Riverbed SteelHead vs. Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)

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!

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It works fantastic when you want to reduce network cost and get the same result than with an MPLS. It's less appropriate for big companies with a lot of small sites.

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

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• WAN Acceleration.
• Improves application performance.
• Reduce bandwidth costs.

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• 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

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• Managing more and more routers can add complexity with templates.
• Documentation around internal routing protocol they use is confusing.
• Boost add-on was oversold by pre-sales team and not helpful during testing.

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They need to improve their Spanish communication.

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

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We currently have almost all Cisco Meraki and would have loved to keep the product portfolio the same. Silver Peak was far cheaper and offered far more features. A lot of our evaluation showed that NGFW offers SD-WAN but it is not a full-featured deployment. Silver Peak is by and large better at being able to use both links at once, offer failover, QoS, and central reporting.

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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.

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• Able to get rid of MPLS
• No more router hardware costs
• Able to use both WAN links instead of one being only failover

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