Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN review
February 11, 2025

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN

As service provider we serve our global customers and we need to be very accurate on how we manage and advise our client. The Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN is a major topic for us because NTT DATA is famous operator in the world and we are very proud of offering the best solutions with our prtmr such Cisco.

Pros

  • OMP
  • Automation
  • Analytics
  • Security

Cons

  • Simplify the deployment
  • Merge the concepts of management etc...
  • Good ROI
  • Bad knowledge transfer
No very intuitive for none trained customer, very complicated to assure a day to day operations if you don't have a strong knowledges on network routing OSPF BGP RIP etc...
The different platforms and range of furnitures with specific options is very complicated for the integration and consolidation of the solution.
Nothing very specific to say about the concurrent products but there is lots of concepts differentiators and typically the range of hardware platforms etc... the concepts as well.

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

Not sure

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

Cisco Catalyst Center, Cisco Umbrella, Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)
Big company with regional hubs are very well served by viptela very strong control plane and reliable data plan. Good cloud automation with very robust edge devices and OS, we were able to offer more than 2000 secure branch to branch access and a hub and spoke topology.

The deployment can be very complicated for customer without any guidance.

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