We performed a comparison between Cisco SD-WAN and Huawei Enterprise Routers based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two WAN Edge solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like creating policies. This way, we can better utilize our WAN circuit and get better rates. Its GUI is user-friendly, and the CLI is also great."
"Load balancing is a feature that allows us to take the best of our links and distribute the load intelligently, always with an eye on the end-customer experience."
"The regular net routing is a good feature."
"The primary advantage we've observed is the simplification of deployment, leading to decreased IT costs and enhanced operational efficiency."
"The cloud environment, including cloud security integration, is very valuable because of the many API integrations with the SD-WAN."
"The most valuable features are manageability, scalability, and simplicity."
"The most useful feature for our organization is the combination of on-prem and cloud-based deployments. We connect securely to our hybrid cloud using transit VPCs and cloud on-ramp for fast deployments."
"It is very simple to deploy. It's a point-and-click type of deployment, so it's fairly simple."
"It's simple to use and offers good connectivity."
"The product is good, easy to manage , and works fine."
"The product is easy to improve and deploy in terms of configuration for engineers and technical executives."
"Overall we have found the solution to be satisfactory."
"The solution offers good customer support and good performance."
"There is a lot of information available about routers and how to configure Huawei Routers right now."
"The setup is simple."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei Enterprise Routers is if have two networks at different geographical locations with a great deal of distance they work together as if they are on the same cloud network."
"In the next release, Cisco should focus on simplifying the configuration of SD-WAN. SD-WAN has a lot of room to grow."
"The deployment is complex."
"Since Cisco acquired Viptela, the stability of this solution has given problems since it is quite new."
"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."
"There should be more security features in the hybrid and on-premise deployments of Cisco SD-WAN. The cloud has most of the security features."
"If you don't have an in-house design team or outsource to a third party with expertise, the setup will be difficult."
"Cisco SD-WAN doesn't have automation capabilities, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and isn't IOT-based."
"Cisco could do more to offer bundling of the SD-WAN and other solutions."
"The product’s performance could be better."
"Essentially, they need to open their licensing model such that when a customer buys a device, they have a full view of all of the available licenses for it."
"The internet speed reduces throughout the day. The tool is not stable."
"There isn't really any scalability potential."
"Huawei Enterprise Routers can improve by enhancing their security. The software architecture and the operating system that runs on their router and the security capability are not as strong when compared to Cisco."
"There is not much of a technical team for Huawei available in Pakistan as compared to Cisco with respect to very complex networks."
"We'd like the product to be more flexible so that we could more easily manipulate some of the features."
"The configuration is complex and should be simplified."
Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 2nd in WAN Edge with 86 reviews while Huawei Enterprise Routers is ranked 8th in WAN Edge with 23 reviews. Cisco SD-WAN is rated 8.0, while Huawei Enterprise Routers is rated 7.8. 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 Huawei Enterprise Routers writes "A stable and easy-to-manage solution with good security and firewalls". Cisco SD-WAN is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform and Mist WAN Assurance, whereas Huawei Enterprise Routers is most compared with MikroTik Routers and Switches, Cisco Enterprise Routers, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper MX Series Routers and MikroTik Cloud Router Switch. See our Cisco SD-WAN vs. Huawei Enterprise Routers report.
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