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"We pay for the Cisco Customer Care support, which is a couple of hundred dollars."
"80 percent reduction in WAN costs. There are no MPLS or P2P circuits left in the organization."
"Cisco is more expensive than some competing products."
"SD-WAN as a service is probably something in the neighborhood of $100 to $200 a month per location."
"The costs are a bit on the high side."
"It is much cheaper than other solutions. Most of our clients are the top 500 companies, and they all have a corporate contract."
"The license model is too complex with too many flavors and options. You might not be able to see it from an end user's point of view, but from a telco point of view, their license model is too complex. They should have a flexible license model. If you want to have good pricing, you need to buy it for a two-year, four-year, or five-year license immediately. Some other vendors have much more flexible license models."
"It is going to be on a yearly basis. There are no additional costs."
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Cisco is a traditional networking play and has successfully transformed from pure hardware to now software defined products.
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Top Answer: The deployment is quite simple and straightforward.
Top Answer: The pricing is quite high. Cisco is not cheap.
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Deploy software-defined WAN without compromising the application experience.
Dell EMC SD-WAN Solution powered by VMware combines purpose-built
networking appliances from Dell EMC with SD-WAN software from VMware in
an all-in-one solution for WAN modernization. VMware has been named a
leader by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure.*
With simplicity, efficiency, and a full range of flexible support, services and
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Comms Service Provider36%
Transportation Company14%
Real Estate/Law Firm14%
Consumer Goods Company7%
Comms Service Provider40%
Computer Software Company22%
Manufacturing Company4%
Energy/Utilities Company3%
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Small Business45%
Midsize Enterprise16%
Large Enterprise39%
Small Business22%
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Large Enterprise67%
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Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 2nd in SD-WAN with 28 reviews while Dell EMC SD-WAN is ranked 24th in SD-WAN. Cisco SD-WAN is rated 7.8, while Dell EMC SD-WAN is rated 0.0. 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, Cisco SD-WAN is most compared with VMware SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Versa FlexVNF, Meraki SD-WAN and VMware NSX, whereas Dell EMC SD-WAN is most compared with .
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