Cisco SD-WAN the next obvious Evolution of Cisco IWAN
July 10, 2019
Cisco SD-WAN the next obvious Evolution of Cisco IWAN
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco SD-WAN
Cisco SD-WAN is replacing an aging Cisco IWAN deployment out to 130 sites. Administering 130 sites with IWAN was becoming a highly technical task that we struggled to find the correct personnel to cover. We hope to utilize the Cisco SD-WAN analytics to help make application decisions and enable us to prioritize traffic for a better overall user experience.
- Zero touch deployment allows for less engagement of remote paid smart hands.
- Ease of administration. Administration can be delegated to less experienced users.
- The low cost of Vedge equipment is great.
- Cisco Services are great with set up and deployment.
- High licensing cost.
- Analytics in the higher tier is cost prohibitive.
- Negative ROI in terms of a monthly recurring cost, due to very high licensing costs.
- It's given us the ability to purchase low cost Vedge devices to replace aging Cisco Routers.
- We have the ability to adjust staffing to reduce the number of highly-skilled, highly paid, engineers to support Cisco IWAN.
- Silver Peak NX, Verizon Infrastructure as a Service and AT&T Synaptic Cloud
We looked at several different solutions, but didn't do many side-by-side evaluations. Once we sat down and looked at the capabilities of Cisco SD-WAN we stopped our evaluation process and went into a try and buy program. We feel the try and buy program is the quickest way to a useful deployment for us.