Software Defined WAN
A software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) separates the data and control plane from its hardware, virtualizing the network. As a result, WAN capabilities and control are achievable across standard Internet connectivity.
The Data Quadrant is a thorough evaluation and ranking of all software in an individual category to compare platforms across multiple dimensions.
These include:
- User Satisfaction Rankings
- Business Value Scores
- Vendor Capability Comparisons
- Product Feature Evaluations
The Emotional Footprint is a powerful indicator of overall user sentiment toward the relationship with the vendor, capturing data across five dimensions.
These include:
- Strategy and Innovation
- Service Experience
- Conflict Resolution
- Product Impact
- Negotiation and Contract
Still need assistance?
We're here to help you with understanding our reports and the data inside to help you make decisions.
Software Defined WAN Products
Cisco Systems
Cisco Meraki Enterprise Mobility Management
Unify management and control of thousands of mobile and desktop devices in the secure, browser-based Meraki dashboard. Drive your organization's mobility initiatives by seamlessly onboarding new devices and automating application of security policies.
8.6
Composite Score
8.9
CX Score
+91
Emotional Footprint
83%
Likeliness to Recommend
24
Reviews
Huawei Technologies
SD-WAN
The Huawei SD-WAN Solution provides on-demand interconnection between branches, between branches and data centers, and between branches and the cloud. It delivers the ultimate experience in enterprise interconnection through application-based intelligent traffic steering and acceleration, a full series of open uCPEs, and cloud-based visualized O&M.
8.7
Composite Score
9.0
CX Score
+91
Emotional Footprint
87%
Likeliness to Recommend
5
Reviews
Velocloud Networks Inc
VMware NSX SD-WAN
NSX SD-WAN enables the use of wired or wireless broadband Internet with or without traditional MPLS to create enterprise grade wide area networks with increased bandwidth, high performance access to cloud, service insertion and extensive network visibility.
8.1
Composite Score
8.0
CX Score
+77
Emotional Footprint
83%
Likeliness to Recommend
7
Reviews
Barracuda Networks
Barracuda NextGen / CloudGen Firewalls
Barracuda’s NextGen / CloudGen Firewalls are purpose-built to optimize network traffic flows in hybrid environments – adding intelligence that improves your network while securing it. Unlike traditional port-based firewalls, our firewalls are application-aware, enabling you to regulate application usage and prioritize network traffic.
7.8
Composite Score
7.8
CX Score
+77
Emotional Footprint
81%
Likeliness to Recommend
6
Reviews
Silver Peak Systems Inc
Silver Peak SD-WAN
A Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is a virtual WAN architecture that provides enterprises with the flexibility to leverage any combination of transport services, including broadband internet, to securely connect users to applications.
--
Composite Score
10.0
CX Score
+100
Emotional Footprint
100%
Likeliness to Recommend
1
Reviews
ZTE INC
SDN&NFV
Based on innovative distributed architecture and network service framework, the SDN Controller supports intelligent resilient automation, network resource acquisition on demand, and multi-service scenario end-to-end collaboration.
--
Composite Score
--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
Reviews
Riverbed Technology
SteelHead
Secure optimization of all applications, across hybrid networks to users everywhere so you can leverage global resources and access applications and data from anywhere.
--
Composite Score
10.0
CX Score
+100
Emotional Footprint
100%
Likeliness to Recommend
1
Reviews
Cisco Systems
Intelligent WAN
Cisco® Intelligent WAN (IWAN) is a comprehensive set of traffic control and security features for the wide-area network that have been integrated into Cisco branch-office routers. IWAN supplies you with all the business-grade capabilities of an MPLS VPN – such as quality of service (QoS), WAN optimization, and VPN tunneling – that you can put to work using less-expensive connections.
--
Composite Score
3.6
CX Score
-12
Emotional Footprint
56%
Likeliness to Recommend
1
Reviews
Citrix Systems, Inc.
Citrix SD-WAN
Whether you are a large enterprise planning a global expansion, or an SMB looking for help with new site roll-outs and migration to the cloud, simplify SD-WAN integration by partnering with a Citrix SD-WAN Managed Service Provider.
--
Composite Score
--
CX Score
+77
Emotional Footprint
56%
Likeliness to Recommend
1
Reviews
NTT America
NTT SD-WAN
NTT SD-WAN services transform the way networks are designed and built by leveraging the industry’s leading global SD-WAN platform to deliver a next generation WAN solution with application-awareness, optimized MPLS, Internet, or hybrid connectivity networking, fully integrated security and application acceleration services to optimize the user experience.
--
Composite Score
--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
Reviews
Aryaka
Aryaka Passport SD_WAN
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.
--
Composite Score
--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
Reviews
Ribbon Communications
Ribbon SD-WAN
Ribbon SD-WAN solution provides the voice, video, and business application performance across multiple WAN connections to drive customer satisfaction. End customers will have better voice quality while experiencing fewer issues.
