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 user experience is pretty good."
"The most valuable feature is the application-level routing."
"The availability of services and combining different connections is most valuable."
"Troubleshooting is swift, allowing for fast turnaround times whenever we encounter an issue."
"The solution sufficiently provides ISPs."
"We would recommend this solution to customers looking to implement it on a global scale. We recommend the solution, not only because of the functionality or the technical support, but also because of the delivery of the solution, and the docking and upgrading capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of central management."
"Cisco products are rated to handle the heat and are very rugged, making them a good corporate standard."
"The most valuable feature is application performance monitoring and being able to browse packets dynamically based on priorities."
"As long as the LAN is well structured, installations and setup can be complete within forty-five minutes."
"Meraki SD-WAN is user friendly."
"The Meraki interface is really well driven and very mature."
"We have found the product to be quite scalable."
"Meraki SD-WAN is scalable."
"We have found the scalability to be good."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki SD-WAN is its user-friendly interface."
"Cisco could do more to offer bundling of the SD-WAN and other solutions."
"When you buy the equipment, they should already put it into your cloud account. It should already be set up so that we can manage with vBond. We came across an issue where it wasn't resolved in the DNS. We are using Umbrella, so we need to create a VPN IPSec tunnel to Umbrella to enable the users to browse. I would really like to see an internal built-in firewall so that we don't have to go to Umbrella. This functionality might already be there. We are quite new to this solution, and we are still learning about it."
"If you don't have an in-house design team or outsource to a third party with expertise, the setup will be difficult."
"Simplifying the definition and implementation could add significant value, as it can be complex due to multiple product integrations and customization requirements."
"Cisco SD-WAN could improve the integration with the cloud."
"The solution is expensive and could be cheaper."
"This solution should include a fully functional firewall at no extra charge."
"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"
"The solution lacks a certain amount of functionality and features."
"An area for improvement would be to add 4G bonding and allow Meraki devices to support dual 4G SIM cards."
"The default classes should be expanded."
"People are struggling a little bit with the lead times right now. It’s hard to actually get the hardware."
"There are literally things you cannot do at this point in a graphical user interface that can be done from a command line."
"Warm spare is a good failover solution but Meraki could do something more to handle failovers better."
"When there is an issue, I find it difficult to figure out what is going wrong because the logs do not provide as much information as solutions from HP."
"The VPN client could be improved."
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 61 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 Cato SASE Cloud 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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