"The product's brand recognition is one of the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"There is minimum blind space in this solution."
"It is very stable with very good firmware."
"Using SD-WAN to combine services can result in better up time, higher speeds, and much lower costs."
"Any technical support we needed was great."
"The solution is good to use and easy to handle and manage from the centralized location or from the cloud."
"The solution's application control and application traffic steering tool are its most valuable aspects in terms of how we utilize the product."
"The regular net routing is a good feature."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"Cisco products are a little bit complicated, so making them a little bit easier would be an improvement."
"Its license model needs to be improved. They always make the license model too complex. There are too many license models and too many options. They should have a flexible license model. They can improve a lot of things in terms of scalability, templates, and automation, mainly automation for onboarding a number of sites. If you want some new features, it can take quite a long time. If you want a feature and it is not yet developed, you need to have the support of the business units to have the feature developed. If the feature is not on their roadmap, it can take quite some time before you get the feature."
"When it comes to adding more security features, you need to add more RAM."
"When you buy the equipment, they should already put it into your cloud account. It should already be set up so that we can manage with vBond. We came across an issue where it wasn't resolved in the DNS. We are using Umbrella, so we need to create a VPN IPSec tunnel to Umbrella to enable the users to browse. I would really like to see an internal built-in firewall so that we don't have to go to Umbrella. This functionality might already be there. We are quite new to this solution, and we are still learning about it."
"Some competitors are much faster in providing out-of-the-box solutions, more innovative solutions. In terms of innovation, in many cases, they're lagging behind."
"The solution could be a bit cheaper."
"The solution could have a better web interface to simplify changing configurations."
"The security features could be improved."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 2nd in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 42 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 1st in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 98 reviews. Cisco SD-WAN is rated 7.8, while Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco SD-WAN writes "Stable, cutting-edge, and robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "Stable, easy to set up, and offers good ROI". Cisco SD-WAN is most compared with VMware SD-WAN, Versa FlexVNF, Meraki SD-WAN, Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect and Citrix SD-WAN, whereas Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Cisco ASA Firewall, pfSense, Check Point NGFW, Meraki MX and VMware SD-WAN. See our Cisco SD-WAN vs. Fortinet FortiGate report.
See our list of best Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions vendors and best WAN Edge vendors.
We monitor all Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
