"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technology is its major USP, which gives plenty of room to discuss with the customer why IPSec from 1998 is a bit outdated."
"Cisco SD-WAN's collaborative features are unique and sustainable. I also like the protocols, which use two SD-WAN."
"It is very simple and easy to manage, compared to other methods."
"The scalability is the most valuable feature."
"When we have had power outages for a few hours we have had no issue with Cisco SD-WAN coming back online and functioning."
"Load balancing is a feature that allows us to take the best of our links and distribute the load intelligently, always with an eye on the end-customer experience."
"The initial setup is quite simple."
"It's a scalable solution."
"You can easily scale the product."
"If one circuit crashes, we are able to switch to a second circuit without any disruption in connection."
"I have found the dynamic multipoint protocol(DNPO) most useful because it can tell you which is the best circuit to use for different types of traffic."
"Has an optimization feature that acts to ensure the quality of the services running on the overlay to be most valuable."
"The service they provide is very stable and is the main influencer of why customers purchase this solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is manageability."
"The most valuable feature is the dynamic multipath optimization."
"There are 400 functionalities of the system."
"Increases the performance of applications and is easy to deploy."
"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."
"The solution could be more secure. Security is always a priority for us."
"There should be more security features in the hybrid and on-premise deployments of Cisco SD-WAN. The cloud has most of the security features."
"The initial setup is really complex."
"The initial setup was not very straightforward, but it gets easier the more deployments you complete."
"When it comes to adding more security features, you need to add more RAM."
"This solution could be improved with a simpler implementation process and licensing model."
"The platform needs to be updated to be more stable and simple."
"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."
"There is no security included, which is something that should be improved."
"VMware SD-WAN could be improved with more automation and more integration, but each vendor could use these improvements."
"I would like for them to upgrade to 5G integration. Our customers have 4G now and the connectivity isn't good. It should be much faster."
"They need more gateways"
"The initial setup could be simplified for beginners."
"In the future, we would like to have more capacity using this solution as there are limitations on the VCE. For example, only 50 tunnels can be supported currently but we would like to have 200 tunnels using the VeloCloud VCE device."
"Some of the service providers that use VeloCloud as their SD-WAN should be enabled to have better global visibility."
"Security is a challenge. I would like to see VMware add things like IPS, IDS, and web filtering. These features are the future of security, and most competing firewalls have them."
Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 2nd in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 43 reviews while VMware SD-WAN is ranked 3rd in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 24 reviews. Cisco SD-WAN is rated 8.0, while VMware SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco SD-WAN writes "Stable, cutting-edge, and robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SD-WAN writes "Scalable, has DMPO to ensure data integrity, good technical support, and zero-touch set up". Cisco SD-WAN is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Versa FlexVNF, Meraki SD-WAN, Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect and Nuage Networks, whereas VMware SD-WAN is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Versa FlexVNF and Zscaler SASE. See our Cisco SD-WAN vs. VMware SD-WAN report.
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