Meraki SD-WAN Reviews

Name: Meraki SD-WAN
Brand: Cisco
Rating: 4.2 (77 reviews)

Vendor: Cisco

4.2 out of 5

77 reviews
97% willing to recommend

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What is Meraki SD-WAN?

Software-defined WAN is a new approach to network connectivity that lowers operational costs and improves resource usage for multi-site deployments, allowing network administrators to use bandwidth more efficiently and ensure the highest possible level of performance for critical applications without sacrificing security or data privacy. For more information on deploying and configuring SD-WAN on the Meraki MX Security Appliance, see the Meraki SD-WAN Deployment Guide.

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Meraki SD-WAN is the #1 ranked solution in top Software Defined Networking. PeerSpot users give Meraki SD-WAN an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. Meraki SD-WAN is most commonly compared to Cisco ACI: Meraki SD-WAN vs Cisco ACI. Meraki SD-WAN is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 60% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 20% of all views.

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Martyn Walker

Business development manager at Virgin Media

Scalability could be improved. Yes, you can add more than 300 or 400 sites onto it, but because it's not a true SD-WAN and, effectively, it's just a Multi-VRF, it's all hub and spoke at that point. That's the nature of the design, but that's what keeps it simple to administer. So, it's a trade off.

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Premnath Jaganathan

Product Manager at Uop Ipl

The security integration in Meraki SD-WAN is not as good as the competition, such as Fortinet. Customers are moving away due to this reason, as Meraki lacks in offering advanced security features, which is crucial for many enterprise clients. Cisco's AI capabilities and Meraki are about seventy percent caught up with competitors like Juniper Mist in terms of AI integration.

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Daniel Brunnquell

Director Of Information Technology at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

Meraki did the job for what I needed. The key principle to follow is to let the problem drive the solution. Don’t pick a solution and try to force your problem into it. In our case, our needs drove the solution, and Meraki fit those needs best. If I were looking for more throughput, there would be better solutions. For example, Palo Alto and Fortinet can offer higher bandwidth capacities. I sized the solution based on the bandwidth available, which we likely won’t exceed. The main feature we needed was maintaining the system with minimal staff and without outsourcing support. Defining our needs led us to AutoVPN, which fits our requirement for minimal support. Meraki was the right product to meet these needs. If your priority is backend traffic and bandwidth, and you don’t need to filter traffic and scan for malware, geofence, or mesh networks, there are better options with more capacity. But that wasn’t our need. The real issue is that many people pick a solution and try to adapt their business model, which is the wrong approach. In the long run, that limits you.

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Meraki SD-WAN mindshare

As of February 2025, the mindshare of Meraki SD-WAN in the Software Defined Networking (SDN) category stands at 24.0%, up from 23.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Software Defined Networking (SDN)

PeerAnalyst reports

Type	Title	Date
Category	Software Defined Networking (SDN)	Feb 19, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Feb 19, 2025	Download
Comparison	Meraki SD-WAN vs Cisco ACI	Feb 19, 2025	Download
Comparison	Meraki SD-WAN vs Aviatrix	Feb 19, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Cisco ACI	4.0	13.8%	85%	101 interviews Add to research
Cradlepoint NetCloud	3.5	6.4%	50%	4 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"Meraki Solutions setups make it one of the best products I have ever worked with."
"The integration of security features is important, although there is room for improvement."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of setting up Meraki SD-WAN."

Room for Improvement

"The only problem occurs when users are not paying attention and turn on the wrong switches, like power switches, in places they should not."
"The security integration in Meraki SD-WAN is not as good as the competition, such as Fortinet."
"Meraki SD-WAN could be improved by including full feature routing functions similar to a normal Cisco router."

Pricing

"The tool is costly. I rate the tool's price as a ten out of ten since it is very expensive."
"The solution's pricing is in line with what we expected."
"The tool offers term licenses. You have the same term licensing model available for all of your equipment, which is good for management."

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