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.
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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