Juniper Contrail SD-WAN Reviews

Juniper Contrail SD-WAN offers layer four to seven protection and enhanced visibility. It efficiently manages bandwidth, reducing reliance on MPLS circuits and enabling seamless cloud deployment across AWS and GCP. Users noted its automation simplifies network operations and its security features are robust. Compared to Meraki, it focuses more on user experience and identifies issues clearly. Its automation and routing capabilities assist with complex configurations, appealing to organizations seeking a sophisticated SD-WAN platform.

• "JUNIPER CDWAN ROI is excellent as product has long life cycle and therefore supported with no need to buy replacement products."
• "Juniper has layer four to seven protection; it gives you that level of visibility to understand what's going on between layer four and layer seven and helps us reduce bandwidth compared to competitors' MPLS circuits while providing a strong platform for cloud migration to AWS and GCP without any sort of extra bandwidth from the MPLS circuits."
• "I would appreciate your thoughts about the security capabilities of Juniper Contrail SD-WAN, particularly its built-in features."

Juniper Contrail SD-WAN could benefit from additional features, enhanced UI/UX, and better integration with the Mist cloud service. The on-premises deployment process is more difficult than cloud deployment. Improving the demo dashboard’s ease of use and adding a next-generation firewall are necessary. Training, support, and marketing need enhancements. The cost is considered high, and implementing changes or branches can be challenging with the orchestrator's limitations, requiring configuration resets. Switches in PoC setups present challenges.

• "The solution installs similarly to competitors. It is not more difficult or easier. However, it could be easier and take less time for the installation."
• "The training could be better. When it comes to the demo dashboard capability, I feel like it could be much easier for our customers to use."
• "Implementing new branches or changing existing ones in Juniper Contrail SD-WAN wasn't as straightforward as with other solutions like Meraki SD-WAN, which is almost plug-and-play with its zero-touch provisioning. In Juniper Contrail SD-WAN, it was more challenging."