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Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued) vs. Symantec MACH5

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Silver Peak's WAN Optimization brand and appliances were discontinued after the company's acquisition in 2020 by HPE. Similar capabilities are supplied now under HPE's Aruba brand.N/A
Symantec MACH5
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Symantec MACH5, formerly from Blue Coat, is presented as a WAN Optimization solution that accelerates application performance, improves user experience and saves bandwidth for today’s business, cloud and web applications.N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)Symantec MACH5
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)Symantec MACH5
Considered Both Products
Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
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 …
Symantec MACH5

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Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
Cisco Routers
Cisco Routers
Score 9.0 out of 10
Cisco Routers
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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User Ratings
Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)Symantec MACH5
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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Support Rating
8.0
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User Testimonials
Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)Symantec MACH5
Likelihood to Recommend
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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pablo baylac
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Pros
  • WAN Acceleration.
  • Improves application performance.
  • Reduce bandwidth costs.
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Cons
  • 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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Support Rating
They need to improve their Spanish communication.
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pablo baylac
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Alternatives Considered
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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Return on Investment
  • 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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