We performed a comparison between Big Switch Networks and Cisco SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Juniper, Aviatrix and others in Software Defined Networking (SDN)."What I liked about the solution is the quick and easy way you can build a network data center fabric."
"The cloud environment, including cloud security integration, is very valuable because of the many API integrations with the SD-WAN."
"The most valuable features are manageability, scalability, and simplicity."
"We would recommend this solution to customers looking to implement it on a global scale. We recommend the solution, not only because of the functionality or the technical support, but also because of the delivery of the solution, and the docking and upgrading capabilities."
"The orchestration on the VPN connection between remote locations is a fantastic feature. I used it some time ago."
"The reliability is high and we have only had to restart it once or twice over the years."
"The most valuable features are zero-disk provisioning and link load balancing on an application basis."
"When considering the most valuable features of Cisco SD-WAN, the decoupling of self-monitoring stands out significantly."
"Cisco SD-WAN's most valuable feature is the ease of transition."
"I think if I was to say something that could be improved, it would be a multi-data center nature of the implementation."
"If you don't have an in-house design team or outsource to a third party with expertise, the setup will be difficult."
"There should be more security features in the hybrid and on-premise deployments of Cisco SD-WAN. The cloud has most of the security features."
"They have taken away our ability to do what we are good at, which is working on the CLI, the interface right on the router. They have limited the commands so much that troubleshooting is nearly impossible."
"Cisco SD-WAN could improve on the ease of integration, the configuration should be easier. At the moment the process is more command line based and it would be better if it was able to be done through an interface."
"Cisco products are a little bit complicated, so making them a little bit easier would be an improvement."
"Cisco could do more to offer bundling of the SD-WAN and other solutions."
"The UI has room for improvement."
"The product needs to have more understanding staff in their support team. The tool needs to provide support in every stage of deployment. We did not get the expected support from their team. The product is also not easy to use."
Big Switch Networks is ranked 5th in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 1 review while Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 86 reviews. Big Switch Networks is rated 9.0, while Cisco SD-WAN is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Big Switch Networks writes "A flexible solution that can be integrated with third-party solutions whilst maintaining its automated nature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco SD-WAN writes "A solution for integrating services to enhance up-time, performance and lower costs". Big Switch Networks is most compared with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, Ixia Network Packet Brokers, APCON, VMware NSX and Cumulus Networks, whereas Cisco SD-WAN is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Juniper Session Smart Router and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform.
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