Exinda vs Ipanema IpIengine comparison

GFI and Ipanema Technologies are both solutions in the WAN Optimization category. GFI is ranked #5, while Ipanema Technologies is ranked #10. Additionally, 87% of GFI users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Ipanema Technologies users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 10, 2024

Exinda and Ipanema IpIengine are two network performance optimization solutions competing in the market. Users find Ipanema IpIengine superior in features and deployment ease, while Exinda stands out in pricing and support.

Features: Exinda is praised for its robust traffic management, real-time monitoring capabilities, and straightforward deployment. Ipanema IpIengine stands out for dynamic application management, powerful analytics, and advanced network optimization, making it popular among users for comprehensive network improvement.

Room for Improvement: Exinda users highlight the need for a more intuitive configuration process, enhanced reporting, and better integration with other systems. Ipanema users suggest improvements in integration with other systems, easier troubleshooting tools, and a simpler deployment process. Users of both products feel these updates are necessary; however, Exinda's configuration complexities are more pressing.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Exinda users appreciate its straightforward deployment but report occasional difficulties with customer support responsiveness. Ipanema IpIengine users find deployment slightly more complex but commend the responsive and helpful customer service, offsetting the complexity of the deployment process.

Pricing and ROI: Exinda is noted for its competitive pricing and solid ROI, offering a cost-effective solution. Ipanema IpIengine, despite its higher upfront costs, provides substantial ROI through enhanced performance and advanced features. Users believe Ipanema’s higher price is justified by its capabilities.

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Dean Barisic

CTO at PlayNirvana

Advanced security reporting has protected high-traffic betting platforms from constant attacks

I don't see room for improvement to Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. One thing I don't know much about because we have a dedicated IT team for that, and I'm not involved with Cloudflare much anymore. But if I were to compare them to F5, I would like to see more features that F5 offers. F5 has an option to bring the whole infrastructure, the whole WAF and all their packages, Bot Management, and everything else on your infrastructure. You need to install certain services from their side, and then you can choose if you would like requests to hit your servers immediately or if requests need to be proxied through F5 backbone. That would be a nice addition because we have 90% of the traffic as legit traffic coming from whitelisted servers. If it comes from whitelisted servers, I don't need to go every request through the backbone; I could easily just IP whitelist everything. Then I could maybe have Bot Management on my infrastructure that drastically reduces the price of Cloudflare. I would like to see Push CDN more improved in the next release of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. And maybe something similar to Pushpin that Fastly has, which is an option where you can push messages that then can be scaled globally over the network. From our perspective, if we have a listener that listens for stock updates, I would just need to have one processor that pushes those updates to the Cloudflare API, and then Cloudflare would broadcast that message to all listeners. Cloudflare will check the order of the message, and if you, as a customer, are not connected or have some kind of network issue, when you reconnect, you will receive the latest state and missing updates.

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Marek Jaworski

Senior Engineer, Team Lead, Network Operations at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Allows us to have better control over our network by shaping traffic more gently

There might be room for improvement in the speed and throughput of some of their devices. They're getting a bit slow on some of the bigger devices. It would be helpful if there were some sort of an ISP model. Also, while I don't think it would be possible for them to do, it would be better if they had the Citrix support and the visualization to visualize your network. Besides that, it fits its purpose as a shaper and accelerator. Some people would say things like, "Add a firewall to it," but I disagree. I think a firewall's a firewall, and Exinda's a shaper and accelerator.

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it_user143973

IT Systems Admin at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We tried KPN for 1 year, but ROI is not practical. Huge differences with IPANEMA.

WAN Acceleration Unlike other firewall and internet accelerator network device, it has its own IPS/IDS built in. Well improved performance. Acceleration and ACL (Access control list), IPS/IDS. Since January 2014 None There was an issue in regards to Heartbleed case and Orange Business service…

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Caching is the most valuable feature of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall."

"This solution does a good job of preventing web application attacks, SQL injections, and cross-site scripting attacks."

"Cloudflare WAF provides protection through rules and functionalities like Cloudflare's SDRAP."

"I have not had any issues with this solution, and I would recommend it to others who are interested in using it."

"The solution protects our application, which runs on the HTTP protocol, from DDoS attacks."

"It's pretty convenient and pretty easy to set up and run. And then kind of for static content, it also offers caching."

"The stability of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall deserves a perfect 10 out of 10."

"We like that there's load balancing, firewall capabilities, DDoS protection, et cetera, all covered by Cloudflare."

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"The benefit that we have seen is that if we turn it off, people notice that the applications are running slowly."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to create policies where we can tailor them to the customer; it enables us to prioritize apps and users for bandwidth."

"The most valuable features are the shaper, accelerator, and the reporting... it will shape the traffic better than, for example, a Cisco, because it's more gentle on the shaping side of things. Suppose you were selling a 20-meg link. Because you can shape to the nth degree of traffic, the 20-meg link feels like about a 30 to 40-meg link."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to manage the traffic at the application layer. It makes things a lot easier. We're not digging for port numbers and IP addresses and different services... It makes us far more responsive in our ability to do things and speed up the process. We're a very small shop, so having something that's straightforward and easy to use is a big help."

"One of the great things for us is that the solution works, and it works whether you're looking at it or not."

