We performed a comparison between Huawei Enterprise Routers and Steelhead based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two WAN Edge solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The setup is simple."
"The product’s technical support team is responsive."
"Internet access is a good feature."
"The most valuable feature of Huawei Enterprise Routers is if have two networks at different geographical locations with a great deal of distance they work together as if they are on the same cloud network."
"When we started, the connection was amazing for the 100G between the switches and the co-switch. What the students typically use for school is a maximum is 40 so they now have faster technology."
"I use the product to connect to various access points to extend my network."
"The most valuable features for us are NAT, ATS, server capabilities, VPN tunneling, and management."
"It's simple to use and offers good connectivity."
"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."
"Scalable data referencing is a great feature."
"The compression of Riverbed is very powerful. It can also handle large quantities of traffic."
"TCP optimization... caches a particular TCP connection and the next time a user uses that connection he will reach the destination easily."
"The connectivity to speed is the valuable feature."
"I find the most valuable to be the compression and exchange replication."
"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 most valuable feature of Steelhead is its optimization capabilities."
"We'd like the product to be more flexible so that we could more easily manipulate some of the features."
"They should include features like IPS for security and response."
"There isn't really any scalability potential."
"The internet speed reduces throughout the day. The tool is not stable."
"Huawei Enterprise Routers can improve by enhancing their security. The software architecture and the operating system that runs on their router and the security capability are not as strong when compared to Cisco."
"The only problem I see is configuration loss."
"We have encountered issues while integrating the product with Enterprise Management Systems. Huawei platform is good for Huawei but we face issues when we integrate it with other models."
"Syntax in the implementation process could be easier to understand for a new user or someone who doesn’t have prior experience using the product."
"One area for improvement is related to monitoring and visibility."
"The application response time of the solution can 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 solution needs to have alert notifications."
"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"
"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."
"The product should offer more integration capabilities."
"Application response time and network performance could be improved."
Huawei Enterprise Routers is ranked 8th in WAN Edge with 24 reviews while Steelhead is ranked 15th in WAN Edge with 22 reviews. Huawei Enterprise Routers is rated 7.8, while Steelhead is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Huawei Enterprise Routers writes "A stable and easy-to-manage solution with good security and firewalls". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Steelhead writes "Exceptionally stable and reliable but costly". Huawei Enterprise Routers is most compared with MikroTik Routers and Switches, Cisco Enterprise Routers, Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco SD-WAN and Juniper MX Series Routers, whereas Steelhead is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform, WAAS, Citrix SD-WAN and Noction IRP. See our Huawei Enterprise Routers vs. Steelhead report.
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