We performed a comparison between Juniper Contrail Networking and Meraki SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It provides proactive alerting in a single dashboard solution."
"After we finished setting Contrail up, it seemed stable enough. Still, we never tested it in a real environment, so we don't have enough information to say whether it's stable with a given number of users and appliances. We have tested it in a lab environment, but we haven't tested enough to say that the platform is stable."
"Juniper Contrail Networking is a stable solution."
"Meraki can react fast to emerging trends."
"The solution is a whole vertical solution, so it doesn't need any other components in order to provide basic features."
"The best feature we're using is the packet shaping."
"The solution has a great UI."
"It's made managing our client's networks extremely easy, regardless of my location. Being able to hop on my cell phone to see what's happening on a client's network makes everything much more manageable."
"The seamless end-to-end setup is really what makes it beautiful; that's why Meraki is good."
"We have found the product to be quite scalable."
"The solution is stable."
"Juniper Contrail Networking is difficult if you do not have a certificate for Juniper. Juniper is a different type of configuration or operation than Cisco."
"Juniper needs to address the market's specific requirements, such as the SME sector, and offer more lower-priced products like a lower-end segment switch."
"Visibility, especially for the top of the platform, is a nightmare. The top was documented incorrectly and really complex to complete. In the end, it worked but only after several weeks of work with the support of a Juniper solution engineer in Holland."
"There are currently issues with NAT-Unfriendly situations on G4 networks that should be resolved."
"The default classes should be expanded."
"Overall, we are satisfied with the support, although I cannot state this unequivocally."
"The solution lacks controllers."
"The security and upgrading could improve in this solution."
"Meraki is more or less intelligent load balancing, although a lot of features are missing that our SD-WAN solutions will have."
"There are literally things you cannot do at this point in a graphical user interface that can be done from a command line."
"The granularity could be improved."
Juniper Contrail Networking is ranked 4th in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 3 reviews while Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 60 reviews. Juniper Contrail Networking is rated 7.0, while Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Juniper Contrail Networking writes "Smart configuration management eliminates the need to worry about managing the network's configurations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki SD-WAN writes "Very stable security, great service, and the best for VPN management". Juniper Contrail Networking is most compared with Tungsten Fabric, VMware NSX, Cisco SD-WAN and VMware SD-WAN, whereas Meraki SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Omada Cloud SDN, Cradlepoint NetCloud and Prisma SD-WAN. See our Juniper Contrail Networking vs. Meraki SD-WAN report.
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