Cisco SD-WAN vs Untangle NG Firewall

• 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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• Web Filtering is strong, and can also do application fingerprinting to allow Facebook, but not Facebook games. Secondly, a separate partition called a "rack" can be set up to give one subnet or group of users different web filtering policies than another. For example, teachers would get more freedom to browse the web than students at a school.
• Built-in SD-WAN connectivity as part of your license. IPSEC tunnel creation is also amazingly easy.
• Will install on any x86 hardware created in the last 5-10 years. Ram and processor requirements per user are very low.
• Reporting is phenomenal, however you can get death by details very easily.

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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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• The dashboard could be a little more customizable.
• I've run into situations where custom reports do not save correctly.
• It's not always clear where certain configurations are located, but it's still easy to find them quickly.

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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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• Before my installation, I was getting called 3-4 times a week to clean malware infections. Now I am getting called 3-4 times a year.
• Employees are far more productive when they can't access their social media from their work computers.
• Spam has been blocked and quarantined from hitting our users' inboxes, drastically reducing the time it takes to sort through daily email.

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