Aryaka SmartConnect vs Ipanema WAN Optimization

Likelihood to Recommend

It integrates nicely with AWS (in regions other than China). The provisioning support is pretty good.

Principal Architect

SAP ConcurInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

Ipanema WAN Optimization solution is best suited for organizations where poor application performance and application visibility are the key challenges. It is effective where most of the customer sites are in areas where bandwidth upgrade is a challenge. Centralised management of devices through Web Server makes it easy to manage & control them.

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Ashwani Bansal

Consultant

Orange Business Services India Technology Pvt LtdInformation Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Pros

Relatively easily to implement

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Jeff Stockamp

Principal Architect

SAP ConcurInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Dynamic WAN selection.
Application monitoring.
WAN optimization.
Application performance management.
Performance improvement.

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Ashwani Bansal

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Orange Business Services India Technology Pvt LtdInformation Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Support is very inconsistent, no real trouble-ticketing system when you have issues
Very expensive for what you get
Not much advance notification for maintenance events
Unclear if Aryaka connectivity into China meets Chinese M.I.I.T. laws

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Jeff Stockamp

Principal Architect

SAP ConcurInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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SaaS Applications.
Knowledge base on support portal.

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Ashwani Bansal

Consultant

Orange Business Services India Technology Pvt LtdInformation Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

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Ipanema WAN Optimization 8.0

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Some of the problem areas where I feel it wasn't easy enough like troubleshooting, digging deep with packet inspection, security. But Dynamic WAN Selection based on the AQS parameters give this solution an advantage on the other products. Newly added features like cloud application performance monitoring is simplified now.

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Ashwani Bansal

Consultant

Orange Business Services India Technology Pvt LtdInformation Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We didn't really evaluate many other SDWAN providers as very few operate inside of China. Our alternative was to build VPN connectivity ourselves.

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Jeff Stockamp

Principal Architect

SAP ConcurInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Customer went through multiple vendors to address their issue related to application performance and WAN performance improvement. We went into discussion with Riverbed and Ipanema. Ipanema WAN Optimization solution fulfilled their requirements as some of the features like teleengine, virtual ipbox extra are an advantage over the Riverbed solution.

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Ashwani Bansal

Consultant

Orange Business Services India Technology Pvt LtdInformation Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Enabled us to deploy infrastructure into new regions quickly
Cost of Aryaka connections (especially in China) is excessive

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Jeff Stockamp

Principal Architect

SAP ConcurInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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This can improve end user experience, which leads to reduced operational cost.
Return on Investment in 24 months.
Centralised management of devices can ease in management of devices.

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Ashwani Bansal

Consultant

Orange Business Services India Technology Pvt LtdInformation Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No