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."Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"It is a very stable solution."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"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 encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"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."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"It is very stable."
"The orchestration on the VPN connection between remote locations is a fantastic feature. I used it some time ago."
"It's very easy to manage and monitor the network's health and security using the solution."
"The most valuable features of Cisco SD-WAN are reliability and scalability."
"The reliability is high and we have only had to restart it once or twice over the years."
"When we have had power outages for a few hours we have had no issue with Cisco SD-WAN coming back online and functioning."
"Configuration interfaces are quite easy and intuitive. Being a part of the Cisco environment, Cisco SD-WAN is quite straightforward."
"You can easily scale the product."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"Its interface could be better."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"There should be more security features in the hybrid and on-premise deployments of Cisco SD-WAN. The cloud has most of the security features."
"We don't have any issues with this solution other than the price."
"The initial setup is really complex."
"Cisco products are a little bit complicated, so making them a little bit easier would be an improvement."
"One of the major areas that Cisco can improve on with their SD-WAN offering is their security features. When compared with Fortinet, who have what they call their 'security pillars' (e.g. firewall and security features built-in to their SD-WAN solutions), Cisco generally comes up short. With Cisco, if you need a security component, you have to pay more to get it done. So if they could add more security features that come part and parcel with their existing solutions, then I think Cisco could be very aggressive in the market."
"They should enhance the reporting because, as it is today, they need more executive-level reports."
"Some competitors are much faster in providing out-of-the-box solutions, more innovative solutions. In terms of innovation, in many cases, they're lagging behind."
"What I find should be improved is the possibility of really separating the software layer from the hardware layer since today the current offer is not well adopted by the service providers"
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 12th 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, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Cato SASE Cloud Platform, 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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