We performed a comparison between Juniper Session Smart Router and Meraki SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about MikroTik, Cisco, Juniper and others in Routers."It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"The solution has good performance."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper Session Smart Router is its unique SDR channel."
"The solution is especially Session's smart, application-aware, AI-based."
"As compared to the other major vendors in the SD-WAN market, such as VeloCloud, Cisco, and others, the tunnel-free and secure vector routing technology is its major USP, which gives plenty of room to discuss with the customer why IPSec from 1998 is a bit outdated."
"In my experience, Meraki is very easy, simple, and clear to set up and use."
"The solution is a whole vertical solution, so it doesn't need any other components in order to provide basic features."
"The product does have a variety of features we can work with."
"The most interesting feature is the amount of information you can get from overseeing the system from a centralized place."
"I like the entire set of features and the analytics."
"The solution's ability to prioritize traffic is its most valuable feature."
"The solution is scalable."
"This is a high availability solution that is easy to configure and has a nice GUI."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"Juniper Session Smart Router could be better in terms of software performance."
"Juniper Session Smart Router can improve the integration for Wi-Fi devices and add additional Sassy deployments."
"The UI of the SSR conductor is the main part where improvements can be done. Today, for every configuration step, you have to do a series of clicks. What we are missing there are wizards. For example, I have two applications, and I want one application to be prioritized against the other. In such a case, a wizard for assigning policies to a service without configuring each step by hand would be very helpful. There should be an overhaul of the GUI of the conductor. The functionality they have got in the Mist portal should be baked into the conductor itself. It would be really great, but as we all know, that won't happen."
"Meraki SD-WAN could improve by adding wireless access time-scheduled and overall capabilities."
"Some systems use some applications with the wrong data application. It bypasses the network, and you need to block that application on Meraki. We first try to put in passwords to do it and the network is not really safe. It's not 100%, the network can be bypassed."
"Perimetral security for new requirements on financial networks and DRP systems, like SAP."
"The adoption of endpoint services or endpoint security should be developed in future releases."
"The integration with other tools must be improved."
"The VPN client could be improved."
"The blocklist on the Cisco Meraki side isn't complete or very large. We'd like to see them update and expand this."
"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."
Juniper Session Smart Router is ranked 9th in Routers with 3 reviews while Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 61 reviews. Juniper Session Smart Router is rated 8.4, while Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Juniper Session Smart Router writes "Tunnel-free and secure vector routing technology is its major USP, and as a partner, we get good support from them". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki SD-WAN writes "Very stable security, great service, and the best for VPN management". Juniper Session Smart Router is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform, Fortinet FortiGate, NFX Series Network Services Platform and Prisma SD-WAN, 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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