I am also familiar with Meraki SD-WAN. It has a very enticing user interface. They've done a fantastic job with the interface, They have enhanced the appearance. An interesting fact is that Meraki's offering isn't a true SD-WAN. A true SD-WAN has an SD-WAN controller, an orchestrator, and it doesn't have those things, but Nuage does. One of the things that I believe most people don't ask and don't realize until they are in that situation is that if I have a VoIP call and I lose one of my uplinks with my Meraki, I will lose that VoIP call. With a true SD-WAN, you won't. It will failover and you will maintain that VoIP session. This is something that Cisco, and Meraki do not advertise, but if you ask their SE, they will tell you. The VoIP is probably one of the larger issues, and instead of true SD-WAN, all they have are L3 VPNs. All they have done is put a wrapper around it, so you don't have to configure it. However, it is not true SD-WAN if there are one or more controllers and the overlay and underlay are separated. I believe that if people truly understand what SD-WAN is, they will be able to look beneath the surface and say, "That's not what that is." Meraki is easy to set up. It's actually quite high on the setup, in my opinion. With the caveat that it is not truly SD-WAN. It's a stable solution. I have no issues with the stability of Meraki SD-WAN. Meraki is a scalable product. The technical support is excellent. Nuage is very competitive. Cisco has never tried to be a price leader since it launched. It's not one of the market forces that they try to be a price leader. If they want a true, automated failover, I would suggest asking some pointed questions. I would rate Meraki a seven out of ten.
