SDWAN Cisco vs Fortinet

[boythanhdat_2012]

Hi community,

Can you tell me about pros/cons of cisco sdwan when comparing Fortinet?

With fortinet sdwan, we have free license. No subscription such as cisco, vmware, paloalto. So difficult to competing about price with fortinet.

Thanks!

[Flavio Miranda]

Hi

 One problem I tell you about Fortinet or any other non-cisco solution, there´s no profissional on the market and documentation is pretty poor. From the management perspective, this is complicated.

[boythanhdat_2012]

Uhm. I dont think so. Fortinet have online library and community also.

Almost customers tell Fortinet is very friendly. 

Focus about sdwan solution, do you have any ideas about advantages of cisco?

[neelrupani3179]

Fortinet SD-WAN : ease of deployment , straight away deployment , policy design is easy, so mean while control and troubleshooting is easy.

Cisco SD-WAN : I agree well designed mechanism , with vmanage , vbond  but it is tough little bit to manage compare to fortigate required qualified resources to manage that structure .

[Kanan Huseynli]

One friend from Forti TAC (former engineer) said that it is like DMVPN (afaik, ADVPN is called in Forti) with a bit SLA based path selection, so it is not "true sdwan".

One time I researched almost all main SD-WAN solutions, what I have seen in Cisco it is rich of deep routing with centralized policy. However, architecture is a bit difficult to understand (different controllers, controller to router and router to router operations, new overlay protocol OMP, its mechanism, TLOC etc.). You should be good at in routing/VRF based networking to understand Cisco overlay routing and operations.