From Multi-Vendor Chaos to Unified SD-WAN Our Meraki Transformation
February 23, 2026

From Multi-Vendor Chaos to Unified SD-WAN Our Meraki Transformation

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Meraki SD-WAN

We decided to fully adopt Cisco Meraki SD-WAN early this year, deploying it across three divisional offices, our headquarter, and over 40 remote locations. Previously, we used various networking products at different sites, which created significant management challenges and site reliability issues—particularly with site-to-site VPN tunnels involving VLANs. We also struggled with centralizing firewall rules and configurations for streamlined deployment at new sites, which is essential for our business operations.

Pros

  • Configuration Templates
  • Firewall Rules
  • Site to site tunnel
  • VLAN
  • Troubleshooting tools

Cons

  • Starlink integration - it would be nice if Cisco Meraki SD-WAN can integrate some of starlinks statuses into its dashboard.
  • Ping monitoring alerts for our servers and management devices.
  • Ai Base Traffic Analyzer for enhanced protection
  • peer to peer ZTNA to replace traditional VPN
  • Reduced network-related help desk tickets by 60%
  • Reduced network deployment time from 2 weeks to 2 days per site
  • Solved network issues that we had
  • Eliminated manual VPN configuration at each location
  • Can troubleshoot 95% of issues remotely without site visits
  • Eliminated VPN tunnel failures that caused 2 - 3 outages monthly
As mentioned previously, the centralized cloud management has been transformative for our IT team's efficiency and our ability to rapidly deploy new locations.
We've seamlessly grown from a handful of sites to 40+ locations without any scalability issues. The cloud-based management scales effortlessly, and deployment time actually decreases as you add more sites due to standardized configurations. Only reason it's not a 10 is that we haven't tested it at massive enterprise scale (1000+ sites).

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

Yes

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

Yes

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

Yes

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

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Meraki SD-WAN again?

Yes

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