Item: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
Rating: 9
Author: Kenneth Ma

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco SD-WAN

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Wan Optimization is what my company has been looking into for a while now. We needed a way to better optimize our WAN speeds as well as have an efficient and effective way of high availability. Essentially, cutting any downtime of our branch locations.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Wan Optimization
High Availability
Data Encryption via IPSEC

Cons

Implementation may be difficult without professional services.
Fairly new product.
Most beneficial for cloud-based applications.

Return on Investment

Less downtime equals less complaining from employees equals greater productivity.
Secure data traffic will satisfy audits.
WAN optimization provides more efficient data flow.