We performed a comparison between Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Citrix SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two WAN Optimization solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's a cloud-based solution that integrates well with everything."
"The scalability is quite good."
"The visibility control and security aspects are amazing."
"The feature that I find to be the most valuable is the bandwidth aggregation."
"The query and the SD-WAN are useful features of the solution."
"We appreciate the optimization and acceleration of the performance of SDP users."
"When I first encountered Cato, I didn't know how to use it, but after a week of training, I could onboard our systems to it, so the solution was easy to learn and navigate."
"It is quite simple and easy to use."
"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)."
"It lowered our Internet costs and gave me the flexibility to choose providers based on each location's connectivity."
"The most valuable feature is its reliability."
"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."
"It allows us to use additional VPNs, offering more options compared to other VPN solutions."
"The main advantage of Citrix SD-WAN is that it enables fast communication between our branches and data centers. And, with its cloud management features, it also makes the process of adding new branches into our company network much easier."
"The best feature is the backup capability, where all of the users' computers are tied into a central data repository."
"The scalability and stability are quite good in general."
"The different languages in the user interface should be enhanced."
"The product may be complex for users with few years of experience."
"The price could be better."
"The solution is not cheap."
"Modifying or incorporating Cato Network to work with a third-party platform, such as Microsoft, or other Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings would be beneficial. Having more integration partners would help the users implement the solution."
"We would like the product to continue to improve its security."
"A little tweaking or improvement of the UI in terms of logging when troubleshooting would be an improvement because it's very detailed."
"The tool needs to be more granular. Its reports are not very in-depth."
"The price is the only thing that could be improved. Citrix is not a cheap solution."
"I would like to either see the price reduced or have it packaged with other products to give better value for the money."
"Citrix should continue to offer a perpetual licensing model because it is very important to us."
"The price could be improved, it's an expensive solution."
"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."
"Citrix SD-WAN does not have the SD-WAN with one optimization in a single license. Other competitors have this option and it should be added to this solution."
"The initial setup could be a bit easier."
"Overall, network security and next-generation firewall features are areas that they can improve on."
Cato SASE Cloud Platform is ranked 2nd in WAN Optimization with 21 reviews while Citrix SD-WAN is ranked 3rd in WAN Optimization with 21 reviews. Cato SASE Cloud Platform is rated 8.8, while Citrix SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cato SASE Cloud Platform writes "Useful remote worker VPN, centralized management, and simple on-boarding process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Citrix SD-WAN writes " A scalable solution for MCN controller but lacks technical supports, upgrades". Cato SASE Cloud Platform is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Cisco SD-WAN, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet FortiGate and VMware SD-WAN, whereas Citrix SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Steelhead, Meraki SD-WAN and VMware SD-WAN. See our Cato SASE Cloud Platform vs. Citrix SD-WAN report.
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