#1 most frequent
United States of America
55.5%1,812 installations of 3,265
What is Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN?
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN is a software-defined wide area network solution designed to simplify and optimize enterprise network connectivity in complex digital landscapes. It enables organizations to connect any user to any application, whether on-premises, in data centers, or across multiple clouds, with integrated capabilities for multicloud support, security, predictive automation, and enhanced network visibility—all built on a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)-enabled architecture.
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Who Buys & Uses Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
5.8%189 installations of 3,265
#3 most frequent
Canada
4.6%150 installations of 3,265
Pros
- Centralized network management for standardized operations and efficient configuration.
- Simplified and efficient deployments, particularly for WAN spokes.
- Significant cost reductions by leveraging dual internet connections and reducing telecom expenses.
Cons
- User Interface and configuration difficulties, including template management.
- Challenges with system responsiveness.
- Issues related to routing and failover handling, such as network transitions and route leaking.
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Used for connectivity between all of our locations, branches, data centers and cloud environments.
We were able to remove expensive private line circuits, provide more bandwidth to our locations and reduce outages.
We use this product at 60 offices, 2 data centers and 4 cloud environments.
We were able to remove expensive private line circuits, provide more bandwidth to our locations and reduce outages.
We use this product at 60 offices, 2 data centers and 4 cloud environments.
Pros
- Reduces cost
- Improve reliability
- Ease of use
- Increased flexibility
Cons
- GUI slowness, failures, formatting
- Licensing
- Lack of CLI
Return on Investment
- Over $1M saved anually
- 50X increase in bandwidth
- Fewer mistakes due to automation
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN
Other Software Used
Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Citrix Gateway, Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
we use Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN for branch connectivity. solves issues with multiple transports and load balancing, adds resiliency.
Pros
- user experience
- branch redundancy
- ease of configuration
Return on Investment
- reduced telecom costs
Usability
Cisco SD-WAN - Clearly a Leader
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN to centralise configuration and to optimise specific applications across our WAN. It helps us roll out new sites with speed and agility and to perform hardware replacements easily.
Pros
- Optimisation of applications
- Centralised provisioning
- Load balancing
Cons
- VAnaytics is great but the interface lacks
Return on Investment
- Measurable transport of data
- Monitoring of transport interfaces
- Configuration consistency
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN rv
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN primarily for centralized management and to enforce standardized configurations across all sites. The solution helps address challenges with operational consistency, simplifies change management, and ensures that our global network can be managed efficiently from a single platform
Pros
- Centralized Management & Policy Control
- Security Integration
Cons
- Complexity of Initial Setup and Design
- Learning Curve for vManage
Return on Investment
- Reduced operational costs
- Improved application performance
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Cisco Catalyst Center
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I guess for the intent of it was just to centralize the management as the network scales. Like we used to just send out templates for things and now it's just an easier way to standardize everything across the board, whether they're local or remote.
Pros
- I think it does pretty well of tying in multiple transports, allowing you to build a template and baseline for multiple, I guess lack of better term sites, so simplified deployments, stuff like that.
Cons
- We're still trying to figure out how to make it work. Some issues that we were running into is just like the user interface. A good example is your configuration templates and deployment groups. Making a group for a specific thing. I'm not trying to get too much into specifics, but you would have a group for remote sites say that one remote site has some sort of requirement that a site, another site may not have a requirement, but if I make a CLI configuration change in that template, it applies to all the templates. So maybe something that didn't apply to that certain site. I don't need it deployed across all sites. So I think a really cool thing would be, if you have multiple devices in one group, maybe it would be good to, if I were able to select which sites would receive the change versus hey, I'm going to make a site that applies, make a change that applies to one site. I don't want to deploy to all sites or have that become part of the template. It was just the one case scenario.
Return on Investment
- I can't really comment on ROI because I'm not really the ROI kind of guy. It was just the more technical guy.
