Prisma SD-WAN vs. Legacy SD-WAN

Prisma SD-WAN
vs. Legacy SD-WAN

Learn why organizations choose Prisma® SD-WAN over Legacy SD-WAN solutions to securely connect their branches.

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Prisma SD-WAN provides best-in-class security and networking for branches, delivering an ROI of up to 243%

Find out how Prisma SD-WAN surpasses Legacy SD-WAN solutions to provide best-in-class security, integrated services, and automated operations.

Natively integrated security and SD-WAN

Prisma SD-WAN integrated with Prisma Access to deliver the most complete SASE solution.

Enables integrated 5G SD-WAN that provides active-active carrier redundancy
Offers CloudBlades API platform for easy integration with additional services like UCaaS, multicloud, ChatOps, and Operations applications to your branches ZTNA 2.0
Cloud-delivered branch services allow integration with zero service disruptions at branches or cloud
Prisma Access is built in the cloud to secure at cloud scale, leveraging the largest cloud providers in the world to enable elastic scale and the highest performing multi-cloud network backbone.

Significantly simplifies network operations while improving end-user experience

Prisma SD-WAN leverages artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) and Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM) to automate tedious network operations and deliver exceptional user experience.

Reduce troubleshooting tickets up to 99% by analyzing massive amounts of data, correlating events, and creating consolidated reports using AIOps and machine learning (ML)
Enable issue resolution with insights into performance at tenant, branch, circuit, device and application-level
Identify issues from the first mile to the last mile and every hop in between with ADEM
Innovate the industry’s first on-demand consumption model for SD-WAN to deliver a flexible bandwidth licensing for branches

Best-in-class security with integrated ZTNA 2.0

Prisma^® SD-WAN natively applies best-in-class security for branches.

Integrates cloud security with ML-powered threat prevention to instantly stop 95% of web-based threats inline
Enables continuous trust assessment along with deep and ongoing threat monitoring of user traffic with ZTNA 2.0
Delivers 10X more network throughput per tunnel than the nearest competitors

Compare Prisma SD-WAN to Legacy SD-WAN

Prisma SD-WAN

Legacy SD-WAN

Integration

Prisma SD-WAN

Native, best-in-class security and seamless branch service integrations

Leverage Prisma Access to deliver ZTNA 2.0, a unified SASE product with simplified management for both security and networking.
A common policy framework and data lake for both security and networking enforce consistent security and business policies regardless of apps, users and location.
Integrated 5G as primary with 4G/LTE for failover enables provider redundancy and consistent connectivity.

Legacy SD-WAN

Disparate solutions for branch services and limited security

Leverage third-party security vendors or additional point products at their cloud gateways to secure apps and users.
Disparate management solutions for security and networking impact collaboration within NOC and SOC teams.
Only supports 4G/LTE that can be used as a primary or secondary WAN link.

Performance and User Experience

Prisma SD-WAN

Exceptional end-user experience for all apps

Native ADEM optimizes the end-user experience for every user, working from home and branch.
Detailed segment-wise insights from the first to the last mile and every hop in between to troubleshoot and remediate issues proactively.
Provide granular network insights and recommendations at tenant, branch, circuit and app level with AIOps for faster resolution.

Legacy SD-WAN

Limited end-to-end visibility for apps

Zero visibility into cloud and SaaS app performance when accessed through direct internet.
Zero visibility into the middle mile (ISPs) creates significant challenges in isolating and resolving provider and circuit issues.
Lack of capability to include application performance to remediate issues.

Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) 2.0

Prisma SD-WAN

Natively integrated, best-in-class security

Enable least privilege access by identifying applications based on App-IDs at Layer 7 while continuously verifying trust and enforcing security inspection.
Consistently protect all data and secure all applications across the enterprise, including modern cloud native apps, legacy private apps and SaaS apps.

Zscaler

Secures the network, sometimes

Grants access to an app once it's trusted and continues to allow and ignore those communications forever while supporting limited coarse-grained access controls.
Uses multiple point products to implement ZTNA across device, user, applications and data trust.

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