Meraki SD-WAN vs Prisma SD-WAN comparison

"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."

"The dashboard is user-friendly. It's very simple to use."

"The most valuable feature of Meraki SD-WAN is its user-friendly interface."

"The solution has many features available."

"t is very stable based on our experience and the application performance has been superb."

"They're known for their ease of use and ubiquitous management platform that covers everything. Meraki really excels in plug-and-play solutions. You just plug it up, and everything works. All of the components—the firewall/router, the switches, the access points, the cameras—work very nicely together, and they all can be managed from one platform. That is probably their biggest selling point. Everything comes in one ubiquitous package, and you don't have to manage different components from different platforms. You can see everything from one platform."

"If there are multiple network connectivities in an organization, Meraki creates an AutoVPN. It creates a channel automatically."

"We have found the scalability to be good."

"Prisma SD-WAN is intuitive. We have a better idea of the different tools we can use and jump between the menus quickly."

"When it comes to supporting large, complex, network architectures, it's a very simple architecture. The main component is the fabric. It's very easy to troubleshoot if there is an issue happening in the underlying network."

"The product provides efficient stability, security, and reliability features."

"I like the link monitoring and analytics. These are the features that set Prisma apart from other products. Prisma works well with large, complex networks. One of my clients is a top bank in the United States, and Prisma has performed well for that customer."

"The gateway is available on the cloud which allows you access from anywhere and still connects to your home gateway."

"Prisma's analytics provide a lot of valuable data. I like the internet health chart that shows latency, dropped packets, MOS for data quality, etc. It also runs a continuous speed test in the background. I've used it multiple times to troubleshoot internet connections when the service provider has attempted to claim nothing is wrong with the circuit. It gives me data to send them showing we're not getting the speed we should, or there is constant packet loss."

"Prisma SD-WAN is recommended due to its comprehensive capabilities."

"Prisma supports all of the applications we're currently using."

"There are literally things you cannot do at this point in a graphical user interface that can be done from a command line."

"This vendor has issues with the supply chain that need to be improved."

"In some cases, like an Internet outage, this can make the solution unmanageable."

"With Meraki, it's more of a basic connectivity. It doesn't have all the feature sets that a Cisco SD-WAN solution has. It's limited."

"A run optimization feature is needed to reduce the bandwidth for any uploaded content."

"Some advanced networking features are not currently available in the Meraki product but are on their roadmap."

"The solution lacks controllers."

"In Meraki SD-WAN, we have some limitations with the traffic shaping capabilities."

"Event correlation and analysis capabilities do not help minimize the number of alarms from a single event. That is the problem. We are getting a lot of incidents, and there is some issue with the correlation. That is still a drawback."

"The solution should include custom ports and group voice connections."

"If Palo Alto could open the platform to manage other SD-WANs, it would be beneficial."

"The only con is the pricing because it's more premium."

"Prisma SD-WAN can be built on top of a couple of hardware platforms, including the Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewall or the CloudGenix infrastructure."

"I would also like to see improvement in the product training for customers. Palo Alto has not initiated very much training but they have to do so because this is a new product. If you have experience in a legacy environment, and you are moving to Prisma SD-WAN, you don't have a training framework. That is one of the disadvantages."

"I'd like to see them move more towards CASB."

"Customer support is our biggest pain point. The quality of support has gone down a little since we initially deployed this product. I don't know if this is due to turnover at Palo Alto or a lack of training. It is now taking one or two days to get an initial response that says, "Hey, we've looked into this, can you pull this data for us?" In the past, we'd immediately get a response."

"The license model may need improvement."

"Any license you buy until January 2021 gets you an extra year for that purchase."

"The price can vary depending on the challenges that you need to address. When you look at the stability and reliability against the price, you absolutely get the value for the price."

"They have a baseline software license, and then they've got an SD-WAN software license, and then they've got an advanced security software license. They're low cost, and they'll provide any amount of flexibility that you want from a modeling perspective for payment. Typically, it's either annually or multi-year, but they are a lower-cost company. They're not the most expensive by far."

"Pricing is a significant concern for me. Amongst all the firewall brands, Cisco is one of the most expensive options. Despite its reputation and security features, many customers opt for other brands, such as SonicWall because of their lower prices. These other brands offer similar features to Cisco but at a lower cost. Cisco's pricing is something that could be improved to attract more customers. The brand has a good reputation, but when it comes to budgeting and pricing, it is not always the first choice."

"One of the most valuable aspects of Meraki SD-WAN is the price. It is highly cost-effective."

"From the perspective of the customer, the price is not terribly cost-effective."

"I am not aware of the licensing fees."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

"If you're already invested in a Palo Alto product, it would be logical to use this solution. If not, there might be some other solutions that are more viable in terms of pricing."

"This solution stood out because it cost considerably less than the other SD-WAN solutions out there from Cisco."

"Prisma SD-WAN is a pretty expensive solution."

"It is more expensive than Fortinet."