Huawei Enterprise Routers vs VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN comparison

Huawei Enterprise Routers vs. VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN

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Categories and Ranking

Huawei Enterprise Routers

Ranking in WAN Edge

8th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Routers (4th)

VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN

Ranking in WAN Edge

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions (7th), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) (11th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the WAN Edge category, the mindshare of Huawei Enterprise Routers is 2.4%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN is 10.3%, up from 8.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

WAN Edge

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Udochi Ododo

Manager, Technical Planning and Solutions Design at Galaxy Backbone Ltd

Easy to configure and troubleshoot, but they need more visibility in the licensing model

Huawei needs to be a bit more open with their licensing model. What I find is that when you buy equipment, you expect that you have a particular feature. By the time you want to use that feature, you realize that you need to acquire a license for it. That is the one thing that I think they need to improve on. Essentially, they need to open their licensing model such that when a customer buys a device, they have a full view of all of the available licenses for it. It's not at the time of use that the customer will now be informed that they need to purchase an additional license.

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Sami-Isoaho

Principal Cloud Architect at Loihe

To fully utilize cloud vendors' hardware networking, Microsoft and VMware support everything

To improve the product, the company, alone or with a good partner, should manufacture their own hardware brand with boxes to make the product more shippable. Implementing VMware is much more difficult, time-consuming, and expensive than implementing Fortinet or Check Point. With Fortinet, you pay a couple of hundred dollars for hosting and a low-cost firewall, there's only one box to ship to each site, and it's much easier to manage. Moreover, it would be easy for the large telecom operators and system integrators to sell the solution. It would also be a good fit for customers with multiple small offices, who I currently advise to choose hardware-vendor SD-WAN solutions over VMware.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We use the solution for point-to-point connectivity, aggregation, and radio connectivity on mTLS."

"When we started, the connection was amazing for the 100G between the switches and the co-switch. What the students typically use for school is a maximum is 40 so they now have faster technology."

"The scalability is good."

"This product uses a non-proprietary command line, which makes it compatible across many different systems."

"The product has valuable support services."

"The most valuable feature of Huawei Enterprise Routers is if have two networks at different geographical locations with a great deal of distance they work together as if they are on the same cloud network."

"I use the product to connect to various access points to extend my network."

"The product’s technical support team is responsive."

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"It's scalable."

"Has an optimization feature that acts to ensure the quality of the services running on the overlay to be most valuable."

"The biggest feature is called D.M.P.O., or Dynamic Multipath Optimization, which is one of the technologies that they use to deliver or ensure data integrity."

"Anyone can migrate over to VeloCloud, it's that simple, just plug in the necessary cables and it's done."

"This solution is as stable as most firewalls. VMware is a reputable vendor."

"The product’s most valuable feature is DMPO."

"The most valuable feature for one of our customers is the ability to stage cloud workloads from the local network."

"VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN has truly transformed our environment, providing significantly more bandwidth at lower costs, which is essential for tasks like Teams calls."

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Cons

"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see better bandwidth management, more granular web filtering, and portal authentication."

"Syntax in the implementation process could be easier to understand for a new user or someone who doesn’t have prior experience using the product."

"The configuration is complex and should be simplified."

"There isn't really any scalability potential."

"We have found we have to restart the routers or reconfigured them a lot of the time, this issue should improve. The quality of the hardware needs to be more durable."

"Huawei Enterprise Routers can improve by enhancing their security. The software architecture and the operating system that runs on their router and the security capability are not as strong when compared to Cisco."

"The internet speed reduces throughout the day. The tool is not stable."

"The solution's technical support could be improved."

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"There is room for improvement in the pricing."

"Can't execute commands quickly when troubleshooting. The graphic user interface is slow."

"There are a number of customers we have that require a fully mashed SD-WAN on VeloCloud that is not available currently."

"There should be more automation and self-service features."

"Implementing VMware is much more difficult, time-consuming, and expensive than implementing Fortinet or Check Point."

"VMware SD-WAN could improve if the hardware could integrate the interface using ICP. Additionally, if VMware SD-WAN is used with SSE providers that use tunnels there are some issues prioritizing traffic because it cannot decrypt."

"The solution needs improvement on security features and should include two firewalls. Cloud VPN can’t support any link. The solution needs to also improve the availability of centralized internal management. It needs to have debug detection and Deep Packet Detection features as well. The documentation for VMware is also hard to find."

"This solution can be improved by integrating other security solutions."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution's price is reasonable."

"Huawei Enterprise Routers’s cost is average. I rate its pricing a five out of ten."

"These routers are not too expensive."

"The product is inexpensive, but there is an extra cost for replacement of the device."

"The price of the solution is fair."

"The product is expensive."

"The solution is cheap compared to Cisco."

"Huawei offers a cheaper enterprise router solution than Cisco."

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"The cost of VMware SD-WAN is high, but I think you can still get better pricing if your volume is high."

"My understanding is that the pricing is in the same range as other solutions."

