What’s the best networking solution: Software-defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) or Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)?
Director, IT in Software, 201 - 500 employees
When I was at Samsung it was multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), but we had a different use case. We were backhauling traffic to CoLOS around the world. As you can imagine, Samsung was very old-school in the sense that when AWS was becoming the brass player, it was just magic that millennials wanted to play with. We were not allowed to use any sort of cloud infrastructure. But with that, we were able to spend a ton of money on personal area network (PAN) appliances, so I wasn't complaining.VP( Network Engineering and Delivery) in Telecommunication, 10,001+ employees
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Director of IT in Healthcare and Biotech, 501 - 1,000 employees
Overall fit of the provider's services is key in any recommendation when selecting one of the big 3 clouds for any organization. Multi-cloud is significantly more difficult than most companies realize, and selecting a ...read more
You can use the load balance with the Meraki, but it doesn't work. It takes at least a half-hour to flip it. We tried to do that at a vaping company I worked at. They sold us that “automatic flipping of your connection" feature. It does flip it, but it takes 10 minutes to recognize that the internet connection is down, first of all. Because it has to keep pinging it like, "Are you sure it's down? Because if I flip this connection, it's going to cause a bunch of problems."
That's how they sell it but every time there's an internet drop, somebody has to go and figure out how to make that switch happen.
I didn't know Velocloud did the auto-flipping. You don't have to do all the BGP and crazy quality of service (QoS) stuff.
You can write all kinds of rules into that with VeloCloud. I didn't have the same experience with CloudGenix, they couldn't flip it. It was just a different way of doing SD-WAN.