What is Cisco SD-WAN?
Cisco solutions provide customers secure access with end to end visibility when connecting to cloud applications—while also reducing costs. Features such as transport independence that includes 5G helps connect businesses to the cloud, while true zero-touch provisioning simplifies setup and lowers operating costs. Cisco also offers an unmatched set of service offerings around the globe to ensure customers and partners receive the right level of support to generate a strong ROI from their deployment. Cisco SD-WAN gives customers the flexibility, visibility and control they need to ensure long-term success.
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83 Likeliness to Recommend
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87 Plan to Renew
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71 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+84 Net Emotional Footprint
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Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Efficient Service
- Respectful
- Enables Productivity
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Cisco SD-WAN Reviews
Usman Z.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Food and Beverage
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Aug 2022
SD-WAN - Future in Now
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Cisco SD-WAN from other similar products?
Cisco is market leader in networking & security appliances. Since Major install base is Cisco so SD-WAN implementation allows edge over other vendors in market.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Qos (Quality of Service), Resilience, Performance, Flexibility.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing to dislike.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
if you are looking for Qos (Quality of Service), Resilience, Performance, Flexibility of implementation with ease of management. Cisco SD-WAN is your go to solution.
Pros
- Inspires Innovation
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
Gabriel I.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jul 2022
Awesome cloud-delivered WAN solution
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Cisco SD-WAN from other similar products?
It delivers the following key technology differentiators: Multi cloud access Goes beyond traditional SD-WAN Integrated security Integrated unified communications Enhanced network visibility with Cisco ThousandEyes and vAnalytics Multi gigabit capability Robust and diversified platform
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Enhanced visibility Operational insights Application experience Efficient SLA management Reporting
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing that comes to mind
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Cisco SD-WAN will help your organizations connect any user to any application, with integrated capabilities for multi cloud, security, unified communications, and application optimization — all on a SASE-enabled architecture.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Joya J.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Gaming and Hospitality
- Involvement: Vendor Management and Renewal
Submitted May 2022
Easy to use, but a bit pricey
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Cisco SD-WAN from other similar products?
Cisco is much more effective in terms of functionality and features but its term of cost cisco is much more pricey than other product like Aruba,
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
favorite aspect is its functionality and features like Cisco SD-WAN secure, Connects all company data centers core campus location, WAN branches, colocation facilities cloud infrastructure.
What do you dislike most about this product?
one of my dislike cisco is the cost its bit pricey that other product
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I recommend this to my other clients, because Cisco SD WAD solution offers a complete SD WAD Fabric with centralized management and security built in, creation a secure overly WAN Architecture across campus, branch, and data center multicloud.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
