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Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform pros and cons

Vendor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

4.3 out of 5

24 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform impresses with its auto-tunnel creation and cost-effective solution for users replacing expensive MPLS lines. Its high availability, scalability, and data reduction enhance performance, complemented by easy setup and SD-WAN features. Users benefit from bandwidth optimization, WAN optimization, and advanced routing. However, improved report generation, better security features, integration, and faster technical support post-acquisition are necessary. Notably, license upgrades involve significant price increases.

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PROS

Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform enables customers to deploy high availability connections automatically, enhancing efficiency and reliability.

The auto-tunnel creation feature and support for asymmetric lines are particularly appreciated for improving network management and performance.

Silver Peak VX features like flexibility, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and easy long-distance performance are highly valued.

The platform is praised for bandwidth optimization, which significantly reduces costs and improves throughput.

The inbuilt next-generation firewall, advanced routing capabilities, and data compression enhance network security and performance.

CONS

Reporting features require improvements, as well as enhanced security in firewall functions.

WAN optimization for wireless connectivity is lacking in cellular capability and could be improved.

Support from Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect has declined, with agents needing better knowledge and speed post-Aruba acquisition.

License costs escalate drastically, which lacks logic and can be compared unfavorably to competitors like VMware.

Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform could enhance integration capabilities with other vendors.

Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform Pros review quotes

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Architect - Cloud Serviced at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 30, 2019

I really love the auto-tunnel creation feature.

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reviewer1275930

IT Executive Leader / Innovator at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

Aug 24, 2020

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.

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reviewer1137387

Electronics and Telecommunications Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Jun 15, 2020

First and foremost, it enables the customer to deploy high availability connections. This kind of solution enables them to deploy these HA connections for policies mostly automatically. It's a more automated approach than with other vendors.

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Integration Manager at Gilat Satellite Networks

Aug 30, 2020

The most valuable feature is the support for asymmetric lines.

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Senior Infrastructure Engineer at ATMC

Feb 7, 2022

The most valuable features of Silver Peak VX are we can register our customers and they can receive free training and all the solutions features.

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Senior Infrastructure Engineer at ATMC

Feb 7, 2022

The file and data reduction capabilities are very good. Without it, we have a great deal of network congestion.

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Integration Manager at Gilat Satellite Networks

Aug 11, 2022

The most valuable feature of Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect is the boost.

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Integration Manager at Gilat Satellite Networks

Aug 11, 2022

Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect has high availability.

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Pre-sale Engineer at Techparks

Dec 7, 2022

The solution includes features for SD-WAN and WAN such as batch conditioning and optimization.

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Ilangovan Abdullah

Solutions Architect Infrastructure and Security Manager at Jumbo Electronics Co. Ltd. LLC.

Apr 18, 2023

It is a scalable solution.

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Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform Cons review quotes

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Architect - Cloud Serviced at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 30, 2019

Reporting is something that they can improve on.

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reviewer1275930

IT Executive Leader / Innovator at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

Aug 24, 2020

Their WAN optimization in terms of wireless connectivity doesn't have a very good cellular capability.

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reviewer1137387

Electronics and Telecommunications Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Jun 15, 2020

They have to implement more security with it. The security, mainly their firewall functions, have to be included in the firewall features.

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Integration Manager at Gilat Satellite Networks

Aug 30, 2020

The security can be improved, with the firewall for example, because they supply a basic one but not a UTM.

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Senior Infrastructure Engineer at ATMC

Feb 7, 2022

There are some functional limitations that could improve.

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Senior Infrastructure Engineer at ATMC

Feb 7, 2022

We would like to have better features for path selection. For example, if we know the network is going to go down then we would like to set up an alternate route for data packets in real-time.

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Integration Manager at Gilat Satellite Networks

Aug 11, 2022

The support from Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect has declined since Aruba acquired them. The knowledge and speed of the agents could improve.

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Integration Manager at Gilat Satellite Networks

Aug 11, 2022

The license features should improve in the solution. For example, when you purchase VMware, it starts at a low level that has some functionality. When you want to expand, the difference in the price is substantial. I purchased the lower functional version for $4,000, and now if I want to upgrade, they ask me for $80,000. This is a $76,000 difference, there's no logic, but this is VMware.

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Pre-sale Engineer at Techparks

Dec 7, 2022

More technical sessions should be offered for deploying the solution.

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Ilangovan Abdullah

Solutions Architect Infrastructure and Security Manager at Jumbo Electronics Co. Ltd. LLC.

Apr 18, 2023

If compared with Cisco, then Aruba's pricing is very aggressive.

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