Oracle SD-WAN (Talari) Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8 out of 10

Score

8 out of 10

Reviews

2 Reviews

Cost-effective and reliable, albeit it is not one of the big names

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 12, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Oracle [SD-WAN (Talari)] to connect our branch offices to our two main datacenters using two separate ISPs. This is used across the entire organization and allows us to provide private connectivity between sites without having to purchase expensive and high-touch private circuits, such as MPLS, VPLS, point-to-point, etc.

Pros

Set it and forget it
Very reliable platform
Truly makes Internet connectivity like private connectivity

Cons

Talari Aware management solution very complex to set up useful dashboards
Management interface seems overly complex (7.3), though this was supposedly improved in 9.0

Likelihood to Recommend

Product has been around for a long time and the stability and features are excellent. Now that Oracle owns it, its long-term viability is both improved (given Oracle isn't going anywhere anytime soon), but all the layers of bureaucracy and auditing that Oracle is famous for comes along with it.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Talari SD-WAN review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 23, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used it as a WAN router to connect a remote office to HQ. In my experience with Talari, I think it does an excellent job connecting our remote offices. Talai could solve our link issue. We do have a bunch of Link/los issues with our ISP, but we never were able to use it as is supposed to be used. I mean you should use two or more links (MPLS + internet, etc.) to able to fully take advantage of Talari link failure. Even only with only link connected it still gave us a lot of visibility, specially during link failure troubleshooting.

Pros

Failsafe- ability to aggregate low cost link and increase enterprise WAN bandwidth and also provide safe failor over in case of link interruption, with almost zero drops. In a lab test for voice it works perfectly for voice.
Config Change without system interruption (change config and apply it during Maintenance windows).

Cons

Ability to completely replace Core Router Functions - Especially in dynamic routing (add more routing protocols like EIGRP and also expand routing features like a prefix link, route map, and add more power routing capability to be able handle lar routing table).
High Port Speed. Device to be able to support 10G, 40G or even 100G port speed on both ways of communication.

Likelihood to Recommend

Although things like high speed are not available in Talari (I think none of the SDWAN providers offer this), Talari devices provide good security and are easy to manage.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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