We performed a comparison between Big Switch Networks and Meraki 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."
"This product has a simple configuration that can be accessed through a web interface or the API."
"The solution's ability to prioritize traffic is its most valuable feature."
"It's made managing our client's networks extremely easy, regardless of my location. Being able to hop on my cell phone to see what's happening on a client's network makes everything much more manageable."
"The most valuable feature is the single management plane dashboard. Our organization has a global site, we have separated the area, and we have more than five hundred small sites around the world."
"What I found most valuable in Meraki SD-WAN is its simplicity. I also like its manageability."
"The solution is a whole vertical solution, so it doesn't need any other components in order to provide basic features."
"The solution is stable."
"We have found the scalability to be good."
"I think if I was to say something that could be improved, it would be a multi-data center nature of the implementation."
"An area for improvement would be to add 4G bonding and allow Meraki devices to support dual 4G SIM cards."
"The blocklist on the Cisco Meraki side isn't complete or very large. We'd like to see them update and expand this."
"They stopped doing WAN optimization as a feature set, which is lacking. They need to relook at that and consider WAN optimization as an option."
"The tool has challenges with features like multiple-link support, which currently only supports up to three links. Additionally, it doesn't offer router integration, and forward error correction is another missing feature. The scalability of Meraki SD-WAN is good, but there are limitations to the performance of the concentrator devices, especially in larger deployments. While the cloud scale is not an issue, the performance of the devices in branches and data centres is limited."
"The area I think this solution should improve is the pricing."
"The VPN client could be improved."
"The product could be improved by being made more simple to use. We had some issues integrating our MPLS with Meraki SD-WAN."
"I would like to see more functions added to the next release of Meraki SD-WAN."
Big Switch Networks is ranked 5th in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 1 review while Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 61 reviews. Big Switch Networks is rated 9.0, while Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.2. 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 Meraki SD-WAN writes "Very stable security, great service, and the best for VPN management". Big Switch Networks is most compared with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, Ixia Network Packet Brokers, Cisco SD-WAN, APCON and VMware NSX, whereas Meraki SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Omada Cloud SDN, Cradlepoint NetCloud and Prisma SD-WAN.
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