We performed a comparison between SteelConnect EX Enterprise SD-WAN and VMware 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."The analytics is the most valuable feature because it was very granular and very comprehensive, although a little complicated to use. If you're really interested in knowing what's happening on your network, it's a very good solution. That was the .NET Profiler part of the solution."
"I find the application-aware routing feature to be the most valuable."
"Feature-wise, VMware SD-WAN is a really strong cloud web security product."
"Some of the best features are the SD-WAN platform for VMware and the NSX network virtualization."
"Increases the performance of applications and is easy to deploy."
"Has an optimization feature that acts to ensure the quality of the services running on the overlay to be most valuable."
"VMware SD-WAN is easy-to-use."
"When extra capacity is needed, we can get it very quickly."
"I like VMware SD-WAN's automation and zero-touch provisioning. Its main advantage is simplicity. Anyone can use this gateway."
"The routing scalability needs improvement. We have run into a lot of limitations and also primarily from a routine perspective, things like RSPs line support. It was supportive but not really supportive."
"VeloCloud needs improvement in terms of its security features."
"Better price model would be appreciated."
"The initial setup could be simplified for beginners."
"Its integration with the security systems would be a nice implementation. They can also consider using a management platform for both network and security operations. This would be a great improvement."
"VMware SD-WAN doesn't have the best built-in firewall."
"VMware SD-WAN is complicated to configure."
"VMware SD-WAN could be improved with more automation and more integration, but each vendor could use these improvements."
"The dashboards could be improved."
SteelConnect EX Enterprise SD-WAN is ranked 25th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions while VMware SD-WAN is ranked 4th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 50 reviews. SteelConnect EX Enterprise SD-WAN is rated 7.0, while VMware SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SteelConnect EX Enterprise SD-WAN writes "Analytics feature is very granular and comprehensive, although complicated to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SD-WAN writes "To fully utilize cloud vendors' hardware networking, Microsoft and VMware support everything". SteelConnect EX Enterprise SD-WAN is most compared with Steelhead, whereas VMware SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform.
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