Ipanema SD-WAN (discontinued) vs. Riverbed SteelHead

Ipanema WAN Optimization solution is best suited for organizations where poor application performance and application visibility are the key challenges. It is effective where most of the customer sites are in areas where bandwidth upgrade is a challenge. Centralised management of devices through Web Server makes it easy to manage & control them.

Incentivized

Riverbed Steelhead is very stable and integrates into applications easily, especially Microsoft and Azure or AWS. If there is a new Windows version available, the Riverbed version is not far away. The remote locations can work like they are located near the data center. For this reason, you can reduce your global data centers to a minimum. Some customers have just one!

Incentivized

• Dynamic WAN selection.
• Application monitoring.
• WAN optimization.
• Application performance management.
• Performance improvement.

Incentivized

• Effectively improves data throughput over VPN WAN connections.
• Seamless operation.
• Optimizes a variety of applications. Including, HTTPS, Citrix, Netapp SM and SV, Exchange, etc.

Incentivized

• SaaS Applications.
• Knowledge base on support portal.

Incentivized

• A reduction in price is always welcomed
• Simplify and streamline advanced features and add-on pieces for more detailed traffic analysis
• Getting granularity into traffic behavior becomes confusing and very expensive

Incentivized

Some of the problem areas where I feel it wasn't easy enough like troubleshooting, digging deep with packet inspection, security. But Dynamic WAN Selection based on the AQS parameters give this solution an advantage on the other products. Newly added features like cloud application performance monitoring is simplified now.

Incentivized

Customer went through multiple vendors to address their issue related to application performance and WAN performance improvement. We went into discussion with Riverbed and Ipanema. Ipanema WAN Optimization solution fulfilled their requirements as some of the features like teleengine, virtual ipbox extra are an advantage over the Riverbed solution.

Incentivized

We felt our value and price for Riverbed Steelhead blew the competition out of the water.

Incentivized

• This can improve end user experience, which leads to reduced operational cost.
• Return on Investment in 24 months.
• Centralised management of devices can ease in management of devices.

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• Files now open a lot quicker, at near local speeds.
• We are able to respond to customers quicker as we can get access quicker.

Incentivized