Cisco SD-WAN vs SonicWall TZ

• Before Cisco SD-WAN, our users even struggled to send emails with Microsoft 365
• Cloud applications, such as SharePoint, were not taking a long time to load and made it impossible to collaborate
• Streaming services--even though video streaming does not work at desired levels, music streaming started to work without interruption

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• Great security services package under Comprehensive Gateway Security Suite (GW AV, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, app control, etc.).
• Flexible customization of access rules, NAT policies, objects, etc.
• Geo-location filtering cut a lot of bad and just suspicious traffic.
• Ease of management and administration.
• Good hardware and firmware performance (after an upgrade to the most recent version).
• Low or competitive cost compared to other vendors.

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• Ease of initial configuration - I'm not actually sure how to make it easier without losing granularity and control, but it can be very difficult and confusing when first setting up. Afterwards, it's just point and click.
• Model upload - It would be nice if a given hardware model could be "uploaded" to provide a basic configuration to start with.
• Logs - I'd prefer more options for filtering logs and having certain ones not be alarms of any kind.

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• management is confusing has many items that could be improved to facilitate the work to the network administrator
• in the diagnostic tool I would improve the response times, that is, if a ping test is required, it should be quick, since in cases of failures it is sought to minimize the impact as much as possible.
• each function has a different license item, I would place a single license package for all team functions

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• In my previous company, we had several production facilities across the US using Cisco's SD-WAN and it allowed the company to continue to provide for employees and our end customers when problems arose with circuits.
• As I mentioned previously, vManage allowed the company to track when there are circuit outages in a really simple portal. Before Cisco's SD-WAN, we had to spend money on 3rd party monitoring.
• Whenever there was an issue with the server, an employee could request assistance from anywhere instead of worrying about whether or not there was an IT employee present.

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• Adding the VPN to the network, through SonicWall TZ, has allowed remote users to access the files they need remotely, without additional fees or convoluted methods, thus saving quite a bit of time.
• This device is less expensive than the previous device in terms of licensing.
• Due to the reputation of the company, this device is less likely to require hardware updates as quickly as competitors, thus saving my client from purchasing new equipment unnecessarily.

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