Cisco Meraki SD-WAN vs Citrix SD-WAN (formerly Netscaler SD-WAN)

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend Cisco Meraki SD-WAN to my colleagues in the scenario of a big corporate with 2 or 3 IPS and small branches over the world where they can’t have specialist in case of a failure. The platform can be managed from a single point through the dashboard and make a simple or profound testing and troubleshooting without losing any connectivity. It is the best solution that will save you money and time

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ILEANA COLMENTER

Regional Account Manager - Hospitality

Connext (by Migesa)Telecommunications, 201-500 employees

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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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Clinton Verley

Senior Analyst, Operations

Aurora Health CareHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Pros

The natting function works really well. Even if you are behind a router with NAT, it still translates the traffic.
Security is a big benefit as you can define that only certain elements go across the VPN (SD-WAN).

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Reon Smith

Technical Operations Manager

Turrito Networks (Pty) LtdInformation Technology & Services, 51-200 employees

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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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Clinton Verley

Senior Analyst, Operations

Aurora Health CareHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Customized, esoteric configurations were very hard to get connected and configured.
We had hoped to configure all sites filtering in one place, but each site has to be configured separately. this is prohibitive with a large number of sites.
Network visibility does not work as well as I would like.
The MX appliances do not work well with voice VLAN when using the appliances as a small office router/switch.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Mental Health Care Company, 201-500 employees

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Sometimes the interface is a bit slow to load. That's honestly about it!

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Clinton Verley

Senior Analyst, Operations

Aurora Health CareHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN 8.1

Based on 2 answers

Fast and efficient. The only issue currently is that the support is only overseas support and not in South Africa, which causes delays in resolution for some cases. Escalating issues is quite simple and the opening of new cases from the dashboard is easy. I have never had a support issue that could not be resolved.

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Reon Smith

Technical Operations Manager

Turrito Networks (Pty) LtdInformation Technology & Services, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Ease of use.
Remote management.
Amazing technical support.
Remote firmware management.
Built-in alarm and monitoring.
Marketplace apps.
Amazing features like client VPN (AnyConnect) system manager.

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Verified User

Contributor in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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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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Clinton Verley

Senior Analyst, Operations

Aurora Health CareHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Scalability

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN 8.2

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The flag of Meraki is its scalability. This is an important feature that wins against the competitors. There is no better way to integrate new equipments, add new services and extend equipment’s licensing but the Meraki Dashboard. You can easily manage your inventory and move configuration without compromising the overall performance.

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ILEANA COLMENTER

Regional Account Manager - Hospitality

Connext (by Migesa)Telecommunications, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

So far, SD-WAN/ Internet has saved us thousands per month over MPLS over private circuits.
Simple sites are quick and easy to bring online.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Mental Health Care Company, 201-500 employees

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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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Clinton Verley

Senior Analyst, Operations

Aurora Health CareHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No