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Cisco Meraki SD-WAN

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What is Cisco Meraki SD-WAN?

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN is a cloud-managed solution that simplifies and secures wide area networking across branch, campus, and remote locations. Built on Meraki’s dashboard, it delivers centralized visibility, automation, and traffic optimization without the complexity of traditional WAN deployments. The solution improves application performance by dynamically routing traffic based on real-time conditions, integrating advanced security, and providing seamless multicloud connectivity. With support for hybrid WAN, direct-to-cloud paths, and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architectures, Meraki SD-WAN enables organizations to reduce costs, enhance user experience, and securely scale networks to meet modern business demands. Trusted by enterprises and small businesses alike, it combines zero-touch provisioning, centralized policy management, and continuous monitoring into a flexible platform designed for the cloud-first era.

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Cisco Meraki SD-WAN Reviews

What users are saying about Cisco Meraki SD-WAN.
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Pros

  • Intuitive interface and streamlined provisioning
  • Zero-touch provisioning for rapid setup
  • Strong network data and traffic visibility

Cons

  • Hardware limitations (e.g., active WAN port count)
  • Limited integration with some external services
  • Absence of advanced networking features (e.g., LACP, STP)

Meraki SD-WAN Offers Affordable and Reliable Connectivity

Incentivized
Matt Rathbun
Network Admin in Information Technology at ICM Inc (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our business involves the setup of temporary construction offices during projects with our customers. We needed a way to easily connect a small office of about 3 to 5 people with our main headquarters. It needed to be resilient but also cost effective. In addition to these infrastructure requirements, it needed to be able to handle large amounts of data. Most importantly.. THEY needed to be able to set it up.

Pros

  • Very easy to setup
  • Automatically builds connections
  • Secure
  • Robust
  • Handles large amounts of data

Cons

  • Only works with Meraki endpoints
  • Not as flexible for routing
  • Insight into traffic is lacking

Return on Investment

  • Eliminates IT Travel - Can be deployed by non-technical people at the site.
  • Less Cost - Saves thousands compared to a standard Cisco ASA with licensing and management. Our last deployment comparison was over $5000 in spending difference.
  • Compact - All network gear can fit inside a hardened case and deployed easily. Saves on storage space and reduces lost and damaged items.
  • Stable - Relies on the Meraki MX platform which is incredibly reliable.

Alternatives Considered

Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)

Other Software Used

Cisco Meraki MS, Arista EOS CloudVision, Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS)

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN Review

Div Patel
IT Engineering Operations Manager in Information Technology at Culture Amp (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

So we use Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, different sets of Meraki products. Starting with Cisco Meraki firewalls as a gateway for our offices. We use Cisco switches also, we use Cisco Meraki access points for our wireless network, and for our security—the physical security—we use Cisco Meraki cameras as well.

Pros

  • I really like the firewalls and the access points, like the wireless ones. From a wireless access point perspective, we recently moved to the new MR57s, multi-gig bandwidth as well as Wi-Fi 6, which helps users connect wirelessly regardless of where they sit in the office. The experience they get doesn’t matter wherever they move—it’s fantastic. So we’ve moved from the previous iteration of Meraki Access Points to the new iteration, like two weeks ago, and we’ve seen a major shift in the user experience.

Cons

  • I think for me, the products are doing great. I would definitely suggest improvement in the support process. Getting support is great, but when I spoke with a support engineer a couple of weeks ago, they were basically going through the support documents that are available online, which I could have gone through as well. So it would’ve been great if support were more human-centric rather than just going through documents that are publicly available.

Return on Investment

  • The product, as I said, the hardware, Cisco Meraki SD-WAN hardware has always been great. And the same thing with the Meraki line of hardware products as well. The wireless access points are great. They’re very stable, they can support any number of users depending on how we’ve selected the hardware. Firewalls are very scalable. They are super secure and have helped us configure office security or firewall security remotely from anywhere in the world. So it has definitely helped us manage the product remotely. At the same time, we’ve been able to support small or large branch offices regardless, using the Meraki product.

Other Software Used

Netskope NextGen SWG

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN

Incentivized
Martin Skakke
Network Systems Engineer in Engineering at TDC Erhverv (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Cisco Meraki SD-WAN to a lot of customers to better understand their needs. Cisco Meraki SD-WAN give a good unstanding on how to use it.

Pros

  • Ease of Management
  • Easy to scale
  • Great product

Cons

  • Lack of some key features / for example missing of LACP on the MX, STP etc.

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN review

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I’m a system admin, but don’t have any networking experience. I’m not a networking guy, and Cisco Meraki SD-WAN is easy enough for me to use, so it makes it very easy to use without any of that previous experience, so it’s good.

Pros

  • Very—it has a very intuitive interface, so even if you’ve never used it before, you should be able to find what you need pretty quickly.

Cons

  • There are a lot of menus within menus in the portal I use, so it’d be nice to maybe simplify that a little bit.

Return on Investment

  • It wasn’t my money to spend, but I think it’s been good—no regrets from my end anyway.

From Multi-Vendor Chaos to Unified SD-WAN Our Meraki Transformation

Incentivized
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We decided to fully adopt Cisco Meraki SD-WAN early this year, deploying it across three divisional offices, our headquarter, and over 40 remote locations. Previously, we used various networking products at different sites, which created significant management challenges and site reliability issues—particularly with site-to-site VPN tunnels involving VLANs. We also struggled with centralizing firewall rules and configurations for streamlined deployment at new sites, which is essential for our business operations.

Pros

  • Configuration Templates
  • Firewall Rules
  • Site to site tunnel
  • VLAN
  • Troubleshooting tools

Cons

  • Starlink integration - it would be nice if Cisco Meraki SD-WAN can integrate some of starlinks statuses into its dashboard.
  • Ping monitoring alerts for our servers and management devices.
  • Ai Base Traffic Analyzer for enhanced protection
  • peer to peer ZTNA to replace traditional VPN

Return on Investment

  • Reduced network-related help desk tickets by 60%
  • Reduced network deployment time from 2 weeks to 2 days per site
  • Solved network issues that we had
  • Eliminated manual VPN configuration at each location
  • Can troubleshoot 95% of issues remotely without site visits
  • Eliminated VPN tunnel failures that caused 2 - 3 outages monthly

Other Software Used

Abnormal Security, Twingate, Microsoft 365 Business Premium

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