Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Review
June 12, 2024
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN one is part of our network transformation. So we're going from a standard access switch layer, switch to an SD wan. For a lot of reasons we're going into the cloud and we are using it for secure segmentation of traffic. So I mean it's how we're using it is basically like the gold standard. Everybody else uses it pretty much.
Pros
- We are able to use a multiple different circuits to go into the cloud, so we are not relying on just one particular private wireless. We're relying on wine circuits, ethernet, ethernet out. So it provides us that flexibility where we didn't have that before. Provides security that is very robust and flexible and scalable and it provides us with, the biggest thing is redundancy, where we have backup. For example, we have a Starlink for nuclear power plants. If our main circuits go down, we have that. And without Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN it would be very hard to actually achieve, to accomplish true redundancy. So we're happy with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN in that regard.
Cons
- So one of the frustrating things is that the name changes. This was a company that Cisco bought. We understand that, and everything was managed and whatever. Now everything changed, product line changed, and yet Cisco tax still calls it V managed. Sometimes it's just a little confusing. The name, the name of that. So that's the one thing that I would say. Keep it simple. We have way too many acronyms already that we try to remember in our industry. If you change the whole thing, it's very complicated for a lot of people. So keep it simple.
- It had a very positive experience, especially for the power plants that have actually already transitioned into Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN. I think Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN is a very powerful tool for them because again, it allows peace of mind for redundancy purposes. Most power plants are located in a very remote area where before they used to have only certain choices for circuits to get out. So this allows to integrate any choice that you have there, not just point to point. So no, it is been great. Again, we're still in the process of transforming the whole network into Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, so yeah, no, so far so good.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN isn't really a hardware product, so it's more like a concept. And so it's really hard to, this is kind of unique, so it doesn't really have a competitor per se.
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?
Yes
Did implementation of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN again?
Yes
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