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Citrix SD-WAN [EOL] vs Exinda comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 22, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.5
Citrix SD-WAN customer support receives mixed feedback, praised for helpfulness but criticized for response times and inconsistent quality.
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Exinda's customer service receives mixed reviews, citing issues with ticket logging, support availability, and delayed quotes, but some positive feedback.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
5.9
Citrix SD-WAN [EOL] needs easier setup, enhanced reporting, better technical support, improved security, and a refined licensing model.
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Exinda requires better support, simpler licensing, faster updates, more training, improved performance, enhanced cloud compatibility, and VLAN-based monitoring.
 

Scalability Issues

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Citrix SD-WAN [EOL] offers scalability, flexibility, and performance optimization, supporting enterprises and smaller setups but may require significant upgrades.
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Exinda is scalable for small to medium businesses, handles various bandwidths, and easily upgrades with presales steps and future models.
 

Setup Cost

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Citrix SD-WAN pricing varies widely, with options for perpetual licenses, and costs ranging from $1,000 to $20,000 per deployment.
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Exinda provides scalable licenses with competitive pricing and valuable features, ideal for cost-conscious organizations, available via annual bandwidth licenses.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
6.6
Users find Citrix SD-WAN [EOL] stable with minimal maintenance, despite occasional power issues and hardware failures beyond Citrix's control.
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Exinda's stability improved in version 7.2; minor dashboard issues exist, but users generally trust its performance without seeking alternatives.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.3
Citrix SD-WAN offers robust security, reliability, load balancing, ease of management, cost-effectiveness, and seamless failover with centralized online management.
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Exinda enhances network management with traffic prioritization, dynamic throughput, application control, monitoring, and tailored policies for efficient optimization.
 

Categories and Ranking

Citrix SD-WAN [EOL]
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Exinda
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
WAN Optimization (6th)
 

Featured Reviews

Rohit Ghorpade - PeerSpot reviewer
A scalable solution for MCN controller but lacks technical supports, upgrades
There are a few things that can be improved, are domain-based routing and the slowness of virtual parts, and it may be due to the wrong configuration, which we have been unable to find out. Previously, we faced some issues with the slowness part. Apart from that, feature like end gateway level antivirus. We are currently using a NetFlow proxy to establish a virtual position for the NetFlow. Our current environment has many use cases, but we are not using them on the Citrix SD-WAN. When I navigate the NCL part, it involves configuration. I want to highlight this disadvantage. Sometimes, when we push the configuration, it tries to push it to all branch locations. This process takes a lot of time, nearly 30 minutes, to push a single change from the NCL. Overall, I don't think Citrix meets our use cases what we have. This is based on my feedback after using it for the past year and working on this Citrix SD-WAN. However, from my experience, it is the worst solution I have seen. There's no domain-based routing, which is horrible. That's why we are moving to other products. We have checked our use case requirements with Fortinet, Palo Alto, and they meet them. I will consider the PoC or another OEM. There are many things in the area you need to be prompt, like the automation part. If any link or device goes down, alerting notification, etc. We need to perform and highlight so many things to your management. This should be improved.
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Gives us the ability to prioritize network traffic into a hierarchy
Creating the custom application is a bit awkward. I kind of have to guess my way through it sometimes. A lot of working with this solution is really intuitive. I have picked it up mostly on my own. I'm sure that there are some things that maybe I hadn't thought of or really hadn't considered, and I think it would be good just to promote some day courses. I don't really see a whole lot that comes out for Exinda as far as training or informational sessions through our normal resellers. It would be cool to know more about the solution by utilizing educational resources or even have Exinda promoted a bit better.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
22%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Real Estate/Law Firm
8%
Retailer
6%
Computer Software Company
23%
Real Estate/Law Firm
13%
Government
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Citrix SD-WAN?
It lowered our Internet costs and gave me the flexibility to choose providers based on each location's connectivity.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Citrix SD-WAN?
It is on the expensive side. I would give it an eight out of ten in terms of costliness. In my region, the approximate cost for the Citrix SD-WAN license is around $150 per user per year. However, ...
What needs improvement with Citrix SD-WAN?
The solution's licensing model could be improved. Citrix SD-WAN is a good product from a technical point of view. However, when you compare its licensing with the prices of competitors, you will se...
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Also Known As

Citrix CloudBridge, WOC, NetScaler SD-WAN
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