We performed a comparison between Meraki SD-WAN and Prisma SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Big Switch Networks, Juniper and others in Software Defined Networking (SDN)."Meraki SD-WAN is a scalable solution because changes are being made to the solution, enabling it to work in different environments."
"The most valuable feature is application performance monitoring and being able to browse packets dynamically based on priorities."
"The most valuable feature for me is the security functionality."
"As long as the LAN is well structured, installations and setup can be complete within forty-five minutes."
"This is a high availability solution that is easy to configure and has a nice GUI."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki SD-WAN is the Auto VPN."
"SD-WAN is a complete enterprise solution for securing traffic."
"The gateway is available on the cloud which allows you access from anywhere and still connects to your home gateway."
"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."
"I like the link monitoring and analytics. These are the features that set Prisma apart from other products. Prisma works well with large, complex networks. One of my clients is a top bank in the United States, and Prisma has performed well for that customer."
"From the main controller, we can administer the customer's devices, QoS, network, and traffic. We can monitor it and we can change and create policies as well as upgrade the software. We can totally control a customer's network from one site, the Prisma SD-WAN portal."
"When it comes to supporting large, complex, network architectures, it's a very simple architecture. The main component is the fabric. It's very easy to troubleshoot if there is an issue happening in the underlying network."
"Prisma SD-WAN is intuitive. We have a better idea of the different tools we can use and jump between the menus quickly."
"It is flexible to use the internet connection via local breakouts without going to data centers."
"Prisma supports all of the applications we're currently using."
"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."
"The security could improve in Meraki SD-WAN."
"With Meraki, it's more of a basic connectivity. It doesn't have all the feature sets that a Cisco SD-WAN solution has. It's limited."
"We have had some problems doing the implementation."
"You need to have internet access to configure the solution. You cannot do it locally, there should be a local option."
"There could be more options for integration between other devices — sort of being able to more easily make everything integrated in one solution."
"The port density should be improved because this solution is limited to two."
"We'd like features that provide more transparency when there are issues. Right now, it's hard to get clarity on problems. We need more visibility."
"I would also like to see improvement in the product training for customers. Palo Alto has not initiated very much training but they have to do so because this is a new product. If you have experience in a legacy environment, and you are moving to Prisma SD-WAN, you don't have a training framework. That is one of the disadvantages."
"Prisma SD-WAN's technical support should be improved."
"Prisma could be a little cheaper."
"We are incorporating their zone-based firewalls. Prisma SD-WAN has limited documentation on how it manipulates traffic, e.g., how it is interacting with TCP and UDP. We recently had some traffic that was black holing. We literally had to do packet captures to see that the new zone-based firewall, which runs on top of Prisma SD-WAN, was causing issues."
"Event correlation and analysis capabilities do not help minimize the number of alarms from a single event. That is the problem. We are getting a lot of incidents, and there is some issue with the correlation. That is still a drawback."
"I'd like to see them move more towards CASB."
"The tool needs to work on price and complexity."
"Sometimes, during the product's initial setup phase, bypass pair or couple ports don't come up normally, and it requires an hour and a half to troubleshoot to reset the box from Prisma SD-WAN to factory default."
Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 60 reviews while Prisma SD-WAN is ranked 7th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 11 reviews. Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.2, while Prisma SD-WAN is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Meraki SD-WAN writes "Very stable security, great service, and the best for VPN management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prisma SD-WAN writes "A stable tool that offers a good uptime and ensures a return on investment". Meraki SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Omada Cloud SDN, Cradlepoint NetCloud and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform, whereas Prisma SD-WAN is most compared with Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform and VMware SD-WAN.
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