Meraki SD-WAN vs Prisma SD-WAN comparison

"I'm not directly involved in SD-WAN monitoring and maintenance, but based on what I've heard from our infrastructure team, it's working well."

"The features of SD-WAN are very appealing because you have a centralized dashboard and multiple options to terminate. You have an internet leased line, which means that you can connect your broadband and 3G and 4G cellular networks on the same router. This makes it easy for us to manage everything on a single dashboard. That is, you can integrate multiple stacks in such a way that you do not have to maintain any other dashboard. You get single-pane-of-glass accessibility with Meraki."

"The auto VPN feature is important because it automates many tasks, making things simpler and faster. It helps with setting up devices and changing configurations without manual effort."

"The best feature we're using is the packet shaping."

"The centralized console manageable from the cloud is one of the advantages."

"The solution is pretty easy to configure."

"The product does have a variety of features we can work with."

"The solution has a great UI."

"The solution's most valuable feature is the visibility of the logs."

"The solution allows our network to be self-healing in the event of a loss of connectivity between different locations."

"Prisma supports all of the applications we're currently using."

"Overall, I would rate Prisma SD-WAN an eight out of ten."

"From the main controller, we can administer the customer's devices, QoS, network, and traffic. We can monitor it and we can change and create policies as well as upgrade the software. We can totally control a customer's network from one site, the Prisma SD-WAN portal."

"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."

"Prisma SD-WAN is intuitive. We have a better idea of the different tools we can use and jump between the menus quickly."

"The security offered by the solution is pretty good."

"Meraki SD-WAN has to significantly improve the company's network performance."

"Meraki SD-WAN could improve by adding wireless access time-scheduled and overall capabilities."

"From the vice perspective, they just are not as robust as some of the other vendors. They have limitations in throughput and the number of circuits that they can support on a wide area network. Their higher-end security is all cloud-based. They have some capability with the premise-based solutions, but the higher ends are all cloud-based, and that's via Cisco Umbrella."

"Technical support could be more knowledgeable and responsive."

"You need to have internet access to configure the solution. You cannot do it locally, there should be a local option."

"This vendor has issues with the supply chain that need to be improved."

"I'm not too familiar with the Meraki environment, but I suppose more automation is always a good thing."

"The tool has challenges with features like multiple-link support, which currently only supports up to three links. Additionally, it doesn't offer router integration, and forward error correction is another missing feature. The scalability of Meraki SD-WAN is good, but there are limitations to the performance of the concentrator devices, especially in larger deployments. While the cloud scale is not an issue, the performance of the devices in branches and data centres is limited."

"The pricing for Prisma SD-WAN needs improvement."

"We initially had challenges with AIOps, which was overwhelming, and could benefit from simplification or improved training."

"The pricing model could be improved to make it more affordable for smaller companies."

"Prisma SD-WAN can be built on top of a couple of hardware platforms, including the Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewall or the CloudGenix infrastructure."

"Prisma SD-WAN requires a more seamless integration with other Palo Alto solutions, like Prisma Access."

"They could add more advanced security features to the product."

"Prisma SD-WAN's technical support should be improved."

"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."

"Our clients pay Meraki an annual licensing fee and the pricing is not too bad when compared to other products in the Cisco portfolio."

"The product is not expensive."

"The solution's pricing is in line with what we expected."

"The tool offers term licenses. You have the same term licensing model available for all of your equipment, which is good for management."

"They have a baseline software license, and then they've got an SD-WAN software license, and then they've got an advanced security software license. They're low cost, and they'll provide any amount of flexibility that you want from a modeling perspective for payment. Typically, it's either annually or multi-year, but they are a lower-cost company. They're not the most expensive by far."

"The pricing is reasonable and we can choose the software or the feature."

"I don't have information on the exact cost of Meraki SD-WAN, but I'd rate it a three out of five just because the licensing model is very much associated with the Meraki solution."

"like everything else, it's negotiable."

"If you're already invested in a Palo Alto product, it would be logical to use this solution. If not, there might be some other solutions that are more viable in terms of pricing."

"This solution stood out because it cost considerably less than the other SD-WAN solutions out there from Cisco."

"It is more expensive than Fortinet."

"Prisma SD-WAN is a pretty expensive solution."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."