Which SD-WAN do you prefer and why?
-
Cisco Viptella? Silver Peak? Meraki? Citrix? Vmware VeloCloud? Cloudgenix? Riverbed?
what do you guys think and why? Experiences?
-
@ysapir said in Which SD-WAN do you prefer and why?:
Cisco Viptella? Silver Peak? Meraki? Citrix? Vmware VeloCloud? Cloudgenix? Riverbed?
what do you guys think and why? Experiences?
Listening to our network folks, I'd carefully think stuff through before saying "yes" to Citrix and Meraki.
-
@EddieJennings agree . I see meraki as a SDWAN Lite and Citrix I have been leery of for a while now. Seems that they are les of a presence in the past few years.
-
We're a Citrix / Meraki / Cisco shop. I believe the equipment itself works pretty well, but listening to the cubes around me as they deploy SD-WAN at some sites, there is grumbling and gnashing of teeth. I think their frustrations are caused by a variety of things, not solely because of the equipment.
-
@EddieJennings are you guys installing all that yourselves? or utilizing a specialist partner?
-
@ysapir said in Which SD-WAN do you prefer and why?:
@EddieJennings are you guys installing all that yourselves? or utilizing a specialist partner?
Ourselves + some contractors. Mind you I'm not on the Network team, so all I have to offer you is what I overhear. I do know we maintain support contracts with Citrix and Cisco should stuff go wrong.
-
We tested Meraki and the hardware was underpowered, we were looking to use the MX64 and MX84 as at our smaller locations but the VPN performance back to the HO was garbage. If you're just looking for SD-WAN it might be OK, but overall they left me with the impression of having lots of sizzle and not enough steak.
-
@notverypunny said in Which SD-WAN do you prefer and why?:
We tested Meraki and the hardware was underpowered, we were looking to use the MX64 and MX84 as at our smaller locations but the VPN performance back to the HO was garbage. If you're just looking for SD-WAN it might be OK, but overall they left me with the impression of having lots of sizzle and not enough steak.
That surprises me not at all. VPN and/or QoS tend to bring any reasonably priced hardware device to it's knees.
The best SD-WAN product I've used is ZeroTier. No special hardware involved.
-
ZeroTier is meant as SD-LAN but can be used as SD-WAN.
-
Are vendors like Meraki doing anything more than a traditional VPN site to site setup? I don't normally think of vendors like that in conjunction with SD-WAN.
