We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Cisco SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"What I like best about this product are the support and the features."
"TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture) VPN features - Allows automatic VPN configuration with little or no input from the tech. Drag and drop lines between Barracuda units and the VPN is built automatically."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"Cisco is an industry leader, so customers have a high level of trust with the brand more-so than with some newcomers that might have some more revolutionary solutions, but no name recognition."
"The best feature of this technology that is available to us is the ability to do better load-balancing."
"Customizing SD-WAN is very easy because you can define two colors. You can define two different operators. You can deploy a partial mesh, a full mesh, or hub-and-spoke totally differently. If you want to do this on a DMVPN solution, that's really hard."
"The product's brand recognition is one of the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"The solution sufficiently provides ISPs."
"Configuration interfaces are quite easy and intuitive. Being a part of the Cisco environment, Cisco SD-WAN is quite straightforward."
"The initial setup is quite simple."
"The primary advantage we've observed is the simplification of deployment, leading to decreased IT costs and enhanced operational efficiency."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"The biggest issue that I have with this solution is that it is not super intuitive. Once you know what to do, things make sense, but you can't just open the program and start doing things. It would be great if there was a little bit more guided usage inside the program."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"It would be better if they had a trace and trap feature. It's hard for me to say anything bad about Barracuda. This is because we had a firewall go down in the town of Kirkland Lake, and it was a blown-out port, and they had an instant replacement."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"An area for improvement lies in enhancing the integration with the security functions of the SD-WAN."
"The inexpensive Viptela hardware may be replaced with overpriced Cisco routers. This would be a tragic mistake for Cisco as the lightweight commodity platform built by Viptela is the reason to own this solution."
"We recently found some bugs."
"It is the best solution that I ever had, but there might be something better than this in the future."
"Cisco products are a little bit complicated, so making them a little bit easier would be an improvement."
"It would be very helpful if we had better access to a knowledge base, or online documentation, to help both us and our customers learn to use this solution."
"The solution could have a better web interface to simplify changing configurations."
"Better pricing and greater security would be nice to see."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 12th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 35 reviews while Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 86 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Cisco SD-WAN is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco SD-WAN writes "A solution for integrating services to enhance up-time, performance and lower costs". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Cisco SD-WAN is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Juniper Session Smart Router and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Cisco SD-WAN report.
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