Top Cisco SD-WAN Alternatives and Competitors
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Cisco solutions provide customers secure access with end to end visibility when connecting to cloud applications—while also reducing costs. Features such as transport independence that includes 5G helps connect businesses to the cloud, while true zero-touch provisioning simplifies setup and lowers operating costs. Cisco also offers an unmatched set of service offerings around the globe to ensure customers and partners receive the right level of support to generate a strong ROI from their deployment. Cisco SD-WAN gives customers the flexibility, visibility and control they need to ensure long-term success.
Common Features
Multiple Connection Type Support | Dynamic Routing | Load Sharing | Resilience | Simple Administration | SD-WAN Security | Quality of Service | Application Optimization
7.7
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Best Alternatives and Competitors to Cisco SD-WAN
Compare how Cisco SD-WAN stacks up to the competition in the areas that matter most to real users to short list options that will best fit your business needs.

Fortinet
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN
8.4
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+96
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58
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Compared to Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN is:
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Easier to Implement
Better at Integrating
More Transparent
More Inspiring
More Innovative
Fortinet is the only NGFW vendor to provide native SD-WAN along with integrated advanced threat protection. FortiGate SD-WAN replaces separate WAN routers, WAN optimization, and security devices with a single solution that is application-aware, offers automatic WAN path control and multi-broadband support.

Palo Alto Networks
Prisma SD-WAN
8.3
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+95
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40
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Compared to Cisco SD-WAN, Prisma SD-WAN is:
More Transparent
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More Inspiring
Better at Integrating
Easier to Implement
Worse at Support
Palo Alto Networks CloudGenix SD-WAN is the industry's first next-generation SD-WAN solution that enables the cloud-delivered branch.
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ARYAKA NETWORKS INC
Aryaka
8.2
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+95
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30
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Compared to Cisco SD-WAN, Aryaka is:
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Aryaka's global private network provides enterprises with an essential level of security, ensuring that business-critical application traffic is not exposed to the public Internet, and does not have entry points that can be exploited by threats.

VMware, Inc.
VMware SD-WAN
7.9
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Score
+96
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31
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Compared to Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN is:
More Caring
More Transparent
More Innovative
Better at Integrating
More Efficient
Better at Training
VMware SD-WAN improves upon the economics and flexibility of a hybrid WAN with the deployment speed and low maintenance of a cloud-based service. It includes policy-based, network-wide application performance, visibility and control while dramatically simplifying the WAN by delivering virtualized services from the cloud to branch offices.

Huawei
Huawei Intelligent SD-WAN
7.7
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Score
+93
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18
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Compared to Cisco SD-WAN, Huawei Intelligent SD-WAN is:
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More Efficient
More Transparent
More Respectful
Easier to Use
Worse at Support
Then Huawei SD-WAN solution leverages optimized architecture, hardware acceleration, algorithms, and NetEngine AR6000 — Huawei’s industry-leading series of SD-WAN routers — to achieve improved branch interconnection. With CloudWAN, your WANs can adapt as business needs change and overcome the rapid increase in traffic volume associated with new technologies such as cloud, AI, and 5G. Build high-performance SD-WANs that offer optimal experience, flexible networking, and simplified O&M.

Ericsson
NetCloud Exchange
7.6
Composite
Score
+89
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45
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Compared to Cisco SD-WAN, NetCloud Exchange is:
More Caring
Easier to Implement
Better at Integrating
More Reliable
Better at Training
More Transparent
NetCloud is a cloud-based subscription service that combines cloud management, software-defined networking, and unified edge security with industry-leading LTE and 5G cellular networking technology to power a portfolio of purpose-built wireless edge routers and adapters.

Aruba Networks
Aruba EdgeConnect
7.5
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Score
+94
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33
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Compared to Cisco SD-WAN, Aruba EdgeConnect is:
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More Transparent
More Efficient
More Reliable
More Respectful
Easier to Implement
Aruba Edge-to-Cloud Security for the Intelligent Edge. Full visibility, control, and enforcement with a built-in foundation for Zero Trust and SASE frameworks.

Versa Networks Inc
Versa SASE
6.8
Composite
Score
+77
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36
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Compared to Cisco SD-WAN, Versa SASE is:
Worse at Training
Worse at Support
Harder to Use
Less Efficient
Harder to Implement
Less Respectful
Versa SASE integrates a comprehensive set of services through VOS™ (Versa Operating System) delivering security, networking, SD-WAN, and analytics. Built to run in the most complex environments, Versa SASE provides the flexibility and elasticity for simple, scalable, and secure deployments. Versa SASE integrates security, networking, SD-WAN, and analytics within a single software operating system delivered via the cloud, on-premises, or as a blended combination of both.
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