We performed a comparison between Cisco SD-WAN and Citrix SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The cloud environment, including cloud security integration, is very valuable because of the many API integrations with the SD-WAN."
"The technical support is very responsive."
"Cisco SD-WAN is a stable solution."
"The solution has great scalability."
"Cisco SD-WAN's best features are the development of network links, application control, and bandwidth monitoring."
"Initial setup is easy."
"The scalability is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features are manageability, scalability, and simplicity."
"It lowered our Internet costs and gave me the flexibility to choose providers based on each location's connectivity."
"The reliability of connectivity is most valuable."
"We are using it widely for the local record for SaaS-based applications. Another valuable feature is a local breakout."
"The SD-WAN solution as it is already is quite feature-rich and the upgrade process is very simple."
"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 solution is brilliant, the way it calculates its paths and trails is great."
"The tool is quite cost-effective because it replaces the need for MPLS, which is a bit expensive...Citrix SD-WAN doesn't need much maintenance."
"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."
"We have had some problems with the licensing model, and it is something that should be improved."
"One area for improvement in Cisco SD-WAN is reporting. The report needs to give more visibility to the customer. The security feature in Cisco SD-WAN also needs improvement, particularly if Cisco wants to challenge other brands, such as Fortinet."
"Cisco SD-WAN could improve on the ease of integration, the configuration should be easier. At the moment the process is more command line based and it would be better if it was able to be done through an interface."
"We recently found some bugs."
"Some configurations or procedures could be more user-friendly. Adding a bandwidth management feature would make Cisco SD-WAN more scalable and less resource-intensive."
"If you don't have an in-house design team or outsource to a third party with expertise, the setup will be difficult."
"Cisco SD-WAN's clustering mechanism needs to be improved. If there are more than five milliseconds of latency time between installations of the VM manager, the cluster automatically breaks down."
"The platform needs to be updated to be more stable and simple."
"The price could be improved, it's an expensive solution."
"Even though the monitoring is pretty good, there is some room for improvement there."
"Overall, network security and next-generation firewall features are areas that they can improve on."
"There are a few things that can be improved, are domain-based routing and the slowness of virtual parts, and it may be due to the wrong configuration, which we have been unable to find out."
"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."
"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 am happy with this product. If anything, its price can be reduced. It is a bit expensive."
Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 2nd in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 39 reviews while Citrix SD-WAN is ranked 9th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 12 reviews. Cisco SD-WAN is rated 8.0, while Citrix SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco SD-WAN writes "The initial setup is complex, and the price is high, but it is scalable and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Citrix SD-WAN writes "Feature rich, easy to implement, and offers a good ROI". Cisco SD-WAN is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform and Cato Networks, whereas Citrix SD-WAN is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Steelhead, Meraki SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN and Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform. See our Cisco SD-WAN vs. Citrix SD-WAN report.
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