Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN rv
October 13, 2025

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN rv

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN

We use Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN primarily for centralized management and to enforce standardized configurations across all sites. The solution helps address challenges with operational consistency, simplifies change management, and ensures that our global network can be managed efficiently from a single platform

Pros

  • Centralized Management & Policy Control
  • Security Integration

Cons

  • Complexity of Initial Setup and Design
  • Learning Curve for vManage
  • Reduced operational costs
  • Improved application performance
The centralized management through vManage is powerful, but the interface can feel unintuitive, the learning curve is steep, and upgrades/documentation Once your team understands the structure (feature templates, device templates, policies), daily operations become efficient, consistent, and scalable lag behind the product.
We use both technologies SDA & Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN from CISCO.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

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

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN again?

Yes

Well-suited scenarios:

Global branch rollouts: When you need to deploy and manage dozens or hundreds of branches across multiple countries, the centralized management and zero-touch provisioning save enormous time and reduce errors.

Less appropriate scenarios


Very small networks: For organizations with only one or two sites, the complexity and cost of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN may outweigh the benefits compared to simpler VPN or firewall solutions.

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