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    Cisco Meraki SD-WAN

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ACisco Meraki SD-WAN is a cloud-managed solution that simplifies and secures wide area networking across branch, campus, and remote locations. Built on Meraki’s dashboard, it delivers centralized visibility, automation, and traffic optimization without the complexity of traditional WAN deployments. The solution improves application performance by dynamically routing traffic based on real-time conditions, integrating advanced security, and providing seamless multicloud connectivity. With support…N/A

    Lumen SD-WAN Solutions

    Score6.3 out of 10
    N/ALumen SD-WAN Solutions (formerly CenturyLink® SD-WAN) with hybrid connectivity is a WAN solution supporting scalable networks across a range of connectivity types. They integrate disparate connectivity types into seamless hybrid software-defined WAN.Gain complete visibility through a centralized customer portal. Branches can get out to the internet/cloud directly without hairpinning through a central HQ, improving performance. Lumen SD-WAN helps improve application performance, like application…N/A
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    Cisco Meraki SD-WANLumen SD-WAN Solutions
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    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    78 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    77 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    68 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Cisco Meraki SD-WAN
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Meraki SD-WANLumen SD-WAN Solutions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (87 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (85 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    Cisco Meraki SD-WANLumen SD-WAN Solutions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    I believe it is well suited for "pop-up" offices of a small number of people. 5 to 10 is ideal. It can be setup with a minimum of involvement from the IT infrastructure group. It is a very simple way to connect a remote site securely and quickly with the confidence that the connection will be stable. I believe it is less suited for a large organization requiring complex routing and routing protocols. It only works with Meraki endpoints and so there must be Meraki firewalls at both ends. It cannot be used with IPSEC tunnels
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    Lumen Technologies
    Although it is one of the most highly trusted and highly reliable high-speed internet connections, there are times when CenturyLink SD-WAN Solutions had unexpected outages which ran longer than normal causing service degradation. That should be looked at.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • I really like the firewalls and the access points, like the wireless ones. From a wireless access point perspective, we recently moved to the new MR57s, multi-gig bandwidth as well as Wi-Fi 6, which helps users connect wirelessly regardless of where they sit in the office. The experience they get doesn’t matter wherever they move—it’s fantastic. So we’ve moved from the previous iteration of Meraki Access Points to the new iteration, like two weeks ago, and we’ve seen a major shift in the user experience.
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    Lumen Technologies
    • Internet Solutions.
    • Network Access Points.
    • High performing Routers.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • I personally think that this particular place is on the logging side. I have seen where the event log is that what they call in terms of capturing all the log events is the area which I personally feel can actually be improved. Even this could be similar, like how I said about packet capture where you could have a flexibility of having a high level information or deep level regardless you should have that kind of option where you could also see the logging site as granular as per the requirement. So that's the area which I think is a bit little behind compared to other vendors.
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    Lumen Technologies
    • The quality of the fibre used.
    • Avoiding unexpected outages.
    • Package pricing.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    Because so far the solution showed great stability during the time, easy to use and deploy. There is still room for improvements like adding a smarter way to manage the policies to apply to the tunneled traffic, today the way to configure and manage them is quite old style, It would be better an "object" oriented way to create them.
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    Lumen Technologies
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    Usability
    Cisco
    Its usable very well
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    Lumen Technologies
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    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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    Lumen Technologies
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    We did a very stringent valuation a few years ago. And we evaluated probably about a dozen suppliers on paper that we evaluate just by capabilities. And, we of some other business criteria, and we whittled that down to a list of five. And out of those five, we brought four of those into our lab environment where we ran approximately 350 different test cases on, we really beat on it pretty heavily. And some of those other suppliers would've been companies like Fortinet Versa Networks Silver Peak, which is now owned by Hewlett Packard.
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    Lumen Technologies
    It was my company's decision though on selecting to use Century Link SD-WAN Solutions. However it was very faster in the European region when compared to other products.
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    With the implementation of Cisco Meraki SD-WAN on our new site, this has enabled us to optimize the bandwidth of our 3 links. Thanks to this, updates pushed by Microsoft Intune, such as Microsoft CRM operations, are running smoothly. The same applies to SAP and our Teams meetings. And I almost forgot our Cisco telephone system.
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    Lumen Technologies
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Cisco Meraki SD-WAN gave us a new perspective on SDN, ZTP and other automation tools we didn't have before
    • The sizing of Meraki MX series cannot compete very large and robust networks, only if we use virtual appliances. In this case, I would recommend on other vendors like Fortinet
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    Lumen Technologies
    • We were able to provide our solutions.
    • Application were running with out any issues.
    • It has god speed.
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