Cisco SD-WAN Other Solutions Considered
I evaluated Mushroom Networks, but they did not meet corporate standards. The company may have considered Cradlepoint, Peplink, or Mushroom networks, but they ultimately decided to go with Cisco or Juniper, which are more widely used.
I also have experience with Fortinet and Palo Alto.
I don't really like the solution so I don't position it by design. I only follow up on existing use cases.
View full review »Huawei has their own cloud, and they don't have any dependencies. The best part is that there isn't a lot of tactic latency. Cisco doesn't have that kind of feature. Huawei is more advanced compared to Cisco.
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There are other competitors in the market that work well, such as Fortinet. The best solution is determined by its ability to handle a use case. There is not one overall best solution, there are suitable use cases for the different vendors.
If a customer is looking for a solution for a large enterprise, then I would recommend Cisco SD-WAN. However, if they have a small setup for a small business setup, Fortinet is better. It is integrated well with all the security features.
View full review »There are other options available. Each OEM has its pros and cons. What is acceptable depends on the application use case. Cisco is positioned pretty well in the market as compared to its competitors.
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reviewer1741488
Consulting & Solution Integration at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Some similar SD-WAN products from different vendors are Silver Peak, Steelhead Riverbed, Fortinet, VMware, and VeloCloud. Frankly, I've only been working with Cisco, but Silver Peak seems to be good too—I heard that they're doing well in the market. Otherwise, I know about these products and have seen how they work in webinars and trainings, but I haven't really worked on any products apart from Cisco.
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Arturo Sierra
Senior Engineer at Totalplay
We evaluated the Fortinet solution. We've chosen Cisco over Fortinet as we felt Cisco offered just a bit more in terms of options. It became our solution of choice.
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fdiazm
Senior Product Consultant at Entel Chile
Fortinet is a solution that is a good option that is low-cost and much simpler. Meraki is another good choice for some customers.
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fdiazm
Senior Product Consultant at Entel Chile
We evaluate the competition, however, within the same conditions, we wanted a dedicated equipment solution of bare metal, software, and hardware together plus the underlying layer.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate has a more comfortable UI and better logic than Cisco.
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reviewer1576422
Chief Digital Officer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
What I'm looking for is for companies - and Cisco is among them - able to provide best-of-breed technologies to support both the network implementation side and the cybersecurity side.
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Jonathan Arteaga
Pre-Sale System Engineer SOLA & NOLA at Logicalis Latam
We also evaluated Fortinet FortiGate for our clients. For customers, it is mainly a decision based on pricing and technical options.
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reviewer1584468
Lead BD,Global ICT & transformation at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I've worked with other solutions and therefore have evaluated them a bit.
For example, FatPipe has an easier initial setup. The GUI is very simple, and the platform is highly, highly advanced, even as compared to your Cisco, Versa, or Fortinet options.
What I see in Fortinet is more for firewall extensions, with some software-defined controls. While the functionalities of WAN Optimization, functionalities of a seamless failover are not there. There are some potential technologies that FatPipe has, that are not there in any of these OEMs. On top of that, it's a very simple to use technology for many customers. A lot of our customers have also given this feedback that technically Cisco, Fortinet, et cetera, might be big names, however, FatPipe technically is superior technology today, when it comes to SD-WAN. In terms of FatPipe, they have a single device that has routing, switching, load balancing, WAN optimizer, and FatPipe does full WAN optimization.
Cisco also claims to do WAN Ops. Fortinet also claims to do WAN optimization. What I have found is that Versa doesn't have that feature at all. Versa needs to come up with WAN optimization feature in order to catch up.
Cisco does a basic sliding window and PCP, UDP, which is a basic level of WAN optimization, whereas FatPipe does sliding window TCP, UDP, caching, comparison, data application - all seven or eight techniques are possible.
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Dániel Halmai
Head of IT Network Division at Panorinformatika
I have evaluated Cisco Meraki SD-WAN.
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reviewer1420671
Pre-sales Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We have compared Cisco with all of the vendors such as Fortinet and Talari. I believe that Cisco is the best, overall. It is not the cheapest, but it is the best both technically and support-wise.
With respect to other vendors, they have different strengths. For example, Fortinet is coming from a security background so they have quite a good product with a secure firewall on it. However, they lack some of the SD-WAN functionalities. I believe the routing part is still being done on the CPE, whereas with Cisco, it's done on the orchestrator.
Overall, I don't know how other vendors can compete with Cisco, and that is partly because of the integration that Cisco has with all of its products. It gives them a big edge.
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AthumanJuma
Data Center Engineer at Emerging Communications Limited
Yes SD-WAN offered with VMware
View full review »We are currently conducting a PoC. We did evaluate two solutions, and Cisco was the one chosen for the proof of concept.
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Steve Roy
Senior Director, Network Engineering at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Cisco, Citrix, and Fortinet.
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reviewer1079229
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
A solution we're currently considering right now is Versa.
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reviewer1097490
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I don't know if we evaluated Meraki before going with Cisco SD-WAN. I don't have that much hands-on experience with the other SD-WAN, but I know a bit about the Silver Peak SD-WAN solutions.
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reviewer1572669
Cisco Systems at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
We don't have Sympatico or Versa in my country. We just have Cisco, Juniper, and Fortinet. But Fortinet doesn't have complete distribution, and the switching solution is very weak. We needed a solution that integrates with others, and we think that Cisco helped. Fortinet doesn't have all the switches, and they have some issues with statistics. This is why we chose Cisco.
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reviewer1113966
Director de Arquitecturas at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We didn't look at other options before choosing this solution.
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