We performed a comparison between Citrix SD-WAN and Fortinet FortiWAN [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about HPE Aruba Networking, Cato Networks, Citrix and others in WAN Optimization."They have a zero downtime failover mechanism, where, when there's a link failure or a link weakness, or bad link conditions, they provide the ability to fail back seamlessly."
"The most valuable feature is security, as it gives me the port bindings that cannot be accomplished using other solutions."
"It allows us to use additional VPNs, offering more options compared to other VPN solutions."
"Downtime for branch offices is now almost zero. We have 100% real-time visibility into all of our lines. MPLS links have been replaced with lower-cost links, saving a larger percentage of line costs. Overall, I see SD-WAN as a must. And the Citrix SD-WAN product has delivered on expectations and exceeded them. (With later firmware updates we now have good firewall capabilities in the product too)."
"The scalability and stability are quite good in general."
"The zero-touch deployment is most valuable for us."
"The SD-WAN solution as it is already is quite feature-rich and the upgrade process is very simple."
"The solution is brilliant, the way it calculates its paths and trails is great."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity."
"The most valuable feature is optimization."
"The reports need to be improved. We need to have them customized but they don't have that right now. I would like for them to have better system predictions. We don't have that right now. My system may be working fine right now but after making some changes, that can change."
"The communication around the life cycle would have been really helpful. The main issue we have had is related to the life cycle because some of the things that we are using were discontinued. They were discontinued within a year after we had purchased it, which is a bit painful. If we had known that, we would've made some other decisions."
"I would like to see support for additional reporting."
"Even though the monitoring is pretty good, there is some room for improvement there."
"Given that Citrix SD-WAN solved all our problems by providing us with everything we needed to unify communications with our branches and data centers, I cannot suggest anything further in terms of improvements."
"I am happy with this product. If anything, its price can be reduced. It is a bit expensive."
"The price is the only thing that could be improved. Citrix is not a cheap solution."
"I would like to see more customization to adjust for the WAN lock-out due to our unexpected power outages."
"Having more documentation would be helpful."
"From a security perspective, FortiWAN needs to be improved."
Earn 20 points
Citrix SD-WAN is ranked 3rd in WAN Optimization with 21 reviews while Fortinet FortiWAN [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in WAN Optimization. Citrix SD-WAN is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiWAN [EOL] is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Citrix SD-WAN writes " A scalable solution for MCN controller but lacks technical supports, upgrades". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiWAN [EOL] writes "Easy to deploy with good connectivity and robustness for managing WAN links". Citrix SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Steelhead, Meraki SD-WAN and Cato SASE Cloud Platform, whereas Fortinet FortiWAN [EOL] is most compared with .
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