We performed a comparison between Big Switch Networks and Meraki SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Juniper, Aviatrix and others in Software Defined Networking (SDN)."What I liked about the solution is the quick and easy way you can build a network data center fabric."
"The solution has many features available."
"The tool is easy to use."
"Meraki makes you believe that anything is possible."
"Zero touch configuration onsite based on the manager system's pre-configuration and the VPN automation set."
"The most valuable feature is application performance monitoring and being able to browse packets dynamically based on priorities."
"The solution is pretty reliable."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki SD-WAN is the Auto VPN."
"The most valuable feature is the single management plane dashboard. Our organization has a global site, we have separated the area, and we have more than five hundred small sites around the world."
"I think if I was to say something that could be improved, it would be a multi-data center nature of the implementation."
"Meraki is more or less intelligent load balancing, although a lot of features are missing that our SD-WAN solutions will have."
"There are currently issues with NAT-Unfriendly situations on G4 networks that should be resolved."
"There is still some work to do when it comes to AI."
"I would like to see more functions added to the next release of Meraki SD-WAN."
"Technical support could be more knowledgeable and responsive."
"Warm spare is a good failover solution but Meraki could do something more to handle failovers better."
"Meraki offers the client basic security, it is not the same as what FortiGate is offering."
"I would like improved stability in Meraki SD-WAN."
Big Switch Networks is ranked 5th in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 1 review while Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 61 reviews. Big Switch Networks is rated 9.0, while Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Big Switch Networks writes "A flexible solution that can be integrated with third-party solutions whilst maintaining its automated nature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki SD-WAN writes "Very stable security, great service, and the best for VPN management". Big Switch Networks is most compared with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, Ixia Network Packet Brokers, Cisco SD-WAN, APCON and VMware NSX, whereas Meraki SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Omada Cloud SDN, Cradlepoint NetCloud and Prisma SD-WAN.
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