We performed a comparison between Meraki SD-WAN and Prisma SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Juniper, Big Switch Networks and others in Software Defined Networking (SDN)."The seamless end-to-end setup is really what makes it beautiful; that's why Meraki is good."
"It is easy to monitor and manage."
"The management system is one of the best available."
"Having to set up a closed system singlehandedly and a lifetime guarantee on the equipment is a valuable part of this solution."
"We have found the scalability to be good."
"This is a high availability solution that is easy to configure and has a nice GUI."
"Meraki SD-WAN is a very stable and scalable solution with good technical support."
"As long as the LAN is well structured, installations and setup can be complete within forty-five minutes."
"I like that the integration with Palo Alto is easy."
"Prisma's analytics provide a lot of valuable data. I like the internet health chart that shows latency, dropped packets, MOS for data quality, etc. It also runs a continuous speed test in the background. I've used it multiple times to troubleshoot internet connections when the service provider has attempted to claim nothing is wrong with the circuit. It gives me data to send them showing we're not getting the speed we should, or there is constant packet loss."
"Prisma SD-WAN is intuitive. We have a better idea of the different tools we can use and jump between the menus quickly."
"Prisma supports all of the applications we're currently using."
"The gateway is available on the cloud which allows you access from anywhere and still connects to your home gateway."
"When it comes to supporting large, complex, network architectures, it's a very simple architecture. The main component is the fabric. It's very easy to troubleshoot if there is an issue happening in the underlying network."
"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."
"It is flexible to use the internet connection via local breakouts without going to data centers."
"There could be more options for integration between other devices — sort of being able to more easily make everything integrated in one solution."
"I would like to see more functions added to the next release of Meraki SD-WAN."
"There should be a few more options for security parameters. It is currently not very customizable. It should be a little bit more customizable."
"A run optimization feature is needed to reduce the bandwidth for any uploaded content."
"The interface in the VPN management system can be a bit complex for users to understand."
"It should be easier to install BGP and it should have a better backup."
"The area I think this solution should improve is the pricing."
"We'd like features that provide more transparency when there are issues. Right now, it's hard to get clarity on problems. We need more visibility."
"I would also like to see improvement in the product training for customers. Palo Alto has not initiated very much training but they have to do so because this is a new product. If you have experience in a legacy environment, and you are moving to Prisma SD-WAN, you don't have a training framework. That is one of the disadvantages."
"Prisma SD-WAN's technical support should be improved."
"Prisma could be a little cheaper."
"Event correlation and analysis capabilities do not help minimize the number of alarms from a single event. That is the problem. We are getting a lot of incidents, and there is some issue with the correlation. That is still a drawback."
"The only con is the pricing because it's more premium."
"Customer support is our biggest pain point. The quality of support has gone down a little since we initially deployed this product. I don't know if this is due to turnover at Palo Alto or a lack of training. It is now taking one or two days to get an initial response that says, "Hey, we've looked into this, can you pull this data for us?" In the past, we'd immediately get a response."
"There are two parallel things that we want Palo Alto to work on. First, customers want a unified appliance that does the work of all firewalls in addition to SD-WAN. Second, the cloud presence should be completely automated. If I purchase the SASE architecture, I shouldn't worry about deployments in Prisma Access or on Prisma SD-WAN. It should be deployed in one go."
"Sometimes, during the product's initial setup phase, bypass pair or couple ports don't come up normally, and it requires an hour and a half to troubleshoot to reset the box from Prisma SD-WAN to factory default."
Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 60 reviews while Prisma SD-WAN is ranked 4th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 11 reviews. Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.2, while Prisma SD-WAN is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Meraki SD-WAN writes "Very stable security, great service, and the best for VPN management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prisma SD-WAN writes "A stable tool that offers a good uptime and ensures a return on investment". Meraki SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Omada Cloud SDN, Cradlepoint NetCloud and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform, whereas Prisma SD-WAN is most compared with Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform and VMware SD-WAN.
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