled SONiC to work across multiple ASIC platforms naturally." (ASIC is Application Specific Integrated Circuit.)
-- "SONiC is fully open-sourced on GitHub, and distributed under Apache License."
https://github.com/Azure/SONiC/wiki/Supported-Devices-and-Platforms
-- I didn't immediately connect any of the devices on this list with any of the routers being considered by the gentlemen with whom I recently was working towards the free cabinet at HE. If one or more of the listed devices has at least one 10G interface and can hold a full routing table in hardware it might be that such devices would qualify for the HE offer.
https://www.opencompute.org/
I will look some more! Maybe I will be able to put SONIC on Darkstar!
That sure would be fun! 
Thanks again @yoursunny 💖
We will see!
Happily, there are many very kind people! 
Thanks for this excellent suggestion! Another friend uses dn42 and offered to be my first peer! 👍
Are you also on dn42?
Best wishes! 👨💻
A little more on SONiC. In the links that I posted above it wasn't instantly and facially super obvious that there was an implementation for hardware without an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) -- in other words, it wasn't instantly and facially super obvious how to make an ordinary server into a router with SONiC as @yoursunny was suggesting.
However, I did find a page on the SONiC wiki about SONiC on virtual machine for Windows. From this page I found the link to pre-built SONiC VS (Virtual Switch) images.
Next I found what seems like an "advertising blog" page with a simple description of using SONiC's VS images on what could be an ordinary server, computer, or laptop. This blog page includes helpful illustrations as well. Please see SONiC Network OS Configuration: Is It Easy?
Maybe I am going to try SONiC on Darkstar, my server in Dallas. Especially interesting aspects to me are that
SONiC is mostly open source,
It looks like there are both KVM and Docker SONiC VS pre-built images. Plus one also can compile, and
it seems perhaps easy to move from a SONiC VS virtual switch to a real switch with a real ASIC while still running SONiC. For when I eventually get my cabinet at HE.
Of course, I'm also looking at dn42. That's another post. 🔜
Best wishes and kindest regards! 🙌
Do you have a contact or something I could reach them?
Their website is 403 on https://www.aquanx.com/hosting.php , and haven't got any response after mailing [email protected] .
Make an account and make a ticket.
https://user.aquanx.com/clientarea.php
They always respond to my tickets … never tried emailing them directly.