Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Review
February 27, 2025

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Review

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Score 5 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN

We use it to interconnect our branches and steer traffic over the best path from one branch to another or from the branch to the headquarter. And also maximize our, I mean, not maximize, but have less expenses on the transport we use because some stuff it's cheaper to send over the internet. Others, it's cheaper to send over the MPLS and there lot the variations there. And this is where Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN is the one actually helps us out because some traffic also can be sent straight to the cloud and just do not use expensive circuits.

Pros

  • The initial setup and building the whole infrastructure. It's like this.

Cons

  • I would think app based routing and I think that is app based that would need more improving and more apps to be identified and actually to be able to make decisions based on those apps and those apps.
  • It'll helped us to deploy large network setups in a really really small amount of time. That would be the main upside. The downside is with small clients, I don't know if they have 10 branches. It takes me the same time to set up 10 branches as for 1000. But this is how the technology works.

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

The best case, what I recommend to others and to clients to use is Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN one for is the case when you have a huge number of branches or small offices or remote offices, you name it. Even home offices, you have a large number and you want this whole infrastructure to be extremely easy to set up and also to have everything almost the same, not to have deviations from the standard configuration. This is the sweet spot for introducing Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN.

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