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…
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.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN isn't really a hardware product, so it's more like a concept. And so it's really hard to, this is kind of unique, so it doesn't really have a competitor per se.
Actually quite well, I will say. Like I said, I think the one thing that is probably holding us back is what do we need to do to clean up our environment now if we're able to do that right now, I think we wouldn't even be in this RFP process.
When we analyzed Meraki it was clear for us, that our company complexity and need required another level of maturity that was not present for there but it was for Viptela SDWAN now Cisco SDWAN.
Nokia was very good for a large scale deployment. Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN was better for a small scale deployment (cost less). The product have similar features. The differentiator was at the cost level.
The proof-of-concept setup that was done at a client site did provided a greater positive impression by Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN than Fortinet Secure SD-WAN for sure. It makes sense to use Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN while the major client is a Cisco house where more than 95% of network …
With all them we can automate and share a complete Software Define network in order to operate in the best way possible. We have programmability scenarios where we can connect different APIs from these solutions.
So I've used Versa and I've used Silver Peak. And to be honest I originally started off loving Versa more than Cisco, as far as the SD-WAN, just because it seemed like they were more developed. Of course they were focused solely on SD-WAN, so I think they were developed a lot …
I have some experience with DNA Center. My involvement with DNAC wasn't as involved as it is with SD WAN. But it is similar, you know, controller management also ACI. ACI is the beast, so this one I have to learn. And then ICE.