"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technology is its major USP, which gives plenty of room to discuss with the customer why IPSec from 1998 is a bit outdated."
"The most valuable features are zero-disk provisioning and link load balancing on an application basis."
"Configuration interfaces are quite easy and intuitive. Being a part of the Cisco environment, Cisco SD-WAN is quite straightforward."
"SD-WAN is very stable - once it's deployed, you can just forget about it, it runs by itself."
"Huge companies use SD-WAN. It is largely scalable."
"I have found the solution's main features are its ability to be customized, network traffic classification, and has a wide range of features that can be set."
"Cisco SD-WAN's best features are the development of network links, application control, and bandwidth monitoring."
"The integration of Layer 3 and application routing is great."
"Cisco SD-WAN is a good product."
"VMware SD-WAN is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is manageability."
"Has an optimization feature that acts to ensure the quality of the services running on the overlay to be most valuable."
"Increases the performance of applications and is easy to deploy."
"Anyone can migrate over to VeloCloud, it's that simple, just plug in the necessary cables and it's done."
"When we upgrade to one of the edges, it goes very smoothly."
"In my experience, the setup process has been fairly straightforward."
"They have a lot of built-ins. There are so many applications defined inside the solution. It makes it so that we don't have to create some policies. Each and every application is already defined in it."
"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 security features could be improved."
"When it comes to adding more security features, you need to add more RAM."
"Better pricing and greater security would be nice to see."
"Cisco SD-WAN is not as easy to deploy as the Meraki and FortiGate solutions. The zero-touch deployment could be a lot better. The deployment and initial setup are complicated and could be better."
"The technical support is a bit slow."
"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."
"Customers require features that are secure for endpoints, on-premises, and for the cloud."
"The initial setup was not very straightforward, but it gets easier the more deployments you complete."
"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."
"In an upcoming release, the solution can be more functional and have additional features."
"Can't execute commands quickly when troubleshooting. The graphic user interface is slow."
"The security of the firewall should be improved. It would be a good idea to have a standalone product with better security."
"It needs better security."
"The solution doesn't offer failover between their own devices. If I want to, I should be able to put the two devices at the side, so there can be a failover."
"The firewall can be more advanced."
"In an upcoming release, they should allow customers the flexibility to use mobile applications where they can go and check on the information about their networks. A lot of vendors, such as Meraki, have a lot more integration with the use of portals to a mobile application. Having this feature as an alternative to logging into a laptop would be beneficial. If you are a SaaS-based company why not make a mobile application as well. You might not be able to do configurations but at least monitor while away or on vacation."
Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 2nd in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 46 reviews while VMware SD-WAN is ranked 3rd in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 25 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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