We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Cisco SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"When you are sending information to an external email address, Barracuda can warn you when you are trying to access a private or personal email, or trying to upload information and not allow you to do that."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"Its central management, especially when it comes to distributed environments, is great. I can generate and save a setting and then apply that setting across the network with just one click."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"What I like best about this product are the support and the features."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"You get security, all of the service you need, and it's easy to deploy."
"Load balancing is a feature that allows us to take the best of our links and distribute the load intelligently, always with an eye on the end-customer experience."
"Cisco is an industry leader, so customers have a high level of trust with the brand more-so than with some newcomers that might have some more revolutionary solutions, but no name recognition."
"There have been no issues with stability."
"The most valuable features, application awareness, and failover resilience, stand out as key considerations for users."
"Initial setup is easy."
"The most useful feature is centralized telephony."
"The primary advantage we've observed is the simplification of deployment, leading to decreased IT costs and enhanced operational efficiency."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"The biggest issue that I have with this solution is that it is not super intuitive. Once you know what to do, things make sense, but you can't just open the program and start doing things. It would be great if there was a little bit more guided usage inside the program."
"Can be underpowered if you choose to use all available add-on features. Just be careful when sizing your unit. Make sure you take into account what features you will be turning on, and work with your sales rep to get the model that can handle that load."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"We recently found some bugs."
"All of the configurations are based on templates, and we need to spend a lot of time doing the templates. It's good because that means that all of the configurations will be equal in the network. However, we need to spend a lot of time implementing the templates and doing the customizations."
"The process of onboarding the vSmart, vBond, and vManage should be improved to make it easier to manage in general."
"The Cisco way of thinking is to create umbrella-like solutions. I would prefer it if this solution was separate from the entire monstrous Cisco portfolio."
"The security features could be improved."
"We had some issues with Cisco SD-WAN but somehow we troubleshot it and things are going well. The issues have not been a large problem."
"The main issue is that not in the technology, but it comes back comparison. When we do a comparison with other SD WAN solutions, they are priced better."
"Cisco products are a little bit complicated, so making them a little bit easier would be an improvement."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 8th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 35 reviews while Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 86 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Cisco SD-WAN is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco SD-WAN writes "A solution for integrating services to enhance up-time, performance and lower costs". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Cisco SD-WAN is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Juniper Session Smart Router and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Cisco SD-WAN report.
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