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."Cisco SD-WAN has separate OMP routing."
"You can easily scale the product."
"Cisco SD-WAN is a highly stable solution."
"It's very easy to manage and monitor the network's health and security using the solution."
"The availability of services and combining different connections is most valuable."
"The primary advantage we've observed is the simplification of deployment, leading to decreased IT costs and enhanced operational efficiency."
"Cisco SD-WAN is a very good product."
"The integration of Layer 3 and application routing is great."
"I appreciate the cloud-based management feature the most. It's a crucial aspect for me because it allows me to manage the configuration remotely without having to visit the on-premise location. The ability to do this from my home is a major benefit. Additionally, security is good."
"As long as the LAN is well structured, installations and setup can be complete within forty-five minutes."
"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."
"Tech support is willing to go the extra mile to resolve issues."
"The solution is a whole vertical solution, so it doesn't need any other components in order to provide basic features."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is application performance monitoring and being able to browse packets dynamically based on priorities."
"A lot of our customers really enjoy the Meraki Dashboard."
"Since most user-data is going through the solution, we are concerned about security, as all the information is in the cloud and not on-premises. The user data authentification should be higher to better prevent malicious attacks."
"Cisco could do more to offer bundling of the SD-WAN and other solutions."
"They have taken away our ability to do what we are good at, which is working on the CLI, the interface right on the router. They have limited the commands so much that troubleshooting is nearly impossible."
"Its license model needs to be improved. They always make the license model too complex. There are too many license models and too many options. They should have a flexible license model. They can improve a lot of things in terms of scalability, templates, and automation, mainly automation for onboarding a number of sites. If you want some new features, it can take quite a long time. If you want a feature and it is not yet developed, you need to have the support of the business units to have the feature developed. If the feature is not on their roadmap, it can take quite some time before you get the feature."
"Technical support could be more helpful and responsive."
"The solution is very costly."
"When it comes to adding more security features, you need to add more RAM."
"We need them to start focusing on the SD-WAN compatibility with other environments and not being so vendor locked with Cisco environments."
"The solution needs to enact more advanced protections."
"Meraki is more or less intelligent load balancing, although a lot of features are missing that our SD-WAN solutions will have."
"The granularity could be improved."
"I would like improved stability in Meraki SD-WAN."
"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."
"Technical support could be more knowledgeable and responsive."
"We have a lot of problems with distribution. The late deliveries likely have to do with the time it takes for the fabrication of components. It is a principal problem at this moment."
"Overall, we are satisfied with the support, although I cannot state this unequivocally."
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 60 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 Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN 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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