We performed a comparison between Cradlepoint NetCloud and Meraki SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of this solution is the automatic failover."
"It is easy to set up and requires a single administrator to maintain it."
"Cradlepoint NetCloud is very stable."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The solution is a whole vertical solution, so it doesn't need any other components in order to provide basic features."
"I like the entire set of features and the analytics."
"The solution is pretty reliable."
"The most valuable features of this solution are load balancing and the security possibilities you have."
"Using Meraki just solves a lot of problems."
"The centralized console manageable from the cloud is one of the advantages."
"The auto VPN feature is important because it automates many tasks, making things simpler and faster. It helps with setting up devices and changing configurations without manual effort."
"The performance of group-based clouds should be enhanced."
"It is missing important settings options."
"In our situation, the initial setup was complex."
"Meraki SD-WAN had trouble prioritizing traffic for VoIP calls."
"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."
"I'm not too familiar with the Meraki environment, but I suppose more automation is always a good thing."
"The blocklist on the Cisco Meraki side isn't complete or very large. We'd like to see them update and expand this."
"You need to have internet access to configure the solution. You cannot do it locally, there should be a local option."
"Warm spare is a good failover solution but Meraki could do something more to handle failovers better."
"Some of the on-premise security features of Meraki SD-WAN are on the cloud and some of my customers do not want to use the cloud. They should have on-premise security features for those that do not want to use the cloud."
"There are literally things you cannot do at this point in a graphical user interface that can be done from a command line."
Cradlepoint NetCloud is ranked 7th in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 3 reviews while Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 61 reviews. Cradlepoint NetCloud is rated 7.0, while Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cradlepoint NetCloud writes "Simple to install and reliable, but technical support should improve their response time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki SD-WAN writes "Very stable security, great service, and the best for VPN management". Cradlepoint NetCloud is most compared with Peplink SpeedFusion, Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN and Abiquo, whereas Meraki SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Omada Cloud SDN, Prisma SD-WAN and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform. See our Cradlepoint NetCloud vs. Meraki SD-WAN report.
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