Cisco Wide Area Application Services vs. Citrix SD-WAN (discontinued)

WAAS works best for cookie cutter and some unique network design implementations. is best suited for an all Cisco network infrastructure. however, a number of 3rd party network devices can be used and supported when using this product. it's easier with all Cisco. It is priced pretty high to get into and medium to enterprise organizations is best suited to implement this in

Incentivized

Any organization with a robust IT support network and with 100+ users, all the way up to international conglomerates with millions of workers. The only situation I can see where it might be harder is if you have a very small business with limited technical know-how. Otherwise, it's honestly the no-brainer choice.

Incentivized

• Network file and application optimization
• VOIP telephony optimization
• Citrix application optimization
• Standardized user experience for networking usage

Incentivized

• Excellent integration with the Citrix Cloud Connector makes it a breeze to use.
• Access control is locked down with biometric security and easy password creation.
• License usage is always 100% secure.

Incentivized

• Administrator GUI user interface is archaic and very dated
• Admin GUI lacks a bunch of feature support options you have to do via CLI
• Some endpoint functionality needs to be done at each site instead of from the central admin tool. so redundant effort and can cause site config drift
• Admin GUI lacks some monitoring and reporting options that would be helpful for support and trouble resolution

Incentivized

• Sometimes the interface is a bit slow to load. That's honestly about it!

Incentivized

We are already a Cisco organization for network and security products. Cisco provided us discounting competitors just couldn't get to. competitors required more hardware and more complex setup requirements over this product due to our network design. The end result when comparing WAAS to others were going to be the same speed, experience, and pretty much the same administration requirements from IT. The added cost savings won us over.

Incentivized

After a lengthy vendor selection process we determined that CloudBridge was the best solution—although as always with demos it was difficult to tell if we'd really made the right decision. Since selecting CloudBridge—hough I have had lots of input from colleagues who use other systems—I feel very happy with our choice. The feature set alone is just far superior.

Incentivized

• saves monthly internet service costs
• seamless network experience for all users at all sites
• ok troubleshooting admin portal so some IT skills are required to manage this
• is costly to purchase
• somewhat complex to set up but easy to administer once working

Incentivized

• Tremendous savings from high uptime percent.
• Keeping our remote users engaged and stable at work means we can hire anywhere on earth.
• Access control keeps our IT team from constantly being tied up with password resets.

Incentivized