We performed a comparison between FatPipe SD-WAN and Steelhead based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Fortinet, Cisco, VMware and others in WAN Edge."The most valuable feature of FatPipe SD-WAN is it's based on SD-WAN technology."
"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."
"The compression of Riverbed is very powerful. It can also handle large quantities of traffic."
"I find the most valuable to be the compression and exchange replication."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Steelhead is its optimization capabilities."
"The connectivity to speed is the valuable feature."
"TCP optimization... caches a particular TCP connection and the next time a user uses that connection he will reach the destination easily."
"FatPipe SD-WAN can improve the price to scale the solution."
"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 product should offer more integration capabilities."
"The solution needs to have alert notifications."
"The application response time of the solution can be improved."
"They should include a network switch in a future release."
"One area for improvement is related to monitoring and visibility."
"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."
"Application response time and network performance could be improved."
FatPipe SD-WAN is ranked 17th in WAN Edge with 1 review while Steelhead is ranked 15th in WAN Edge with 22 reviews. FatPipe SD-WAN is rated 8.0, while Steelhead is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of FatPipe SD-WAN writes "Beneficial technology, reliable, and simple deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Steelhead writes "Exceptionally stable and reliable but costly". FatPipe SD-WAN is most compared with VMware SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate and Cisco SD-WAN, whereas Steelhead is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform, WAAS, Citrix SD-WAN and Noction IRP.
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