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."The solution has good performance."
"It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"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technology is its major USP, which gives plenty of room to discuss with the customer why IPSec from 1998 is a bit outdated."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."
"I have found the dashboard very useful, you can configure all of your devices at the same time by just changing some menus."
"The most valuable feature is application awareness."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution has many features available."
"The auto VPN feature is important because it automates many tasks, making things simpler and faster. It helps with setting up devices and changing configurations without manual effort."
"The dashboard is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The centralized console manageable from the cloud is one of the advantages."
"t is very stable based on our experience and the application performance has been superb."
"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."
"Warm spare is a good failover solution but Meraki could do something more to handle failovers better."
"The solution lacks a certain amount of functionality and features."
"Meraki SD-WAN could improve on the lead time, but this is not a problem only with Cisco. there's a global shortage of chipsets. Additionally, the solution has limited features. It's quite a standard product and not very easily upgradeable or stackable."
"With Meraki, it's more of a basic connectivity. It doesn't have all the feature sets that a Cisco SD-WAN solution has. It's limited."
"It should be easier to install BGP and it should have a better backup."
"Some of the on-premise security features of Meraki SD-WAN are on the cloud and some of my customers do not want to use the cloud. They should have on-premise security features for those that do not want to use the cloud."
"Perimetral security for new requirements on financial networks and DRP systems, like SAP."
"They stopped doing WAN optimization as a feature set, which is lacking. They need to relook at that and consider WAN optimization as an option."
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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