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Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms vs Dell Virtual Edge Platform comparison

 

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Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms
Ranking in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions
18th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
1
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Dell Virtual Edge Platform
Ranking in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions
28th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
WAN Edge (17th)
 

Featured Reviews

Suraj Krishna - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at Orange
Unified edge routing and security have improved mission‑critical application performance
I do not work with application hosting capability in Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms. Implementing Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms as a gateway does not affect application performance across remote or branch offices. In terms of SD-WAN, I work with FortiGate for security. I'm currently on Fortinet SD-WAN, which is a FortiGate. We also have a third-party IPsec tunnel to form an IPsec tunnel with the third party, including Cisco and Palo Alto, depending upon the third-party devices. Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms is mainly for VPN, and since I work at Orange, where we have different clients, depending upon the requirement of the different customers, if a customer is willing to migrate existing legacy networks to Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms, Fortinet SD-WAN, or Palo Alto SD-WAN, I deal with these SD-WAN technologies including the security part. Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms is a very good product, and with this, we can do so many things, including integrating with the firewall, URL filtering, VPN, IPsec segmentation, and other capabilities. I would rate this product nine out of ten overall.
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What needs improvement with Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms?
For troubleshooting, we are using vManage and ThousandEyes or CLI. We could improve in terms of step-by-step root cause analysis by integrating AI in vManage to assist users, especially remote IT u...
What is your primary use case for Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms?
Major use cases for Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms are primarily for SD-WAN Edge devices, application-aware routing, and it combines routing and security since this is a one-box solution integrated w...
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I do not work with application hosting capability in Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms. Implementing Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms as a gateway does not affect application performance across remote or br...
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