"Getting Exinda was a life saver for our voice traffic"

"Compared to some of the stuff that I've used a decade ago, the Exinda solution is night and day."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to provide very granular classes of service. That's important because it allows us to prioritize certain traffic types over others, to a very granular level."

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"In terms of ROI and features aside from other expensive IDS and IPS hardware, this product I recommend."

"Making use of two connections per site we were able to minimize expensive MPLS connections and replace them with cheap internet lines with IPsec tunnels."

"Application visibility is without doubt the strongest point of this product and the most valuable to me as a user."

Cons

"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall should include port forwarding features."

"If they add logs history within the Cloudflare offering, that would be a great benefit."

"The dashboard could be more user-friendly."

"I have experienced some difficulties with Cloudflare's support as a customer based in India."

"We have noticed some latency when the call goes through the firewall. That could be improved."

"The solution's learning curve can still be further reduced"

"They need to improve their support because getting a response for basic requests took around 48 hours, which is too long."

"Its stability could be better."

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"The stability was terrible in version 7.0 but it's been good since version 7.2."

"The updating of applications that the system knows about could be a little quicker. For example, Zoom had been out for a while, but it took a while for it to show up as an application that Exinda could natively handle. We had to write some things in order to handle Zoom, initially."

"It should improve the quality of service. It can improve their connection to the internet and your IP."

"GFI's technical support for this solution could be better. It's hard to find information about Exinda, directly."

"The areas for improvement would be around the support service that GFI provides."

"A lot of working with this solution is really intuitive. I have picked it up mostly on my own. I'm sure that there are some things that maybe I hadn't thought of or really hadn't considered, and I think it would be good just to promote some day courses. I don't really see a whole lot that comes out for Exinda as far as training or informational sessions through our normal resellers. It would be cool to know more about the solution by utilizing educational resources or even have Exinda promoted a bit better."

"Fundamentally sound with WAN acceleration, but needs to expand the range of accelerated applications."

"What I don't like is the fact that I haven't purchased the overall management interface. That is the interface that allows you to manage multiple Exindas. Personally, I think Exinda should provide that for free. I think that if you buy more and more Exinda boxes, you shouldn't then have to incur a charge for the overall management software. While I can manage each Exinda separately, if they provided me with the overall management platform for free that would probably encourage me to buy more appliances."

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"I suppose being able to set performance targets or QoS Profiles individually per location would be nice."

"Acceleration and ACL (Access control list), IPS/IDS."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is not too pricey."

"It starts at $20 and can easily go up to $200 monthly"

"The pricing model is very straightforward compared to the competition. You just pay per month for the product and usage."

"We pay $210 per month for CloudFlare WAF."

"The solution's pricing option needs to be more transparent for enterprise clients."

"The annual licensing fee is $10,000 USD."

"The solution is expensive."

"Cloudflare offers different types of subscriptions for businesses, enterprises, and personal users, and the pricing is negotiable."

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"The pricing and licensing are pretty fair and really competitive. There are other SD-WAN solutions that are pretty costly because they build in a service where they'll manage it for you, which is really great. I don't know if Exinda has that option as well. However, we are a small shop and cost-conscious. For things like this, we are accustomed to self-managing and this solution suits us just fine. For a tool that gives you, like the graphs and reporting, it has a fair price point."

"It is priced well for the market, for what it needs to do."

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Overview

Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's intuitive dashboard enables users to build powerful rules through easy clicks and also provides Terraform integration. Every request to the WAF is inspected against the rule engine and the threat intelligence curated from protecting over 27 Million websites. Suspicious requests can be blocked, challenged or logged as per the needs of the user while legitimate requests are routed to the destination, agnostic of whether it lives on-premise or in the cloud. Analytics and Cloudflare Logs enable visibility into actionable metrics for the user.

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Exinda is designed to help Network Managers solve pressing IT problems in today's complex network. Our award winning technology combines interactive analytics, an intelligent recommendation engine and powerful actions like shaping and optimization, all in one solution.

GFI

The Ipanema Autonomic Networking System (ANS) uses both software and hardware components. The fully featured hardware components are called ip|engines. These devices are installed within the customer VPN at edge locations, typically between a CPE router and the LAN. Requiring no specific local configuration except an IP address, an ip|engine is a self-managed and cooperative device that operates under the control of the ANS central management software, called SALSA. Each ip|engine acts as a local point of control within ANS. ip|engines work collectively in real-time to discover the applications and measure the network's performance and usage ip|engine. As part of ANS, the ip|engines cooperate and tune themselves automatically to the dynamic nature of the application traffic, globally enforcing the Application SLAs. They take into account meshed flows, different types of congestion, application competition for resources and so on. The ip|engines adapt to longer term changes within the business, such as a change in the distribution of users across sites, a newly deployed application or a new site, as well as the evolution of infrastructure and services into the cloud.

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crunchbase, udacity, marketo, okcupid, zendesk

UMass Dartmouth, MLB Network, R&R Ice Cream, Savills, Manhattan School of Music, Blum Shapiro, Cincinnati Public Schools, City of Richmond, Genting Casinos, The Salvation Army, VoIP Unlimited, Frontier Silicon, Lakeshore Toltest, CTI Foods

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