Item: Cisco Meraki SD-WAN
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Meraki SD-WAN

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco Meraki SD-WAN to enable higher availability, performance based routing and decentralized internet using complimentary products such as Cisoc Secure Access by locally routing internet traffic outside the AutoVPN services

Pros and Cons

Pros

Ease of Access and setup
High Visibility of data and traffic
zero touch provisioning for hardware

Cons

Active WAN ports. currently limited to 2 plus 1 backup
duplication of traffic over multiple AutoVPN tunnels
more granular data via the dashhboard

Return on Investment

positive in delivering a single pane of glass management platform where policies and configuration can be centralised and shared
negative where features and functionality are being discussed and in development but clear and committed delivery timelines are not published or shared.

Simplified Management

deployment of Cisco Meraki SD-WAN has been relatively easy for network engineers who are accustomed to working CLI across various platforms. easy of adoption is relatively easy

Integrations with other Cisco products

Cisco Umbrella

Scalability

Limited larger scale hardware. This should be addressed by C8455 but the costs on the larger hardware are 300% higher than the previous large scale box.

Key Insights

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?

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

Other Software Used

Cisco Umbrella, Cisco Duo

Likelihood to Recommend

Currently SME environments and where connectivity is required with limited local resources. For locations where small footprints are required. Where non IT personnel are available. where the local network can benefit from clean easy to install equipment where auto healing I.e having intelligent equipment is key to success and survivabiity

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Cisco Meraki SD-WAN Review