We performed a comparison between Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform, FortiCache [EOL], and Steelhead based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about HPE Aruba Networking, Cato Networks, Riverbed and others in WAN Optimization."It is a scalable solution."
"Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect has high availability."
"The most valuable feature is the support for asymmetric lines."
"The most valuable feature of Silver Peak VX is the overall performance."
"The tool is easy to configure due to the existing pre-configured templates. It is easy to manage compared to legacy systems, which takes time. We can complete a site within 30 minutes. The tool's best feature is outdoor onboarding. You need to bring the box to the site with the internet. It is a simple plug-and-play. The solution offers a zero-touch procedure."
"The file and data reduction capabilities are very good. Without it, we have a great deal of network congestion."
"At the moment, for us, it is a very good solution because it has all the features we need and it is not so expensive."
"We had several clients that were paying $7,500 a month for an MPLS line for one single 10 megabit circuit and we were able to take that from $7,500 a month down to $500 a month for two 10 megabits circuits that added redundancy where before they did not have redundancy and it gave them a much better throughput."
"I like the traffic monitoring because it meets the firewall protocols."
"It has a nice graphic interface and it is easy to find information about effectively using the product because of the large user-base."
"We think it's a good solution for cloud security, where one has hybrid cloud. They have different cloud solutions like a Office 365 or Azure or Amazon. This is a good solution to control all the different cloud solutions you have in your family of hybrid clouds, from one panel. This is what the main feature we look for."
"The most valuable feature of Steelhead is its optimization capabilities."
"The compression of Riverbed is very powerful. It can also handle large quantities of traffic."
"SteelHead works from the application. I use it to optimize traffic from Amazon. It is mainly used for customers who need to increase the traffic to 33K. For other users, it has been more of an operation."
"Steelhead is stable, and it can even help you avoid service interruption in the event of a power outage. If your hardware fails, technical support will replace your device quickly."
"It is very easy to install the solution."
"One of our most valuable features is Steelhead's cloud migration optimization. Moving to the cloud helped optimize our workflow, improving performance for end-users."
"The connectivity to speed is the valuable feature."
"I find the most valuable to be the compression and exchange replication."
"The support, which is the direct support from Aruba, has shortcomings and needs to be improved."
"Reporting is something that they can improve on."
"They have to implement more security with it. The security, mainly their firewall functions, have to be included in the firewall features."
"Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform’s stability and technical features need improvement."
"The support from Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect has declined since Aruba acquired them. The knowledge and speed of the agents could improve."
"Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform needs to improve integrations with other vendors."
"I expect automation in the Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform's next release."
"The security can be improved, with the firewall for example, because they supply a basic one but not a UTM."
"Sometimes when using high availability, the second firewall does not come up immediately if the first one goes down."
"It should be set up more specifically so that I only pay for what I want."
"However, we would like them to add more integrations. We would appreciate a more open solution. They're quite good when you have the entire Fortinet ecosystem, but otherwise it's not as good of a solution."
"Application response time and network performance could be improved."
"If we load a primary firewall, the secondary firewall usually handles all the active connections, but in Riverbed, this isn't the case. We lose all the active connections at the moment of failure."
"The product should offer more integration capabilities."
"Steelhead's handling of encrypted traffic could be improved because it requires some complex configuration to optimize encrypted traffic, especially when working with Microsoft protocols for mail servers and VPN services"
"The application response time of the solution can be improved."
"One area for improvement is related to monitoring and visibility."
"I would like to see improvement in the solution’s configuration and protocol aspects. We have got some configurations that are not set. I would also like to simplify the call detection of some protocols."
"They should include a network switch in a future release."
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