Two different vendor, two different product comparison. having said that cisco also provide SD-WAN solution. however, to answer your question. Cisco Firepower, equipped with DVTI and PBR, offers routing capabilities and certain traffic management features, it falls short in delivering the extensive functionality of Fortinet SD-WAN. Fortinet SD-WAN is specifically designed to meet the needs of organizations seeking to enhance and safeguard their wide area network connectivity. It provides a purpose-built solution that combines optimization and security features in a comprehensive manner. Fortinet SD-WAN is a comprehensive solution designed specifically for software-defined wide area networking.Fortinet SD-WAN unifies network routing and security capabilities within a single solution. It provides centralized management, application-aware routing, intelligent traffic steering, and seamlessly integrates essential security features like firewall, VPN, and threat detection.
On the other hand Cisco Firepower encompasses advanced security functionalities such as intrusion prevention, next-generation firewall capabilities, and threat intelligence, DVTI and PBR focus primarily on network routing and traffic management aspects but cisco Firepower does provide routing and PBR.
In short to summarise, depends what is the requirement, what is the budget and what offer you getting from the vendor and what skill-set you already have and which vendor you feel comfortable with. SD-WAN and Firewall can go hand in hand but again these two technology build for each specific use where SD-WAN can fit in then might firewall wont fit in. For Example, if you have 100 branches world wide/country wide make sense to implment SD-WAN solution service chaining, firewall insertion here you maximumise the both technolgoies hand in hand.
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