We performed a comparison between Citrix SD-WAN and Meraki SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about HPE Aruba Networking, Cato Networks, Riverbed and others in WAN Optimization."The solution is brilliant, the way it calculates its paths and trails is great."
"The most valuable feature is its reliability."
"They have a zero downtime failover mechanism, where, when there's a link failure or a link weakness, or bad link conditions, they provide the ability to fail back seamlessly."
"The scalability and stability are quite good in general."
"The tool is quite cost-effective because it replaces the need for MPLS, which is a bit expensive...Citrix SD-WAN doesn't need much maintenance."
"It lowered our Internet costs and gave me the flexibility to choose providers based on each location's connectivity."
"Downtime for branch offices is now almost zero. We have 100% real-time visibility into all of our lines. MPLS links have been replaced with lower-cost links, saving a larger percentage of line costs. Overall, I see SD-WAN as a must. And the Citrix SD-WAN product has delivered on expectations and exceeded them. (With later firmware updates we now have good firewall capabilities in the product too)."
"The best feature is the backup capability, where all of the users' computers are tied into a central data repository."
"I have found the dashboard very useful, you can configure all of your devices at the same time by just changing some menus."
"Zero touch configuration onsite based on the manager system's pre-configuration and the VPN automation set."
"The product does have a variety of features we can work with."
"t is very stable based on our experience and the application performance has been superb."
"The solution has a great UI."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki SD-WAN is the Auto VPN."
"The features of SD-WAN are very appealing because you have a centralized dashboard and multiple options to terminate. You have an internet leased line, which means that you can connect your broadband and 3G and 4G cellular networks on the same router. This makes it easy for us to manage everything on a single dashboard. That is, you can integrate multiple stacks in such a way that you do not have to maintain any other dashboard. You get single-pane-of-glass accessibility with Meraki."
"As long as the LAN is well structured, installations and setup can be complete within forty-five minutes."
"Citrix should continue to offer a perpetual licensing model because it is very important to us."
"Enhancements are needed to improve the stability."
"The reports need to be improved. We need to have them customized but they don't have that right now. I would like for them to have better system predictions. We don't have that right now. My system may be working fine right now but after making some changes, that can change."
"I am happy with this product. If anything, its price can be reduced. It is a bit expensive."
"The only improvement for Citrix SD-WAN would be to lower its cost."
"I would like to see support for additional reporting."
"Citrix SD-WAN's knowledge base has a few missing things, so you may need to seek help from support."
"The firewall reporting could be easier to use and filter. (It works well enough, but if I need to give an area for improvement, I think this would be it.). The built-in reporting on the product in this regard is not great."
"It's a matter of cost and expenses that we may take some issue with."
"The solution could be improved if it added more features, especially monitoring and reporting features."
"I'm not too familiar with the Meraki environment, but I suppose more automation is always a good thing."
"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 solution lacks a certain amount of functionality and features."
"When there is an issue, I find it difficult to figure out what is going wrong because the logs do not provide as much information as solutions from HP."
"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."
"People are struggling a little bit with the lead times right now. It’s hard to actually get the hardware."
Citrix SD-WAN is ranked 4th in WAN Optimization with 21 reviews while Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 61 reviews. Citrix SD-WAN is rated 8.2, while Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Citrix SD-WAN writes " A scalable solution for MCN controller but lacks technical supports, upgrades". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki SD-WAN writes "Very stable security, great service, and the best for VPN management". Citrix SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Steelhead, Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform, whereas Meraki SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Omada Cloud SDN, Cradlepoint NetCloud and Nutanix Flow Network Security.
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