"The solution's price combines the license and the bandwidth you used."

"The licensing model of VMware SD-WAN could be improved, it is not always that competitive. The biggest concern is to be competitive against other solutions. However, the way that the licensing model is designed is not corresponding to the real use cases of my customers."

"The price of the solution could be reduced."

"The pricing is very comparable to Fortinet."

"Price would be a challenge for customers, because it is expensive."

"The price of VMware SD-WAN is less expensive than some solutions, such as Cisco."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Comms Service Provider

University

Computer Software Company

16%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Huawei Enterprise Routers?

The solution provides support for 5G connectivity.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Huawei Enterprise Routers?

The product is very cheap and offers a huge discount as they are trying to enter the market. However, you have to pay extra for some services and support.

What needs improvement with Huawei Enterprise Routers?

The documentation is somewhat lacking and not easy to navigate. There are some errors and misleading information. The general appearance of the company site is also not user-friendly for downloadin...

What are the biggest differences between Fortinet Fortigate and VMware SD-WAN?

One of our favorite things about Fortinet Fortigate is that you can deploy on the cloud or on premises. It is a very stable, reliable, and consistent solution. We like that we can manage the entire...

What do you like most about VMware SD-WAN?

One of the key use cases for VMware SD-WAN was assisting a customer in the industrial zone. They required virtualized servers and wanted to enable VMware SD-WAN to connect their sites in Japan or C...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware SD-WAN?

The pricing is high, making the margin thin, which limits mark-up opportunities from the wholesale price.

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Overview

Huawei Enterprise Routers AR G3 Series Routers, the AR G3 all-in-one router series integrates multiple services including; routing, switching, 3G, WLAN, voice, and security functions in one device.

Huawei

VMware Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is a secure access service edge (SASE) platform that combines many types of software-based network technologies in an attempt to enable users to virtualize their wide area networks and reduce their reliance on hardware. In essence, this solution makes it possible for users to reliably access their applications from anywhere in the world by leveraging cloud technologies. Users can simply, efficiently, and completely control their network devices and traffic. It ensures that organizations are always able to use the best possible connection to their data centers. VMware SD-WAN steers traffic so that it is always using the most reliable connections and at the same time takes steps to remediate any problems that it detects in other network links. This guarantees that organizations can access high-priority applications at all times.

VMware SD-WAN Benefits

Some of the ways that organizations can benefit by deploying VMware SD-WAN include:

Reduced cost of network management. Organizations that choose to employ VMware SD-WAN can manage their network at a cost that is 2.5 times less expensive than what it costs to use traditional WAN architectures. Its ability to both augment existing hardware and replace said hardware if the user chooses to do so is part of what enables users to reduce their overhead costs.

Ease of deployment. VMware SD-WAN makes it possible for organizations to deploy it without having to rely on the assistance of technical experts. When the device - whether virtual or otherwise - is connected to the internet, it integrates with a central orchestrator that pushes the correct integrations to the device in question. This automates the installation process and makes it so that anybody can initiate and follow the deployment through to the end of the process.

Easily segment networks to improve environmental performance. Users can divide their networks into multiple segments that share a single IP address. These networks can be incorporated into an organization’s IT infrastructure and enable it to run more reliably. One way it does this is by providing multiple potential channels for data to use to travel in the event that one of the data pathways is suffering from some kind of issue.

VMware SD-WAN Features

Centralized monitoring. VMware SD-WAN is monitored at all times by a centralized orchestrator. From one place, an organization can watch every part of its network. Instead of having to search for the data they need, it can all be found in one location.

Integration capabilities. VMware SD-WAN offers users the capability to integrate their network with the environment of their choosing. This enables them to connect their network to the IT environment that best meets their needs. It makes it easy for them to work with multi-cloud and hybrid environments.

Real-time data analytics. VMware SD-WAN can analyze network data in real time. This makes it easy for users to monitor their network’s performance. It also allows them to take steps to quickly remediate any issues that arise before they can become worse.

Reviews from Real Users

VMware SD-WAN is a solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. Two major advantages it offers are its ability to automate the process of creating and maintaining a virtual local area network and its intuitive user dashboard.

Sami I., principal cloud architect at Loihe, writes, “One of the solution's most valuable features is the VMware core automation stack at an SDDC. It includes NSX, the VMware virtualization layer for the networks (the LAN virtualization), which works extremely well with the VMware SD-WAN solution and is the primary advantage over all the others. None of the other vendors could integrate with the virtual LAN, making it quite complicated and virtualized to be fully automated.”

Chih S., senior technical consultant at a tech services company, says, “The product has a very good user dashboard that is simple to navigate.”

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Sample Customers

Bus Online, VisionChina Media Inc. (VisionChina), China Network Television (CNTV), Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, ABC, BovenIJ hospital

Redmond, Coca Cola, Roka Bioscience, MetTel, Deutsche Telekom, Rockford Construction, The Bay Club, tru Independence, Triton Management Services, DevCon, AXPM

Huawei Enterprise Routers vs. VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN