We performed a comparison between Meraki SD-WAN and Prisma 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)."The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is application performance monitoring and being able to browse packets dynamically based on priorities."
"The most interesting feature is the amount of information you can get from overseeing the system from a centralized place."
"The most valuable feature is application awareness."
"In my experience, Meraki is very easy, simple, and clear to set up and use."
"Meraki SD-WAN is a scalable solution because changes are being made to the solution, enabling it to work in different environments."
"Because it's a cloud-based network infrastructure, everything is done in the cloud, so I don't need to be on-site physically to be able to troubleshoot or resolve an issue. I can be anywhere and resolve an issue."
"This is a high availability solution that is easy to configure and has a nice GUI."
"It is flexible to use the internet connection via local breakouts without going to data centers."
"If the MPLS goes down, there is a really smooth transition for a branch site to take traffic over the Internet. It will advertise the routes of that site in a jiffy."
"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I like that the integration with Palo Alto is easy."
"Prisma SD-WAN is intuitive. We have a better idea of the different tools we can use and jump between the menus quickly."
"An area for improvement would be to add 4G bonding and allow Meraki devices to support dual 4G SIM cards."
"I would like to see more functions added to the next release of Meraki SD-WAN."
"Overall, we are satisfied with the support, although I cannot state this unequivocally."
"People are struggling a little bit with the lead times right now. It’s hard to actually get the hardware."
"The deployment time of Meraki SD-WAN can vary. For someone new to the process, it could take a couple of hours. However, for someone with hands-on experience, such as myself, it only takes approximately two to three hours to set up the entire configuration."
"There are literally things you cannot do at this point in a graphical user interface that can be done from a command line."
"There should be a few more options for security parameters. It is currently not very customizable. It should be a little bit more customizable."
"The default classes should be expanded."
"Prisma SD-WAN's technical support should be improved."
"I'd like to see them move more towards CASB."
"Prisma SD-WAN should provide more flexibility and scalability on the hardware."
"We are incorporating their zone-based firewalls. Prisma SD-WAN has limited documentation on how it manipulates traffic, e.g., how it is interacting with TCP and UDP. We recently had some traffic that was black holing. We literally had to do packet captures to see that the new zone-based firewall, which runs on top of Prisma SD-WAN, was causing issues."
"The only con is the pricing because it's more premium."
"Prisma could be a little cheaper."
"There are two parallel things that we want Palo Alto to work on. First, customers want a unified appliance that does the work of all firewalls in addition to SD-WAN. Second, the cloud presence should be completely automated. If I purchase the SASE architecture, I shouldn't worry about deployments in Prisma Access or on Prisma SD-WAN. It should be deployed in one go."
"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."
Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 61 reviews while Prisma SD-WAN is ranked 6th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 12 reviews. Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.2, while Prisma SD-WAN is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Meraki SD-WAN writes "Very stable security, great service, and the best for VPN management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prisma SD-WAN writes "A stable tool that offers a good uptime and ensures a return on investment". Meraki SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Omada Cloud SDN, Cradlepoint NetCloud and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform, whereas Prisma SD-WAN is most compared with Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform and VMware SD-WAN.
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