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Cisco Meraki SD-WAN

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What is Cisco Meraki SD-WAN?

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN is a cloud-managed solution that simplifies and secures wide area networking across branch, campus, and remote locations. Built on Meraki’s dashboard, it delivers centralized visibility, automation, and traffic optimization without the complexity of traditional WAN deployments. The solution improves application performance by dynamically routing traffic based on real-time conditions, integrating advanced security, and providing seamless multicloud connectivity. With support for hybrid WAN, direct-to-cloud paths, and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architectures, Meraki SD-WAN enables organizations to reduce costs, enhance user experience, and securely scale networks to meet modern business demands. Trusted by enterprises and small businesses alike, it combines zero-touch provisioning, centralized policy management, and continuous monitoring into a flexible platform designed for the cloud-first era.

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Robert DuvallView profile
President in Information Technology at Robert Duvall Consulting Inc (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN is an ideal solution for clients who require flexible, remote network management—especially when time is critical. In today’s fast-paced environment, unexpected technology challenges are common. The cloud-based architecture of Meraki SD-WAN provides the agility and responsiveness our clients need to adapt quickly. That’s why it remains the top choice for organizations seeking reliable, scalable, and easily programmable networking solutions from anywhere in the world. Meraki.

Pros

  • Failover alerts that tell IT that there is a carrier down or system issue.
  • Immediate programing of firewall rules.
  • Event logs for troubleshooting.

Cons

  • One improvement would be more granular alerts for client tracking.

Return on Investment

  • I can provide immediate monitoring and assistance to clients.

Alternatives Considered

Grandstream GAC2500

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Lenovo Flex System Blade Servers, Yealink Conference Phones

Less onsite intervention

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Verified User
Team Lead in Professional Services (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Easy to deploy, Zero Touch Provisioning for real, Easy to manage, great visibility. I am a network architect and I can see the pre and post sales of the solutions, I can see the benefit in use cases like Retail and multi branch/site reality. It can reduce the cost of expensive connectivity like MPLS, in many cases an MPLS line is not needed considering the huge improvements that the internet connections reached.

Pros

  • Easy to Deploy
  • Zero Touch Provisioning for real
  • Easy to manage
  • great visibility

Cons

  • On the logs visibility, for example to understand which security policies are matched
  • playing around with the nat on overlay tunnels
  • Cisco SASE solution is not very well integrated

Return on Investment

  • Less onsite intervention or reduced at minimum so less transfer costs. I would estimate at 40% due to the dashboard visibility.
  • Generally speaking less hands on hence less costs due to the professional services, in my opinion reduced than 30% to 40% It depends on the scenario.
  • Less licenses costs compared with other competitors due the inclusion of the minimum features on SD-WAN functionalities

Alternatives Considered

Fortinet FortiGate

Other Software Used

Cisco Secure Connect, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Webex Meetings, Cisco ThousandEyes

Meraki SD-WAN Review

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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's our SD-WAN, or used to be our SD-WAN, so it connects all of our locations.

Pros

  • I guess simplicity of setup and simplicity of making changes is a good thing, but by and large we've migrated away from it.
  • I guess simplicity of setup and simplicity of making changes is a good thing, but by and large we've migrated away from it.
  • We've migrated off of it to Aruba

Cons

  • Reliability. We would have tunnels just drop for no reason and we'd have to switch between head ends to make it work again and then for no reason it would just start working again.

Return on Investment

  • It caused a lot of trouble for us on a somewhat regular basis to the extent that we finally had to replace it.

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN Review

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Rashid Aliheydarov
Network Administrator in Information Technology at Veyseloglu LLC (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used 1,500 markets with Cisco Meraki SD-WAN and right now it is working. 1,500 market use. Actually, we have no problems right now.

Pros

  • Particularly we have managed centralized and it's comfortable for us for administration. That's all.

Cons

  • Actually, no, it's everything. Perfect.

Return on Investment

  • Positive. It's work great. Negative. We have problem with version of Cisco Meraki devices and after upgraded to everything is okay, this one negative what we have.

Alternatives Considered

CheckPoint

Other Software Used

CheckPoint

Review

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abdelali hammadi
director transformation digitale in Information Technology at domaines (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

to consolidate internet links

pour consolider les liens internet

Pros

  • Optimize bandwidth
  • secure connections
  • others
  • Opti;user la bande passante
  • securiser les connexions
  • autres

Cons

  • headquarters link management
  • others
  • gestion des liens du siege
  • autres

Return on Investment

  • optimized management
  • others
  • gestion optimisee
  • autres

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