Cisco Meraki SD-WAN vs Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)

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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Product has been around for a long time and the stability and features are excellent. Now that Oracle owns it, its long-term viability is both improved (given Oracle isn't going anywhere anytime soon), but all the layers of bureaucracy and auditing that Oracle is famous for comes along with it.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 201-500 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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Failsafe- ability to aggregate low cost link and increase enterprise WAN bandwidth and also provide safe failor over in case of link interruption, with almost zero drops. In a lab test for voice it works perfectly for voice.
Config Change without system interruption (change config and apply it during Maintenance windows).

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Insurance Company, 501-1000 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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Manager in Information Technology

Mental Health Care Company, 201-500 employees

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Talari Aware management solution very complex to set up useful dashboards
Management interface seems overly complex (7.3), though this was supposedly improved in 9.0

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Financial Services Company, 201-500 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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Oracle SD-WAN (Talari) 8.0

Based on 1 answer

So far so good. I have no problems with support; they were able to deliver a good service to us every time we needed it.

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Insurance Company, 501-1000 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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While I haven't looked at Silverpeak in a long time and haven't used any of the other big players, this product is a dedicated SD-WAN solution, so no need to get a combination device, unless that's important. We will likely implement SD-WAN through our next firewall platform refresh as a backup to Talari.

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Financial Services Company, 201-500 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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lowes oue WAN links Cost
Lower our Tshoot time /remote office

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Insurance Company, 501-1000 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