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 solution is good to use and easy to handle and manage from the centralized location or from the cloud."
"There is minimum blind space in this solution."
"The most valuable features, application awareness, and failover resilience, stand out as key considerations for users."
"Cisco SD-WAN has separate OMP routing."
"Cisco SD-WAN's most valuable feature is the ease of transition."
"The orchestration on the VPN connection between remote locations is a fantastic feature. I used it some time ago."
"Any technical support we needed was great."
"The most valuable feature is the application-level routing."
"The product does have a variety of features we can work with."
"Meraki SD-WAN is a scalable solution because changes are being made to the solution, enabling it to work in different environments."
"We have found the product to be quite scalable."
"Meraki SD-WAN is stable and the performance is good."
"The features of SD-WAN are very appealing because you have a centralized dashboard and multiple options to terminate. You have an internet leased line, which means that you can connect your broadband and 3G and 4G cellular networks on the same router. This makes it easy for us to manage everything on a single dashboard. That is, you can integrate multiple stacks in such a way that you do not have to maintain any other dashboard. You get single-pane-of-glass accessibility with Meraki."
"Meraki makes you believe that anything is possible."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki SD-WAN is its user-friendly interface."
"The solution is pretty reliable."
"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."
"The whole solution needs to be re-imagined. It's quite complex right now and really needs to be simplified to make it easier for those of us using it. It should offer more simplified management as well."
"The licensing model needs to be improved."
"Cisco SD-WAN could improve the integration with the cloud."
"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."
"It would be very helpful if we had better access to a knowledge base, or online documentation, to help both us and our customers learn to use this solution."
"Cisco SD-WAN could improve on the ease of integration, the configuration should be easier. At the moment the process is more command line based and it would be better if it was able to be done through an interface."
"I'd like to see improvements in the client VPN area. Currently, we use L2TP over IPSec, which, while widely supported, can be buggy on Windows due to Microsoft's implementation, not Meraki's."
"The granularity could be improved."
"The port density should be improved because this solution is limited to two."
"I would like to see more functions added to the next release of Meraki SD-WAN."
"We'd like features that provide more transparency when there are issues. Right now, it's hard to get clarity on problems. We need more visibility."
"We have had some problems doing the implementation."
"Technical support could be more knowledgeable and responsive."
"The solution could be improved if it added more features, especially monitoring and reporting features."
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 60 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 Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN 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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