Name: Cisco Meraki SD-WAN
Rating: 4.6 (162 reviews)

Overview

Product Information on Cisco Meraki SD-WAN

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Cisco Meraki SD-WAN?

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN is a software solution that enables centralized management and optimization of wide area networks across multiple sites. The software streamlines network traffic by dynamically routing data over different types of connections such as MPLS, broadband, or LTE, based on real-time application and network conditions. It provides features including automated VPN connectivity, traffic analytics, application visibility, and policy-based routing to help organizations enhance network performance, ensure availability, and reduce operational complexity. Cisco Meraki SD-WAN is designed to address business challenges related to network reliability, performance optimization, and simplified administration for distributed enterprises.

Overall experience with Cisco Meraki SD-WAN

Customer Service & Support Associate

1B - 3B USD, Software

FAVORABLE

“Stable Connections and Visibility Highlighted With Reduced Management During Cloud Outages”

5.0

Nov 6, 2025

Overall experience with Cisco Meraki SD-WAN has been excellent, the product is very easy to deploy and manage especially through the Meraki cloud dashboard, it simplifies branch connectivity and provides great visibility into network traffic, and helps ensure stable and secure connections across sites

IT Associate

50M - 250M USD, Manufacturing

CRITICAL

“CISCO Meraki SD-WAN: A Look at its Woeful Cost and Limited Customization”

3.0

Sep 7, 2024

CISCO Meraki SD-WAN is highly regarded for its simplicity, scalability and cloud based management.

About Company

Company Description

Cisco is a company that specializes in networking technologies, particularly Internet Protocol (IP)-based solutions. It was established in 1984 by a group of computer scientists from Stanford University. As of today, Cisco has a global workforce, continuing to innovate in various fields, notably in routing and switching. Adding to its core business, the company also delves into emerging technologies including home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security features, storage area networking, and wireless technology. Moreover, Cisco extends its expertise to offer a sweeping range of services such as technical support and advanced services. The company sells its products and services on an enterprise level, to commercial businesses, service providers, and end-users.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

1984

Head office location

San Jose, United States

Number of employees

10001+

Annual Revenue

30B+ USD

Website

http://www.cisco.com

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Cisco Meraki SD-WAN Likes & Dislikes

The thing i like the most will be Simple cloud-based management, the dashboard is intuitive and allows centralized control of all network devices from one place, reliable performance and zero touch provisioning

Cloud based management and simplicity,

Ease of Deployment Numerous Verified Partners to work with pre and post sales Highly scaleable and easy to manage

I feel the Dependency on cloud can be a drawback , if the meraki cloud dashboard is unreachable the local management options are minimal

Cost Limited customization licensing model

Limited when it comes to advanced routing protocols Product lines are becoming defunct although that is being addressed with recent models Lack of Command Line interface access

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Market Guide for SD-WAN

1B-10B USD

Software

Review Source

Stable Connections and Visibility Highlighted With Reduced Management During Cloud Outages

Nov 5, 2025

IT ASSOCIATE

Construction

Deployment and Scalability Valued but Advanced Networking Features Remain Limited

Dec 1, 2025

Market Leader in Cloud-Managed SDWAN products, excellent enterprise support and easy-to-use product

PROJECT MANAGER

Gov't/PS/Ed

Education

Meraki Solutions Enable Connectivity in Remote Locations Without Onsite Data Centres

4.0

Feb 18, 2026

We use Meraki solution for most of the remote areas where is it hard to get fibre link from other service providers. It works well for these remote offices and we dont need to have onsite data centre and everything is in the cloud

Director Of It

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN Shows Strong Performance With Fiber

Jan 1, 2026

We have deployed Cisco Meraki SD-WAN across multiple branches to connect branches and simplity WAN management, the performance was great specially with stable internet link like fiber DIA and FTTH

50M-1B USD

IT Services

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN Offers Reliable Management for Broadcast Network Operations

Feb 8, 2026

Overall, the experience has been good. Cisco Meraki SD-WAN is reliable and easy to manage, which helps our broadcast work run smoothly.