When deploying EdgeConnect, we usually deploy everything. If a customer only has one branch and no cloud, they will not be deployed with EdgeConnect. When a customer takes EdgeConnect, we know that they have multiple scenarios such as remote branches, cloud, and on-prem data centers, and this is where we use and put the EdgeConnect. My relationship with Aruba is that I am a partner of them. My advice for people considering to use this solution is that if price is no matter, they don't need to consider anything else. On a scale from one to ten, I rate this solution a six.
I am a solution advertiser for different security products and work with FortiGate, Palo Alto, mobile device management solutions, and endpoint security solutions. I compare features to guide customers to the right solution, which is why I have consulted peer reviews from various websites. I am currently a reseller for Aruba. I rate the Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform 8 out of 10.
It Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
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Top 5
Sep 4, 2024
The tool can be used in a standard networking environment. We also have some SaaS applications, like Microsoft Office 365, some SaaS applications, and stuff like that. For the maintenance of the tool, we used role-based access. If there is an infrastructure change to make the changes, other people can go in and check its health and things like that. There are some things that they can see and figure out as to what is going on, but I manage the infrastructure part. We can give anybody an account and set it up so that they can see what they need to see. I am not utilizing AI with the tool. The tool's integration process with the existing infrastructure has been easy. The default setting routes out to everything. The zero-touch provisioning feature is great, and it helped me deploy all those 30 devices. You just go in, you put in a configuration file, and you just need to know the serial number of the device, which you know because they have it on the tool. It is on the outside of the box, plus it is also on your invoice. You put the serial number on it, and wherever you are sending it to, you just put that configuration in. As soon as you plug it up, it automatically deploys the configuration that you put in the orchestrator, so you never have to touch the device. I recommend the tool to others. I don't know why people buy Cisco or Juniper. Silver Peak is such a well-thought-out product, and it works so well. There is no reason to really look at anything else. We did a forklift upgrade of all Meraki devices we had originally, and Cisco came in and tried to sell us the Viptela. When Silver Peak came in and spoke to our company, we had a proof of concept and did the testing, and that went so well that we purchased it. It was that quick of a turnaround. Silver Peak is a good device. Silver Peak is only an orchestrator and comes as a single pane of glass device. It is truly a single pane of glass for everything. It is not in the data path at all. Even if the orchestrator goes down, all of your devices still continue to work. The orchestrator is great. You could pre-configure the devices. For whatever reason, if the orchestrator goes away, you can log directly into the device itself to make any changes that you need to make. It gives you tons of flexibility with how you wanna treat your traffic in your SD-WAN cloud. It is just a good solution. I rate the tool a ten out of ten.
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When deploying EdgeConnect, we usually deploy everything. If a customer only has one branch and no cloud, they will not be deployed with EdgeConnect. When a customer takes EdgeConnect, we know that they have multiple scenarios such as remote branches, cloud, and on-prem data centers, and this is where we use and put the EdgeConnect. My relationship with Aruba is that I am a partner of them. My advice for people considering to use this solution is that if price is no matter, they don't need to consider anything else. On a scale from one to ten, I rate this solution a six.
I am a solution advertiser for different security products and work with FortiGate, Palo Alto, mobile device management solutions, and endpoint security solutions. I compare features to guide customers to the right solution, which is why I have consulted peer reviews from various websites. I am currently a reseller for Aruba. I rate the Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform 8 out of 10.
The overall product rating is eight out of ten.
The tool can be used in a standard networking environment. We also have some SaaS applications, like Microsoft Office 365, some SaaS applications, and stuff like that. For the maintenance of the tool, we used role-based access. If there is an infrastructure change to make the changes, other people can go in and check its health and things like that. There are some things that they can see and figure out as to what is going on, but I manage the infrastructure part. We can give anybody an account and set it up so that they can see what they need to see. I am not utilizing AI with the tool. The tool's integration process with the existing infrastructure has been easy. The default setting routes out to everything. The zero-touch provisioning feature is great, and it helped me deploy all those 30 devices. You just go in, you put in a configuration file, and you just need to know the serial number of the device, which you know because they have it on the tool. It is on the outside of the box, plus it is also on your invoice. You put the serial number on it, and wherever you are sending it to, you just put that configuration in. As soon as you plug it up, it automatically deploys the configuration that you put in the orchestrator, so you never have to touch the device. I recommend the tool to others. I don't know why people buy Cisco or Juniper. Silver Peak is such a well-thought-out product, and it works so well. There is no reason to really look at anything else. We did a forklift upgrade of all Meraki devices we had originally, and Cisco came in and tried to sell us the Viptela. When Silver Peak came in and spoke to our company, we had a proof of concept and did the testing, and that went so well that we purchased it. It was that quick of a turnaround. Silver Peak is a good device. Silver Peak is only an orchestrator and comes as a single pane of glass device. It is truly a single pane of glass for everything. It is not in the data path at all. Even if the orchestrator goes down, all of your devices still continue to work. The orchestrator is great. You could pre-configure the devices. For whatever reason, if the orchestrator goes away, you can log directly into the device itself to make any changes that you need to make. It gives you tons of flexibility with how you wanna treat your traffic in your SD-WAN cloud. It is just a good solution. I rate the tool a ten out of ten.
The solution is easy to maintain. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
I rate the Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform an eight out of ten.
I rate the Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform a nine out of ten.
I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
Overall, I would give Silver Peak NX a ten out of ten.