We performed a comparison between Juniper Session Smart Router and Meraki SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about MikroTik, Cisco, Juniper and others in Routers."It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"The solution has good performance."
"The solution is especially Session's smart, application-aware, AI-based."
"As compared to the other major vendors in the SD-WAN market, such as VeloCloud, Cisco, and others, the tunnel-free and secure vector routing technology is its major USP, which gives plenty of room to discuss with the customer why IPSec from 1998 is a bit outdated."
"The most valuable feature of Juniper Session Smart Router is its unique SDR channel."
"Meraki SD-WAN is scalable."
"Tech support is willing to go the extra mile to resolve issues."
"I appreciate the cloud-based management feature the most. It's a crucial aspect for me because it allows me to manage the configuration remotely without having to visit the on-premise location. The ability to do this from my home is a major benefit. Additionally, security is good."
"The Meraki SD-WAN solution is simple to deploy."
"If there are multiple network connectivities in an organization, Meraki creates an AutoVPN. It creates a channel automatically."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The dashboard is the solution's most valuable feature."
"In my experience, Meraki is very easy, simple, and clear to set up and use."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"The UI of the SSR conductor is the main part where improvements can be done. Today, for every configuration step, you have to do a series of clicks. What we are missing there are wizards. For example, I have two applications, and I want one application to be prioritized against the other. In such a case, a wizard for assigning policies to a service without configuring each step by hand would be very helpful. There should be an overhaul of the GUI of the conductor. The functionality they have got in the Mist portal should be baked into the conductor itself. It would be really great, but as we all know, that won't happen."
"Juniper Session Smart Router could be better in terms of software performance."
"Juniper Session Smart Router can improve the integration for Wi-Fi devices and add additional Sassy deployments."
"There are literally things you cannot do at this point in a graphical user interface that can be done from a command line."
"The solution is scalable for mid-tier deployments, but not for major ones."
"I would like to see more functions added to the next release of Meraki SD-WAN."
"I would like to see more flexibility in our choices of customization for our needs."
"The blocklist on the Cisco Meraki side isn't complete or very large. We'd like to see them update and expand this."
"You need to have internet access to configure the solution. You cannot do it locally, there should be a local option."
"The solution lacks controllers."
"The default classes should be expanded."
Juniper Session Smart Router is ranked 9th in Routers with 3 reviews while Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 61 reviews. Juniper Session Smart Router is rated 8.4, while Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Juniper Session Smart Router writes "Tunnel-free and secure vector routing technology is its major USP, and as a partner, we get good support from them". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki SD-WAN writes "Very stable security, great service, and the best for VPN management". Juniper Session Smart Router is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform, Fortinet FortiGate, NFX Series Network Services Platform and Prisma SD-WAN, whereas Meraki SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Omada Cloud SDN, Cradlepoint NetCloud and Prisma SD-WAN.
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