We performed a comparison between Cisco SD-WAN and SonicWall SMA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions."Cisco SD-WAN is a very good product."
"The user experience is pretty good."
"This solution can scale from SMB to the enterprise level. It is very impressive."
"The primary advantage we've observed is the simplification of deployment, leading to decreased IT costs and enhanced operational efficiency."
"It is very simple to deploy. It's a point-and-click type of deployment, so it's fairly simple."
"The best feature of this technology that is available to us is the ability to do better load-balancing."
"It is very stable."
"The solution provides good consolidation, centralization, and manageability for edge routers."
"What I like best about SonicWall SMA is the relationship between its features and its price, because the solution is both affordable and functional."
"This solution has many options for remote desktop and access."
"I like the load balancing capability."
"I am very satisfied with the technical support."
"The management and the dashboard are the solution's most valuable features."
"The performance is good."
"It is faster than other security options when using remote connections."
"The solution is reliable and has good overall performance."
"Cisco could do more to offer bundling of the SD-WAN and other solutions."
"The user interface needs improvement. Users should be able to find various features faster without much tweaking."
"The UI has room for improvement."
"I would like them to add some more SD-WAN ports. We have seen one implementation where there were four ISPs. Currently, we have a maximum of two ports for ISP in this device. Therefore, we cannot connect directly, and we need other switches. There should be some option to have more than two ports for SD-WAN."
"Better pricing and greater security would be nice to see."
"Cisco SD-WAN could improve the integration with the cloud."
"The initial setup was not very straightforward, but it gets easier the more deployments you complete."
"It's an expensive solution."
"User interface could be improved."
"The product's technical support services could be improved."
"SonicWall's reporting isn't good. Reports should be part of a data plan. The login mechanism should be improved. It would be helpful if the client could use an agent to log in. An agent-server model would improve the performance of the RDB, which consumes a lot of bandwidth."
"The solution has 2FA, it will generate a token and send it to an email, but multifactor authentication is not available. I would suggest that there should be MFA integration and provided with the appliance."
"SonicWall SMA is difficult to use and it does not provide easy access to different parts of the network."
"Enhancing live tracking capabilities could improve the product, particularly in monitoring user activity and request statuses in real-time on the web interface."
"The solution could integrate better with other platforms."
"The product itself is very good, but Dell needs to work on product visibility in their advertising."
Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 86 reviews while SonicWall SMA is ranked 2nd in Universal Access Gateways with 14 reviews. Cisco SD-WAN is rated 8.0, while SonicWall SMA is rated 8.2. 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 SonicWall SMA writes "It allows us to provide CML-based access to any user, but the reporting could be better". Cisco SD-WAN is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Juniper Session Smart Router and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform, whereas SonicWall SMA is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, SonicWall Netextender, Peplink SpeedFusion, Ivanti Connect Secure and Check Point Remote Access VPN.
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