We performed a comparison between Huawei Enterprise Routers and VMware SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two WAN Edge solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product’s technical support team is responsive."
"The product is good, easy to manage , and works fine."
"The setup is simple."
"The solution offers good customer support and good performance."
"I have been able to connect the solution to many platforms such as Windows, Apple, and Android."
"It's simple to use and offers good connectivity."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei Enterprise Routers is if have two networks at different geographical locations with a great deal of distance they work together as if they are on the same cloud network."
"It is a robust and efficient solution."
"Increases the performance of applications and is easy to deploy."
"The biggest feature is called D.M.P.O., or Dynamic Multipath Optimization, which is one of the technologies that they use to deliver or ensure data integrity."
"VMware has been chosen by many of our customers who do not want to do a lot of complex routing in their environment and want a very easy-to-use solution. The most valuable features are simple troubleshooting, Dynamic Multipath Optimization (DMPO), and cybersecurity."
"I find the application-aware routing feature to be the most valuable."
"In my experience, the setup process has been fairly straightforward."
"It is fairly similar to other solutions. It has the capability for testing link connectivity, which is its unique feature from a control perspective."
"The most valuable feature is load balancing."
"The most valuable feature is the Dynamic Multipath Optimization (DMPO), which allows the customer to maintain and monitor their link quality in real-time."
"In my country we don't have Huawei technology, we only have Huawei routers for ISP. There is no agent for Huawei in Egypt."
"We have found we have to restart the routers or reconfigured them a lot of the time, this issue should improve. The quality of the hardware needs to be more durable."
"Lacks sufficient market availability."
"Essentially, they need to open their licensing model such that when a customer buys a device, they have a full view of all of the available licenses for it."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see better bandwidth management, more granular web filtering, and portal authentication."
"The internet speed reduces throughout the day. The tool is not stable."
"The product's pricing could be better."
"They should include features like IPS for security and response."
"In an upcoming release, the solution can be more functional and have additional features."
"Some of the service providers that use VeloCloud as their SD-WAN should be enabled to have better global visibility."
"There should be more automation and self-service features."
"Security is a challenge. I would like to see VMware add things like IPS, IDS, and web filtering. These features are the future of security, and most competing firewalls have them."
"If you don't have an Internet connection, you can’t control it."
"They need to start focusing on the security functionality. They should find a way to embed the next-generation firewall functionality within the architecture. They should move more into applying SASE tenants to what they're doing."
"VMware SD-WAN is harder than Cisco. It is complex, and we must take many steps to get the service. I think it would be beneficial if obtaining licenses could be simplified. Currently, numerous options and integrations are bundled together, which can make it quite complex."
"The initial setup of VMware SD-WAN was simple. However, it took six days to complete."
Huawei Enterprise Routers is ranked 8th in WAN Edge with 24 reviews while VMware SD-WAN is ranked 4th in WAN Edge with 51 reviews. Huawei Enterprise Routers is rated 7.8, while VMware SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Huawei Enterprise Routers writes "A stable and easy-to-manage solution with good security and firewalls". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SD-WAN writes "To fully utilize cloud vendors' hardware networking, Microsoft and VMware support everything". Huawei Enterprise Routers is most compared with MikroTik Routers and Switches, Cisco Enterprise Routers, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper MX Series Routers and Cisco Cloud Services Router, whereas VMware SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform. See our Huawei Enterprise Routers vs. VMware SD-WAN report.
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