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Cisco Guidance To Gartner 2019 SDWAN MQ PDF
Cisco Guidance To Gartner 2019 SDWAN MQ PDF
What are the positives for Cisco SD-WAN powered by Meraki in What advice can we offer customers who are concerned about
these reports? the report?
• Cisco SD-WAN powered by Meraki ranked among the top or middle third Be very clear. Cisco’s SD-WAN solutions are the market leading technology. No
of all WAN Edge vendors evaluated by Gartner across all use cases. competitor has successfully deployed the installed base. We remain extremely
• Specifically, Meraki ranked among the top third for the use cases of Small confident in positioning Cisco’s SD-WAN solutions. Nearly every customer who
Footprint Retail WAN and Security Sensitive WAN; and among the middle has multiple branch locations will be either evaluating or fully deploying
third for the Large Global WAN and Midsize/Regional WAN. SD-WAN this year, and we need to ensure they fully evaluate Cisco’s offer.
Why has Gartner stated that there are stability issues with Cisco IOS With new competitively-priced ISR 1100 platforms running Viptela, the Cisco
XE SD-WAN? DNA EA offers, and the richest SD-WAN portfolio in the market, now is the
time to sell our SD-WAN solution with confidence and get ahead of these
Cisco’s integration of SD-WAN software, Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN, was conversations with your customers!
launched in August 2018. Cisco acknowledges that in early deployments
for certain use cases, some customers with Cisco IOS XE experienced Emphasize the inconsistencies in the report:
stability issues. But Cisco does have customers with complex deployments, • The report doesn’t factor in the 90 percent installed base of vEdge
such as BBVA, with 1100 sites running in production, half on vEdge and half (the number 1 ranked SD-WAN solution in the market).
on ISRs. Additionally, Johnsonville Sausages just presented at ONUG 2019
• The report contradicts other Gartner reports.
about its enterprise’s live upgrade to Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN by flashing
5-year-old devices. Also highlight our unique advantages:
Why did Cisco SD-WAN powered by Meraki get a low rating for • Cisco is ranked number 1 in SD-WAN market wins by Gartner and IDC.
Application Performance?
• Cisco offers an end-to-end, multidomain, intent-based networking
Meraki doesn’t agree with Gartner on this rating or their definition of architecture, with SD-WAN being a critical part of it.
“application performance”. Meraki has been delivering strong capabilities
• Cisco is one of the only SD-WAN vendors with fully integrated enterprise
to solve real customer challenges around application performance. Meraki
security, and the Cisco Umbrella™ solution is the best in its class (Gartner
offers the majority of features defined by Gartner under application
does rate Cisco highly on this).
performance, such as WAN optimization and real-time path optimization for
VoIP through the partnerships. We believe the additional capabilities through • Cisco has the most diverse deployment options on physical, virtual, and
partnerships (e.g. Teridion) were not considered since they are not native to cloud, along with options for on-premises or cloud security.
the Meraki platform. This would be inconsistent. For example, both VMware • Cisco’s newest 1100-4G, 1100-6G and upcoming 1100-4GLTE ISR
and Silverpeak partner with third parties to offer security capabilities (also platforms maintain the vEdge architecture.
identified by Gartner as a critical capability), yet, as leaders in the MQ, their
Important resource list
partnerships did not adversely impact their positioning.
• IDC Business Study of eight Cisco SD-WAN customers.
• Gartner “SD-WAN Solution Comparison” of four top vendors.
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