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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Secure Connect

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/ACisco Secure Connect is a SASE solution that converges Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) and Security Service Edge (SSE) to enable operational consistency across premises to the cloud.N/A

    HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AThe HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN platform addresses the challenges associated with backhauling cloud-destined traffic to the data center, thereby reducing the cost of bandwidth connectivity from the data center to cloud providers.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco Secure ConnectHPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect
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    Offerings
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    Cisco Secure ConnectHPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    23 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    20 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Cisco Meraki SD-WAN
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Secure ConnectHPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (22 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.3
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (17 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Cisco Secure ConnectHPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Enterprise with Hybrid Workers or remote workers where most of the resources are in cloud. Branches spread around the worlds with private DCs. Enterprise with mpls or sd-wan connection, the Cisco Secure Connect technology is a further technology upgrade from SD-WAN. Central management of l3/l4 policies, DNS filtering and Web Filtering based on the identity.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    The HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN excel in environments where you do a lot of your East - West segmentation is done by another device. While these devices can do basic firewall functions, it's their not true intent. If you can group what you want your traffic to do into a few basic groups, this product will work great (think all Guest Traffic gets low priority and sent directly to the internet, VoIP gets sent directly out but high priority, and most internal traffic gets medium throughput). There are ways to really tinker reach the desired goals but this can be a double-edged sword of those configurations being forgotten about. There is also the use of templating which if you have a larger environment, this product will make some normal configs (think SNMP) more streamlined. The units are also highly reliable, built with HA in mind - our company has only experienced a single version that had a memory leak that we just needed to remember to reboot every 90 days while we waited for the next update (which came in like 4 months).
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • I think it integrates very well with Meraki, and that's the best thing I like about this product. Meraki is all about simplicity, and when a customer has the same user interface to get their network and security experience just right out of the Meraki dashboard, it really works. Very great. For example, if you want to secure the internet user, you want to use any, sorry, you want to secure any application, you want to secure any brand, it's just a matter of minutes. You can do it.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Fairly easy to manage once its setup and running
    • Updates are easy and handled with little downtime
    • Price is just right for the product functionality
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • For teams which are growing, it is very costly to purchase the capabilities that protects the business and even identifying the right subscription like advance threat protection.
    • The one who does not have any advance or high level Cisco Secure Connect experience, for them it is hard to use the Cisco Secure Connect UI. So, you should make the UI quite extra user friendly.
    • Finding the root cause is very tricky for large datasets.
    • Third party integrations are also not that easy with Cisco.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Ran into some weird bugs along the way that required support to address
    • Not having physical devices that you can reboot yourself takes a bit of control away
    • Administrators have a bit of a learning curve in figuring out the new system
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    The product is mature. The product support well all 3 main OS (Windows, Linux, MacOS). Cisco Support is great Cisco backends are powerfull appliance Cisco secure profile are a great feature and because they are controlled centraly, there is less way to bypass the VPN. Cisco SEcure connect is really easy-to-use for non computer expert.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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    Usability
    Cisco
    I gave this rating because it delivers the strongly on things that matters the most to our business like security, reliability and better user experience. It provides the secure access policies and it supports the MFA which reduces the risk. We can securely work from anywhere without any trouble also it supports both on prem and cloud access.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    The product and its management as a whole are worth investigating for any kind of people interested in looking at new SD-WAN appliances. The devices possess a lot of capability for granularity which makes them much more advanced than other products I've worked with in the past. Ironically, for all the granularity though, this product is held back that you can ultimately only have 7 different policies for routing decisions. We've ran into instances where we wanted two sites to only share certain routes between each other (through the use of tags which are basically an arbitrary way to say this traffic is special) but then we had to collapse some of our routing decisions in order to make a specific route table for these two to be able which felt like a step back in the advanced routing decisions we had previously made
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    It is better than any other vpn application
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    Performance
    Cisco
    Better performance compared to compititor
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    never used it
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    Very quick and easy, its a tidy set up, no messy cables and the sound and video quality is excellent. I use this weekly for home calls and larger team calls across the UK and Europe and have no problems. The engineers were in and out within a couple of hours
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Cisco Secure Connect allows for secure connections to critical systems with a better performance while maintaining security for users and business processes, maintaining the company policies and security posture for improved end user experience without impact on the services. Better tool tested when considering technical requirements and security posture requirements.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Prisma SD-WAN is a very simple solution to configure and maintain (so much to the point that in that environment, I questioned if my skills as a Network Engineer were needed). However it worked almost primarily on its own with very little input, by default and at the time of review had no way to do fully mesh (which was desired), and constantly suffered from memory leak. Its integrations were through the use of obscure tags and suffered from a "when it works - it works but when it doesn't - it doesn't and you don't know why" mentality. In contrast, HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN gives you a lot of insight into what is going on with the site, the integrations are done easily within Orchestrator (the control plane), and ultimately the product is typically a very stable product with many ways to configure and tweak the solution to fit your business needs.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cisco
    Will go for any offers with respect to the pricing
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    It is flexible across desktop os and mobile os
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    Professional Services
    Cisco
    Very professional and supportive
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • The positive impact is that businesses has reduced the dependency on physical hardware by moving and adapting its cloud services and on-prem security.
    • Due to the centralized management, it is easy for developer like us to manage the dashboard and also reduces the time spent on security task and routine networks.
    • Cisco Secure Connect is providing a strong ROI because it reduces infrastructure cists, improved IT tasks, enhances security which is very beneficial for long term businesses.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • It has created a bit of overhead as another control panel that needs to be managed
    • Recovery of invested costs will take some time
    • Time is saved on the separate management of sites
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