We performed a comparison between Cisco SD-WAN and Juniper Contrail Networking based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Fortinet, Cisco, VMware and others in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions."The best feature of this technology that is available to us is the ability to do better load-balancing."
"The solution has great scalability."
"The product helps to aggregate network links. The tool increases security and makes it possible for you to have remote workers."
"The most valuable features in Cisco SD-WAN are the QoS, AI, and simple interface for users to access."
"It has a very good GUI."
"It is very simple and easy to manage, compared to other methods."
"The most valuable feature is the application-level routing."
"We would recommend this solution to customers looking to implement it on a global scale. We recommend the solution, not only because of the functionality or the technical support, but also because of the delivery of the solution, and the docking and upgrading capabilities."
"Juniper Contrail Networking is a stable solution."
"After we finished setting Contrail up, it seemed stable enough. Still, we never tested it in a real environment, so we don't have enough information to say whether it's stable with a given number of users and appliances. We have tested it in a lab environment, but we haven't tested enough to say that the platform is stable."
"It provides proactive alerting in a single dashboard solution."
"The platform needs to be updated to be more stable and simple."
"The initial setup was not very straightforward, but it gets easier the more deployments you complete."
"The solution is very costly."
"The security features could be improved."
"The solution needs to be more flexible around legacy devices."
"Since most user-data is going through the solution, we are concerned about security, as all the information is in the cloud and not on-premises. The user data authentification should be higher to better prevent malicious attacks."
"Cisco SD-WAN could improve the integration with the cloud."
"An area for improvement lies in enhancing the integration with the security functions of the SD-WAN."
"Visibility, especially for the top of the platform, is a nightmare. The top was documented incorrectly and really complex to complete. In the end, it worked but only after several weeks of work with the support of a Juniper solution engineer in Holland."
"Juniper needs to address the market's specific requirements, such as the SME sector, and offer more lower-priced products like a lower-end segment switch."
"Juniper Contrail Networking is difficult if you do not have a certificate for Juniper. Juniper is a different type of configuration or operation than Cisco."
Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 2nd in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 86 reviews while Juniper Contrail Networking is ranked 3rd in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 3 reviews. Cisco SD-WAN is rated 8.0, while Juniper Contrail Networking is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Cisco SD-WAN writes "A solution for integrating services to enhance up-time, performance and lower costs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper Contrail Networking writes "Smart configuration management eliminates the need to worry about managing the network's configurations". Cisco SD-WAN is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform and Juniper Session Smart Router, whereas Juniper Contrail Networking is most compared with Tungsten Fabric, VMware NSX, VMware SD-WAN, Cisco ACI and Juniper Session Smart Router.
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