"As compared to the other major vendors in the SD-WAN market, such as VeloCloud, Cisco, and others, the tunnel-free and secure vector routing technology is its major USP, which gives plenty of room to discuss with the customer why IPSec from 1998 is a bit outdated."
"SD-WAN is very stable - once it's deployed, you can just forget about it, it runs by itself."
"You get security, all of the service you need, and it's easy to deploy."
"I like the feature that lets you transfer from old devices to new devices without changing the hardware and subscription."
"The orchestration on the VPN connection between remote locations is a fantastic feature. I used it some time ago."
"If I have to give a neutral view of all the SD-WAN platforms that I have known so far, Cisco is good in routing."
"It's a scalable solution."
"Cisco SD-WAN is a stable solution."
"The solution is good to use and easy to handle and manage from the centralized location or from the cloud."
"We had several clients that were paying $7,500 a month for an MPLS line for one single 10 megabit circuit and we were able to take that from $7,500 a month down to $500 a month for two 10 megabits circuits that added redundancy where before they did not have redundancy and it gave them a much better throughput."
"The file and data reduction capabilities are very good. Without it, we have a great deal of network congestion."
"The most valuable feature is the support for asymmetric lines."
"The UI of the SSR conductor is the main part where improvements can be done. Today, for every configuration step, you have to do a series of clicks. What we are missing there are wizards. For example, I have two applications, and I want one application to be prioritized against the other. In such a case, a wizard for assigning policies to a service without configuring each step by hand would be very helpful. There should be an overhaul of the GUI of the conductor. The functionality they have got in the Mist portal should be baked into the conductor itself. It would be really great, but as we all know, that won't happen."
"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."
"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."
"Cisco could do more to offer bundling of the SD-WAN and other solutions."
"The process of onboarding the vSmart, vBond, and vManage should be improved to make it easier to manage in general."
"We had some issues with Cisco SD-WAN but somehow we troubleshot it and things are going well. The issues have not been a large problem."
"The solution could be more secure. Security is always a priority for us."
"Better pricing and greater security would be nice to see."
"Technical support could be more helpful and responsive."
"The security can be improved, with the firewall for example, because they supply a basic one but not a UTM."
"We would like to have better features for path selection. For example, if we know the network is going to go down then we would like to set up an alternate route for data packets in real-time."
"Their WAN optimization in terms of wireless connectivity doesn't have a very good cellular capability."
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Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 2nd in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 42 reviews while Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect is ranked 8th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 3 reviews. Cisco SD-WAN is rated 8.2, while Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Cisco SD-WAN writes "Stable, cutting-edge, and robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect writes "Has enabled considerable money savings and reduction in traffic ". Cisco SD-WAN is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Versa FlexVNF, VMware SD-WAN, Meraki SD-WAN and Nuage Networks, whereas Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, VMware SD-WAN, Cato Networks, Versa FlexVNF and Prisma SD-WAN. See our Cisco SD-WAN vs. Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect report.
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