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

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN can be adapted to any type of scenario. Everything depends on the needs of the business and the complexity in terms of routing and treatment of links, but nevertheless, where it is best adapted is for the retail and hospitality sector. Where I would not recommend it is for service provider scenarios or where it is required to have [...] more granular control of the quality of the service.

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Consultant in Engineering

Information Technology & Services Company, 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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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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No

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Support Rating

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN 8.1

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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

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN is a way better option due to the fact that there is only one point of management and the way how you can integrate the entire network. A very important focus point is the security of the network from the beginning to the end. The visibility of the traffic and the way you can trace any failure and report it

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ILEANA COLMENTER

Regional Account Manager - Hospitality

Connext (by Migesa)Telecommunications, 201-500 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 9.7

Based on 10 answers

Because [Cisco] Meraki SD-WAN has fulfilled the required functionality with the easy deployment of the configuration of new sites and growth, in addition to one of the integrations that Meraki has in general as a platform and the centralized management of everything through a single Dashboard. [...] The best thing is that [Cisco] Meraki SD-WAN is included from the enterprise licensing of the MX.

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Ruben Lara

Ingeniero Preventa

MigesaTelecommunications, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

All positive impacts. Easy to deploy, easy to manage. Z3 defects are rare.
ROI in 18 months.
All our hubs use Z3 embedded Wi-Fi.

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Patrice Tanguay

Directeur - Exploitation des technologies de l'information

Biron Health GroupHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 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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Cisco Meraki SD-WAN vs Citrix SD-WAN (formerly Netscaler SD-WAN)