Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vs. Citrix SD-WAN (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN gives users the ability to manage connectivity across their WAN from a single dashboard that simplifies day to day monitoring and operations. Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN can be cloud-managed or deployed on premise offering comprehensive routing, security and policy control, along with advanced analytics with the flexibility to connect to multiple clouds with greater speed, reliability, and efficiency. According to the vendor, it can be deployed across a small number of…N/A
Citrix SD-WAN (discontinued)
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Citrix SD-WAN (formerly Netscaler SD-WAN) was a software-defined WAN solution, featuring WAN optimization. The product is not part of Citrix's plans going forward.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
Cisco Meraki MX
Cisco Meraki MX
Score 9.1 out of 10
Cisco Meraki MX
Cisco Meraki MX
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
Cisco Meraki MX
Cisco Meraki MX
Score 9.1 out of 10
Cisco Meraki MX
Cisco Meraki MX
Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(97 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.3
(3 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(14 ratings)
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Availability
8.0
(1 ratings)
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Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
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Support Rating
8.3
(15 ratings)
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Configurability
10.0
(1 ratings)
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Product Scalability
9.0
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco
Like a lot of classical Cisco tools, every possible feature and customization is available and presented, which can be overwhelming for a lot of people upfront. In addition, Cisco provides multiple ways to design the SD-WAN which again may cause issues when trying to figure out the "right" way if there is more than one "right" way to do it. Once configured, the product is easy to maintain with point and click upgrades, performance metrics, easy troubleshooting and realtime analytics. While the hardware used for the solution can be a bit pricy, the fully leveraged solution provides customers functionality they generally did not have before.
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Any organization with a robust IT support network and with 100+ users, all the way up to international conglomerates with millions of workers. The only situation I can see where it might be harder is if you have a very small business with limited technical know-how. Otherwise, it's honestly the no-brainer choice.
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Pros
Cisco
  • We are able to use a multiple different circuits to go into the cloud, so we are not relying on just one particular private wireless. We're relying on wine circuits, ethernet, ethernet out. So it provides us that flexibility where we didn't have that before. Provides security that is very robust and flexible and scalable and it provides us with, the biggest thing is redundancy, where we have backup. For example, we have a Starlink for nuclear power plants. If our main circuits go down, we have that. And without Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN it would be very hard to actually achieve, to accomplish true redundancy. So we're happy with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN in that regard.
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  • Excellent integration with the Citrix Cloud Connector makes it a breeze to use.
  • Access control is locked down with biometric security and easy password creation.
  • License usage is always 100% secure.
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Cons
Cisco
  • I will say the way we use it now, and I think what happened was the way it was deployed, it was fine, but unfortunately over the course of the years we've gotten a little out of hand with our device templates and feature templates. I think if there's any form of feedback that I would give to Cisco is how do we find ways to improve the environment as it stands so we get to a certain point with the environment and then we don't know how to undo it or fix it or optimize the environment. Because right now we're in a position where we're playing a lot of catch up and clean up and if there was a way or some tool or feature that we can take advantage of that would allow us to optimize that environment where we will kind of corner ourselves into a lot of problems in the future. There's some feature or something that we could take advantage of that will allow us to optimize that environment and not let it get out of control pretty easily. That would be my suggestion.
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  • Sometimes the interface is a bit slow to load. That's honestly about it!
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Likelihood to Renew
Cisco
If the product working as expected and ticking all the objectives of Business than why not?
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Usability
Cisco
Good management tools, embedded security and easy automation. We particularly like the speed of recovering a device if need be. The templates being linked to serial numbers is a fantastic idea. The cost benefits are most significant to us as we no longer require expensive MPLS links to each site and each site has 4G LTE inbuilt.
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Reliability and Availability
Cisco
I think if we could afford, we could have HA inplace but we planned out outage and workaround to avoid any outages.
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Performance
Cisco
It does slow down over the period but it's same with other product. you need to clear/reboot services.
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Support Rating
Cisco
Al ser soluciones integradas del portafolio de soluciones de Cisco, el soporte es transversal a cada uno de los componentes implementados, teniendo el cliente la capacidad de resolver sus inconvenientes bajo una misma infraestructura que está totalmente homologada, satisfacciendo de esta manera, las necesidades del cliente asi como permitiendo, que este se concentre en su negocio. Since the Cisco SD-WAN tools are a part of Cisco’s broader portfolio of solutions, support cross-cuts to each of our deployed components, with our company as the customer having the ability to solve our problems through the same, approved infrastructure. Their support team easily satisfies the customer’s needs so that they continue to focus on business functions.
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Implementation Rating
Cisco
I was late to participate but my team was very happy with the outcome.
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Alternatives Considered
Cisco
We've used the old Cisco SD-WAN, which no longer exists. It was a lot more complex to configure what is now called Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN. So they've definitely come a long way in that it is a lot less complicated to set up and template based.
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After a lengthy vendor selection process we determined that CloudBridge was the best solution—although as always with demos it was difficult to tell if we'd really made the right decision. Since selecting CloudBridge—hough I have had lots of input from colleagues who use other systems—I feel very happy with our choice. The feature set alone is just far superior.
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Scalability
Cisco
Really strength in scalability. Only thigs it's depends on some prototype Cisco product which you can't work with other Cisco products.
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Return on Investment
Cisco
  • Our branch offices can connect to our enterprise network and the internet quickly and securely, which has helped to increase productivity and reduce downtime.
  • We have been able to reduce our dependence on expensive MPLS connections, and instead utilize a combination of broadband and LTE connections, which are more cost-effective
  • The centralized location improves network visibility and troubleshooting process
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  • Tremendous savings from high uptime percent.
  • Keeping our remote users engaged and stable at work means we can hire anywhere on earth.
  • Access control keeps our IT team from constantly being tied up with password resets.
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