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, Big Switch Networks, 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."
"t is very stable based on our experience and the application performance has been superb."
"The solution is pretty easy to configure."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the firewall capability. It's also got a very good graphical user interface and is very easy to manage."
"We have found the scalability to be good."
"The solution's ability to prioritize traffic is its most valuable feature."
"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."
"I think if I was to say something that could be improved, it would be a multi-data center nature of the implementation."
"The adoption of endpoint services or endpoint security should be developed in future releases."
"I would like to see more functions added to the next release of Meraki SD-WAN."
"The solution lacks a certain amount of functionality and features."
"Scalability could be improved. Yes, you can add more than 300 or 400 sites onto it, but because it's not a true SD-WAN and, effectively, it's just a Multi-VRF, it's all hub and spoke at that point. That's the nature of the design, but that's what keeps it simple to administer. So, it's a trade off."
"People are struggling a little bit with the lead times right now. It’s hard to actually get the hardware."
"The solution is scalable for mid-tier deployments, but not for major ones."
"The product could be improved by being made more simple to use. We had some issues integrating our MPLS with Meraki SD-WAN."
"The solution could be improved if it added more features, especially monitoring and reporting features."
Big Switch Networks is ranked 3rd 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, APCON, Cisco SD-WAN, Ixia Network Packet Brokers and Cumulus Networks, 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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