We performed a comparison between Cradlepoint NetCloud 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."Cradlepoint NetCloud is very stable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the automatic failover."
"It is easy to set up and requires a single administrator to maintain it."
"I have found the dashboard very useful, you can configure all of your devices at the same time by just changing some menus."
"The Meraki interface is really well driven and very mature."
"Meraki SD-WAN is user friendly."
"I like the entire set of features and the analytics."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki SD-WAN is the Auto VPN."
"The Meraki SD-WAN solution is simple to deploy."
"They're known for their ease of use and ubiquitous management platform that covers everything. Meraki really excels in plug-and-play solutions. You just plug it up, and everything works. All of the components—the firewall/router, the switches, the access points, the cameras—work very nicely together, and they all can be managed from one platform. That is probably their biggest selling point. Everything comes in one ubiquitous package, and you don't have to manage different components from different platforms. You can see everything from one platform."
"This product has a simple configuration that can be accessed through a web interface or the API."
"It is missing important settings options."
"In our situation, the initial setup was complex."
"The performance of group-based clouds should be enhanced."
"The solution needs to enact more advanced protections."
"The adoption of endpoint services or endpoint security should be developed in future releases."
"The solution lacks a certain amount of functionality and features."
"The security could improve in Meraki SD-WAN."
"Warm spare is a good failover solution but Meraki could do something more to handle failovers better."
"Scalability could be improved. Yes, you can add more than 300 or 400 sites onto it, but because it's not a true SD-WAN and, effectively, it's just a Multi-VRF, it's all hub and spoke at that point. That's the nature of the design, but that's what keeps it simple to administer. So, it's a trade off."
"I would like improved stability in Meraki SD-WAN."
"It's a matter of cost and expenses that we may take some issue with."
Cradlepoint NetCloud is ranked 7th in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 3 reviews while Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 61 reviews. Cradlepoint NetCloud is rated 7.0, while Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cradlepoint NetCloud writes "Simple to install and reliable, but technical support should improve their response time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki SD-WAN writes "Very stable security, great service, and the best for VPN management". Cradlepoint NetCloud is most compared with Peplink SpeedFusion, Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN and Abiquo, whereas Meraki SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Omada Cloud SDN, Prisma SD-WAN and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform. See our Cradlepoint NetCloud vs. Meraki SD-WAN report.
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