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."Initial setup is easy."
"It is really easy to deploy and use. It is also easy to use for failovers and designing solutions. The rollout is really quick. It is easy to adjust and roll out."
"Encryption, which is native to the solution, is a valuable feature. Also, central management, onboarding of devices, QS, and routing applications are all okay."
"The product helps to aggregate network links. The tool increases security and makes it possible for you to have remote workers."
"The reliability is high and we have only had to restart it once or twice over the years."
"I have found the solution's main features are its ability to be customized, network traffic classification, and has a wide range of features that can be set."
"The segmented traffic it provides is the best in the industry right now."
"The solution provides good consolidation, centralization, and manageability for edge routers."
"Meraki SD-WAN is user friendly."
"The solution is a whole vertical solution, so it doesn't need any other components in order to provide basic features."
"Meraki SD-WAN is a very stable and scalable solution with good technical support."
"Meraki SD-WAN is scalable."
"It's made managing our client's networks extremely easy, regardless of my location. Being able to hop on my cell phone to see what's happening on a client's network makes everything much more manageable."
"Because it's a cloud-based network infrastructure, everything is done in the cloud, so I don't need to be on-site physically to be able to troubleshoot or resolve an issue. I can be anywhere and resolve an issue."
"The most valuable feature is application performance monitoring and being able to browse packets dynamically based on priorities."
"Meraki makes you believe that anything is possible."
"The inexpensive Viptela hardware may be replaced with overpriced Cisco routers. This would be a tragic mistake for Cisco as the lightweight commodity platform built by Viptela is the reason to own this solution."
"This solution could be improved with a simpler implementation process and licensing model."
"If you don't have an in-house design team or outsource to a third party with expertise, the setup will be difficult."
"Some configurations or procedures could be more user-friendly. Adding a bandwidth management feature would make Cisco SD-WAN more scalable and less resource-intensive."
"Cisco SD-WAN doesn't have automation capabilities, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and isn't IOT-based."
"The initial setup is complex and can be improved."
"Some competitors are much faster in providing out-of-the-box solutions, more innovative solutions. In terms of innovation, in many cases, they're lagging behind."
"I would like to see revision cycles to be more stable."
"The interface in the VPN management system can be a bit complex for users to understand."
"The integration with other tools must be improved."
"Meraki is lagging behind in using a single pipe from service providers. That is, it would be good if they could use both the internet leased line and broadband connectivity."
"The solution lacks a certain amount of functionality and features."
"Warm spare is a good failover solution but Meraki could do something more to handle failovers better."
"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."
"This solution can only support up to two WAN ports."
"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."
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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