We performed a comparison between Cisco SD-WAN and Meraki SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions."Cisco products are rated to handle the heat and are very rugged, making them a good corporate standard."
"The initial setup is straightforward and easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature is the application-level routing."
"The most valuable features of Cisco SD-WAN include the DIA and its integration with Cisco Umbrella for DNS security."
"The scalability is the most valuable feature."
"Cisco SD-WAN's best features are the development of network links, application control, and bandwidth monitoring."
"You can easily scale the product."
"Cisco SD-WAN is a good product."
"The most valuable feature is the firewall capability. It's also got a very good graphical user interface and is very easy to manage."
"The most interesting feature is the amount of information you can get from overseeing the system from a centralized place."
"Meraki SD-WAN is a scalable solution because changes are being made to the solution, enabling it to work in different environments."
"The solution's ability to prioritize traffic is its most valuable feature."
"The solution is pretty easy to configure."
"This product contributed to a huge benefit in our bottom line on operational costs."
"The tool is easy to use."
"The solution is pretty reliable."
"Compresson deduplication should be added."
"Its license model needs to be improved. They always make the license model too complex. There are too many license models and too many options. They should have a flexible license model. They can improve a lot of things in terms of scalability, templates, and automation, mainly automation for onboarding a number of sites. If you want some new features, it can take quite a long time. If you want a feature and it is not yet developed, you need to have the support of the business units to have the feature developed. If the feature is not on their roadmap, it can take quite some time before you get the feature."
"The whole solution needs to be re-imagined. It's quite complex right now and really needs to be simplified to make it easier for those of us using it. It should offer more simplified management as well."
"Cisco's router and voice gateway has not been available since the launch of SD-WAN."
"All of the configurations are based on templates, and we need to spend a lot of time doing the templates. It's good because that means that all of the configurations will be equal in the network. However, we need to spend a lot of time implementing the templates and doing the customizations."
"The initial setup is really complex."
"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."
"Cisco could do more to offer bundling of the SD-WAN and other solutions."
"Meraki is lagging behind in using a single pipe from service providers. That is, it would be good if they could use both the internet leased line and broadband connectivity."
"This vendor has issues with the supply chain that need to be improved."
"The solution lacks a certain amount of functionality and features."
"The security and upgrading could improve in this solution."
"The VPN client could be improved."
"We have a lot of problems with distribution. The late deliveries likely have to do with the time it takes for the fabrication of components. It is a principal problem at this moment."
"Meraki SD-WAN could improve on the lead time, but this is not a problem only with Cisco. there's a global shortage of chipsets. Additionally, the solution has limited features. It's quite a standard product and not very easily upgradeable or stackable."
"Meraki is more or less intelligent load balancing, although a lot of features are missing that our SD-WAN solutions will have."
Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 86 reviews while Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 61 reviews. Cisco SD-WAN is rated 8.0, while Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco SD-WAN writes "A solution for integrating services to enhance up-time, performance and lower costs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki SD-WAN writes "Very stable security, great service, and the best for VPN management". Cisco SD-WAN is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, VMware SD-WAN, Juniper Session Smart Router, Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform and Cato SASE Cloud Platform, whereas Meraki SD-WAN is most compared with VMware SD-WAN, Omada Cloud SDN, Cradlepoint NetCloud, Prisma SD-WAN and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform.
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