Item: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are completely engulfed in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN. Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN allows us to not deploy independent firewalls across our ~450 sites, and allows us to manage our devices independently.

Pros and Cons

Pros

vManage provides a single organization plane
Templates are easy to navigate
Central Policy allows us to manage our devices
AAR helps us with failing over when we have trouble with our circuits

Cons

Switching in to CLI more seamlessly
We have to preform ugrades/ patches often
We have to port hop our 8300s frequently

Return on Investment

Cheaper as the 8300 replaced both the 100m and 4331s we had
Cheaper as sdwan allowed us to get rid of checkpoint firewalls at the site
Multiple tiers of device options allowed us to pick a product that perfectly suited our needs

Key Insights

Do you think Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN go as expected?

Would you buy Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN again?

Yes

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN is well suited in our environment because we have a very large network that cyber security would otherwise have us deploy firewalls at if we were not using Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN. We have standard configs that go out on our devices, and the templates/ central policy is very useful for those. We do have a few issues at larger sites with multiple circuits with AAR/ port hopping.

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