--
Composite Score
--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
Reviews
Riverbed Technology
Ocedo SteelConnect
The solution consists of appliances and a centralized management console that the administrator uses to view network health, deploy appliances and make changes to policy. Secure connectivity is automatically established with appliances, policy is updated, and, based on real-time network health, business-critical applications always receive right-of-way.
--
Composite Score
8.8
CX Score
+100
Emotional Footprint
89%
Likeliness to Recommend
1
Reviews
Fortinet
FortiGate Secure SD-WAN
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.
--
Composite Score
5.6
CX Score
+62
Emotional Footprint
78%
Likeliness to Recommend
1
Reviews
Nuage Networks
Nuage Networks Virtualized Network Services (VNS)
Nuage Networks Virtualized Network Services (VNS) is an SD-WAN solution that offers wide area networking on your terms.
--
Composite Score
8.4
CX Score
+92
Emotional Footprint
100%
Likeliness to Recommend
1
Reviews
Mushroom Networks, Inc.
Mushroom SD-WAN
SD-WAN (Software Defined Wide Area Networking) refers to the networking solutions that are deployed primarily by multi-office enterprises and by Service Providers, to provide connectivity and additional cloud based services to branch office end-points. The SD-WAN architectures utilize cloud based SDN (Software Defined Networking) design concepts whereby the networking appliances at the edges can be easily configured, monitored and managed.
--
Composite Score
--
CX Score
+92
Emotional Footprint
67%
Likeliness to Recommend
1
Reviews
Multapplied Networks
Multapplied SD-WAN Solutions
Control and monitor every node, in every network, for every client, from a branded, multi-tenant, single pane-of-glass, so you can make global changes from virtually anywhere all managed in one place. Designed to provide you with remote access to every device in your network, giving you the unique ability to make customer configuration changes remotely. Deploy new sites, change policies, add WAN links — all in just seconds. Create Wide-Area Networks made up of multiple connections — from multiple service providers, in multiple geographies — and provide your customers with connectivity, resilience, uptime, and the best hosted application performance.
--
Composite Score
--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
Reviews
Gluware
Gluware SD-WAN Solutions
luware SD-WAN Solution is a simple approach to “unchain”-ing the enterprise from expensive bandwidth provided by carriers. Gluware provisions the existing WAN architecture to make intelligent decisions about what traffic is placed on which route. It allows high priority traffic to get the best treatment and differentiates the lower priority traffic so that cheaper bandwidth can be used.
--
Composite Score
--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
Reviews
Martello Technologies Corp
Martello SD-WAN Solution
Martello’s SD-WAN solutions transform aging networks to build an affordable, resilient WAN infrastructure across multiple circuits and VPNs for business continuity and enhanced network performance. Working together with Elfiq Central, our hardware, virtual and Cloud solutions can help safely create and maintain a powerful SD-WAN.
--
Composite Score
--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
Reviews
Ecessa Corp
Ecessa SD-WAN Solutions
Ecessa secure SD-WAN and Internet failover products make ANY business network run better. We grow with your IT needs, from ensuring reliable business Internet connectivity for a single office, through powering global enterprises with today’s most advanced networking technology: SD-WAN.
--
Composite Score
--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
Reviews
128 Technology
SD-WAN Solutions
A networking platform that’s been built from the ground up to connect your locations more efficiently, to improve the performance of your applications, to support advanced cloud and hybrid architectures – and to do it all more securely than ever before.
--
Composite Score
--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
Reviews
Oracle
Oracle Talari SD-WAN Solutions
Talari's SD-WAN solution creates a smart and responsive network, one that adapts in real time to bandwidth demand and actual network conditions, ensuring that presently and regardless of network issues, critical applications have priority and all applications take the best quality path through the network, ensuring up-time so business can get done.
--
Composite Score
--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
Reviews
Bigleaf Networks Inc
Bigleaf SD-WAN Solutions
Bigleaf’s Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technology ensures that your business-critical applications are prioritized across your Internet connections and that all traffic flows are routed over the best connection in real-time.
--
Composite Score
--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
Reviews
CATO Network
Global SD-WAN Solutions
Cato is providing a fully converged global SD-WAN with built-in network security, delivered as a cloud service. SD-WAN edge device is the enabling network infrastructure.
--
Composite Score
--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
Reviews
Mode
Mode Core
Mode Core is a cloud private network that brings flexible, affordable QoS connectivity to SD-WAN. It works side-by-side with Internet and MPLS. Moving even a small portion of traffic from MPLS can pay for an entire SD-WAN instance, with no performance impact.
--
Composite Score
--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
Reviews
Get Started With
Download Report SoftwareReviews Unlock Data Quadrant
Tell us a bit about yourself and how to reach you in order to receive your free report below, and we will be in touch about your request soon to unlock customization, then create a quadrant based on the data that matters most to you
We’ll send you a meeting invite for the date and time you choose. Please note that meeting times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).