We performed a comparison between Aruba Orchestrator 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 product has reduced OpEx expenditure."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"The most valuable feature is optimization."
"The Business Intent Overlay is a great feature."
"We had to deal with separate management models for Wi-Fi and switches. With Aruba Orchestrator, it's now a unified solution, making things much easier for us. We log in and manage everything from a single console. It provides complete internal visibility from LAN to Wi-Fi, resulting in higher stability and easier troubleshooting. The management process is much quicker and more streamlined."
"The most important feature is WAN optimization."
"Aruba Orchestrator has notably reduced enrollment setup times from several hours to within an hour if prepared and planned."
"It is very stable with very good firmware."
"Cisco SD-WAN is a stable solution."
"The solution has great scalability."
"It's a scalable solution."
"It has a very good GUI."
"The product helps to aggregate network links. The tool increases security and makes it possible for you to have remote workers."
"The best feature of this technology that is available to us is the ability to do better load-balancing."
"The solution is good to use and easy to handle and manage from the centralized location or from the cloud."
"Aruba Orchestrator should implement dynamic certificate changes for security."
"The solution can be improved by lowering the cost and making it more user-friendly for first-time users."
"The initial setup is complex, depending on the overall planning for the entire environment."
"The solution lacks sufficient security features."
"They could provide essential training to understand the product functionality."
"The management menu should be simplified."
"When it comes to adding more security features, you need to add more RAM."
"Customers require features that are secure for endpoints, on-premises, and for the cloud."
"The solution is expensive and could be cheaper."
"If you don't have an in-house design team or outsource to a third party with expertise, the setup will be difficult."
"The product's application delivery feature needs improvement."
"Since Cisco acquired Viptela, the stability of this solution has given problems since it is quite new."
"They have taken away our ability to do what we are good at, which is working on the CLI, the interface right on the router. They have limited the commands so much that troubleshooting is nearly impossible."
"It's an expensive solution."
Aruba Orchestrator is ranked 13th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 7 reviews while Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 86 reviews. Aruba Orchestrator is rated 8.6, while Cisco SD-WAN is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Aruba Orchestrator writes "Provides complete internal visibility from LAN to Wi-Fi, resulting in higher stability and easier troubleshooting". 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". Aruba Orchestrator is most compared with Juniper Session Smart Router and VMware SD-WAN, 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 Aruba Orchestrator vs. Cisco SD-WAN report.
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