Equinix Fabric comparisons
Equinix Fabric is compared head-to-head with Cloudflare WAN (formerly Magic WAN), Alkira and OpenStack Neutron and more: 7 head-to-heads in Cloud Network Management Software, each with the specs and prices we checked.
Equinix Fabric head-to-head
- Equinix Fabric vs Cloudflare WAN (formerly Magic WAN)
- Equinix Fabric vs Alkira
- Equinix Fabric vs OpenStack Neutron
- Equinix Fabric vs Tailscale
- Equinix Fabric vs ZeroTier
- Equinix Fabric vs PacketFabric
- Equinix Fabric vs F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud
Equinix Fabric vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Multicloud support | Deployment model | VPN management | Firewall policy management | Network monitoring | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Equinix Fabric | No | Yes | Saas | No | No | Yes | 8.6 | |
| 1 | Cloudflare WAN (formerly Magic WAN) | Yes | Hybrid | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9.2 | ||
| 2 | Alkira | Yes | Saas | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.8 | ||
| 4 | OpenStack Neutron | Free | Hybrid | 8.3 | |||||
| 5 | Tailscale | Yes | $8/user/mo | Yes | Saas | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.2 |
| 6 | ZeroTier | Yes | Yes | Hybrid | Yes | Yes | No | 8.0 | |
| 7 | PacketFabric | No | Yes | Saas | Yes | Yes | 7.8 | ||
| 8 | F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud | No | Hybrid | 7.6 |
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