We performed a comparison between Juniper Contrail Networking 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."After we finished setting Contrail up, it seemed stable enough. Still, we never tested it in a real environment, so we don't have enough information to say whether it's stable with a given number of users and appliances. We have tested it in a lab environment, but we haven't tested enough to say that the platform is stable."
"Contrail automates the excellent communication between virtual appliances."
"It provides proactive alerting in a single dashboard solution."
"Juniper Contrail Networking is a stable solution."
"The solution has many features available."
"The solution is a whole vertical solution, so it doesn't need any other components in order to provide basic features."
"The dashboard is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The solution is pretty reliable."
"This product contributed to a huge benefit in our bottom line on operational costs."
"This product has a simple configuration that can be accessed through a web interface or the API."
"I'm not directly involved in SD-WAN monitoring and maintenance, but based on what I've heard from our infrastructure team, it's working well."
"t is very stable based on our experience and the application performance has been superb."
"Concerns were raised about the complexity of involving networking components like MX routers, which often required expertise beyond the scope of software engineers. As a result, users encountered challenges in achieving comprehensive understanding and troubleshooting of networking issues within the Contrail environment."
"Juniper needs to address the market's specific requirements, such as the SME sector, and offer more lower-priced products like a lower-end segment switch."
"Juniper Contrail Networking is difficult if you do not have a certificate for Juniper. Juniper is a different type of configuration or operation than Cisco."
"Visibility, especially for the top of the platform, is a nightmare. The top was documented incorrectly and really complex to complete. In the end, it worked but only after several weeks of work with the support of a Juniper solution engineer in Holland."
"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."
"The area I think this solution should improve is the pricing."
"From the vice perspective, they just are not as robust as some of the other vendors. They have limitations in throughput and the number of circuits that they can support on a wide area network. Their higher-end security is all cloud-based. They have some capability with the premise-based solutions, but the higher ends are all cloud-based, and that's via Cisco Umbrella."
"It's a matter of cost and expenses that we may take some issue with."
"Meraki SD-WAN could improve by adding wireless access time-scheduled and overall capabilities."
"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."
"Meraki offers the client basic security, it is not the same as what FortiGate is offering."
"There is still some work to do when it comes to AI."
Juniper Contrail Networking is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 4 reviews while Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 61 reviews. Juniper Contrail Networking is rated 7.4, while Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Juniper Contrail Networking writes "Smart configuration management eliminates the need to worry about managing the network's configurations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki SD-WAN writes "Very stable security, great service, and the best for VPN management". Juniper Contrail Networking is most compared with Tungsten Fabric, VMware NSX, Cisco ACI, Cisco SD-WAN and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform, whereas Meraki SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Omada Cloud SDN, Cradlepoint NetCloud and Aviatrix. See our Juniper Contrail Networking vs. Meraki SD-WAN report.
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