We performed a comparison between Cisco SD-WAN and Meraki 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 reliability is high and we have only had to restart it once or twice over the years."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"The centralized management is the most important feature. We can monitor what is going on at every location in our network with just one center."
"You get security, all of the service you need, and it's easy to deploy."
"Huge companies use SD-WAN. It is largely scalable."
"The solution has great scalability."
"I have found the performance and the Zero-Touch provisioning helpful which makes it easier for us to develop."
"Using SD-WAN to combine services can result in better up time, higher speeds, and much lower costs."
"We have found the scalability to be good."
"The tool is easy to use."
"The solution is very stable."
"The Meraki SD-WAN solution is simple to deploy."
"Zero touch configuration onsite based on the manager system's pre-configuration and the VPN automation set."
"Tech support is willing to go the extra mile to resolve issues."
"The most valuable feature is the single management plane dashboard. Our organization has a global site, we have separated the area, and we have more than five hundred small sites around the world."
"Meraki SD-WAN is a scalable solution because changes are being made to the solution, enabling it to work in different environments."
"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 security features could be improved."
"We need them to start focusing on the SD-WAN compatibility with other environments and not being so vendor locked with Cisco environments."
"Cisco products are a little bit complicated, so making them a little bit easier would be an improvement."
"Technical support could be more helpful and responsive."
"Since Cisco acquired Viptela, the stability of this solution has given problems since it is quite new."
"The technical support is a bit slow."
"The inexpensive Viptela hardware may be replaced with overpriced Cisco routers. This would be a tragic mistake for Cisco as the lightweight commodity platform built by Viptela is the reason to own this solution."
"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."
"A run optimization feature is needed to reduce the bandwidth for any uploaded content."
"The solution is scalable for mid-tier deployments, but not for major ones."
"The security could improve in Meraki SD-WAN."
"I would like to see more flexibility in our choices of customization for our needs."
"The only area for improvement in Meraki SD-WAN is its licensing model, as well as its cost structure."
"The solution could be improved if it added more features, especially monitoring and reporting features."
"It's a matter of cost and expenses that we may take some issue with."
Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 86 reviews while Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 61 reviews. Cisco SD-WAN is rated 8.0, while Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco SD-WAN writes "A solution for integrating services to enhance up-time, performance and lower costs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki SD-WAN writes "Very stable security, great service, and the best for VPN management". Cisco SD-WAN is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, VMware SD-WAN, Juniper Session Smart Router, Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform and Cato SASE Cloud Platform, whereas Meraki SD-WAN is most compared with VMware SD-WAN, Omada Cloud SDN, Cradlepoint NetCloud, Prisma SD-WAN and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform.
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