Cisco SD-WAN Reviews

Cisco SD-WAN is very well suited for enterprises or companies that aim to have greater control or want to facilitate their own digital and cloud transformation, as it enables a cloud-delivered overlay WAN architecture. On top of that, multiple options are available if some are preferred, such as cloud, physical or virtual platforms.

The support that we have received during the deployment phase and the guidance that was imparted with were top-notch. We could have configured this without a doubt, but the expert opinion and advice that was provided to us helped accelerate the design and implementation process that we took. I won't go into specifics, as there are too many and they are on the case to case basis, but I am confident that you will be informed on what "fits" your needs best.

Initial setup of any SD-WAN is complicated and difficult because there is so much to do and it is so very granular. Because of this, Cisco has a number of free onboarding help setups. I worked one-on-one with a couple of engineers during our POC, and those relationships continued afterwards into the Pilot. And that's not even counting the Cisco TAC experience or the number of How-To videos and documents they have uploaded on their sites.

It's appropiate to use for multiple services, for example, to combine data link services and internet conectivity (includding 4g and 5g technologies) with different ISP. Its less appropriate when you only want to offer one service, data link, or internet techs.

It's a very good service.

SD-WAN es aplicable a todas las verticales de negocios, ya que ayuda de una manera eficiente en la administración de grandes infraestructuras, mejorando los tiempos de respuesta en incidente, facilitando la resolución de los problemas, así como garantizando la continuidad del negocio cuando ocurren interrupciones en sus comunicaciones upstream. Pero lo mejor de todo, es la experiencia del usuario mejora en un 100%, al tener la capacidad siempre de acceder a las aplicaciones de negocios de una manera fiable, confiable y segura.

SD-WAN is applicable to all business verticals, since it helps to make the administration of large infrastructures more efficient, improving the response times related to an incident, facilitating the resolution of problems, and guaranteeing business continuity when there are interruptions in your upstream communications. But best of all, the user experience improves by 100%, by always having the ability to access business applications in a reliable and secure manner.

Al ser soluciones integradas del portafolio de soluciones de Cisco, el soporte es transversal a cada uno de los componentes implementados, teniendo el cliente la capacidad de resolver sus inconvenientes bajo una misma infraestructura que está totalmente homologada, satisfacciendo de esta manera, las necesidades del cliente asi como permitiendo, que este se concentre en su negocio.

Since the Cisco SD-WAN tools are a part of Cisco’s broader portfolio of solutions, support cross-cuts to each of our deployed components, with our company as the customer having the ability to solve our problems through the same, approved infrastructure. Their support team easily satisfies the customer’s needs so that they continue to focus on business functions.

The perfect case to implement SD WAN is for a retail client that has a lot of branches where they need to connect constantly. Those branches are located in a “hard to work environment” where the IPS only has Internet connections (not dedicated) and this where there are many apps and a relevant quality of services.

We use it across the whole organization. We also have some virtual mx mounted on Amazon and Azure. We implemented it to solve the frequent problem that we experienced everyday in some of our sites. What happened is that when our ISP had a problem we sometimes lost full connection to the cinemas servers. With this solution we have 2 different carriers at each site and it give us a higher availability. A con is that sometimes the device does not work correctly at the moment that a failover its necessary and we have to manually disable the carrier that is not working. By that time it has caused problems in our connections.

This rating is because of our opinion that Cisco Meraki support is not the best. It takes too long to get the solution when we open a case on the Meraki dashboard, and most times we solve it by ourselves. Most times we open a case it takes at least 3 days to get a solution from support, and for a company like Cinépolis that has cinemas around the world it is unacceptable to wait that time and stopping our communications.

I noticed that this solution is very simple to manage through the vManage portal. The main dashboard affords customers valuable insights into what is happening at any of the company's sites.

Based on my previous responses, I gave it this rating because it really connected the organization and was, for the most part, a streamlined process of getting the system online and integrated into the company operations.

Conexión a servicios on premise y en la nube que requieren ser balanceados y asegurados

Provides connections for both on-premise and cloud services that are required to be balanced and secure

Al ser una tecnología nueva no hay muchos casos documentados // Because it's a newer tool, there isn't much documentation on it

It is well suited for a secure, private corporate lane on sites where we don't have connectivity on our own network and we must use a third party internet access.

As part of our support contract on all of our Cisco devices the support service has been great, I don't have any complains about it.

Well Suited:
Aggregation of regional branch offices
Deploy secure virtualized network services automatically
Connect Cloud/IaaS/SaaS Applications to branch offices with operational ease

Less Appropriate:
VPNSs site to site with others vendors.

It's very good.

We were able to secure our traffic branch to branch within our network as well as provide high availability between our data links.

Cisco SD-WAN is best suited for hub and spoke style designs.

Cisco support TAC is the BEST!

It is a very simple solution what can help you with less hands. Both small business and larger enterprises can benefit from using this tool.

Because for us it has been a best solution for what we were looking for (in terms of support) and our client now can work without problems in the network. We are now able to detect and prevent problems before they occur.

Conectividad eficiente a bajo costo

Efficient, low-cost connectivity

El servicio es muy bueno

The support services are very good

I would recommend Cisco SD-WAN for organizations with VoIP applications.

The support is great, it cover 90% of our requirements.

It really depends on the size of the company and what you are looking to do. Cisco SD-WAN is a great product but not the best for every industry. I don't recommend the Meraki solution, it is easy to deploy but has zero growth potential.

The support is good but not perfect. The solution is growing and updating so quickly that the support staff can't keep up with the changes.

It is appropriate for small to medium branches.

There is always room to improve.

It is very well suited for businesses with many remote branches. Especially for troubleshooting, for example you have a device located on a province, no need to go there to just check and console the device, by accessing only the device thru a SD-WAN GUI you can do the troubleshooting connected via a VPN.

When it comes to support, Cisco Technical Engineers are easily to contact. They provide immediate support when there is an issue, either support on how to deploy or properly deploy the SD-WAN. They also provide easy assistance to the team. The Technical engineers are expert enough and have the knowledge to provide assistance.

When you have different places and you need to have all these places in communication. You can use SD-WAN in order to improve your communications.

We think the support can be improved, but maybe by our partner, since we have the contact with our partner and not directly with Cisco.

For all your networking needs, SD Wan is the future. I haven't found scenarios for complaint.

I would argue that every organization should move towards SD-WAN, given the flexibility and benefits from it. There are so many enhancements like TCP optimization, analytics, and app-aware routing which should be looked upon.

Cisco SD-WAN is well suited for dispersed sites and complex wan environments.

Cisco SD-WAN is well suited for connecting new sites to existing SD-WAN fabric.