Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vs. Versa Titan

Any campus deployments where you have more than five offices. I'd say you want a SD-WAN appliance because you want your network to be managed. You want uptime, you want all of everything to be connected. So if you don't have a ton of offices, I mean you don't really need SD-WAN products.

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• 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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• 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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highly recommended

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It is the best solution on the market.

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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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Cisco SD-WAN is a popular choice for organizations looking to simplify branch office networking and improve application performance over wide area networks (WANs). It stacks up well against other SD-WAN solutions on the market, such as VeloCloud (now part of VMware), Viptela (now part of Cisco), and Silver Peak. One of the key advantages of Cisco SD-WAN is its integration with other Cisco solutions, such as Cisco Meraki and Cisco DNA Center. This allows for a unified network management experience and the ability to easily implement security and compliance policies across the entire network. Additionally, Cisco SD-WAN is designed to work with a variety of WAN links, including broadband, LTE, and MPLS, which allows for flexibility in network design and the ability to leverage multiple WAN links for increased performance and redundancy. Another advantage of Cisco SD-WAN is its ability to integrate with other security solutions, such as Cisco Firepower and Cisco Umbrella, which allows for a more comprehensive security strategy. Additionally, Cisco SD-WAN provides detailed analytics and network-wide policy management, which can help organizations to more easily identify and resolve network issues and improve network visibility and control.

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• 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