California Telecom SD-WAN Platform vs. HPE Intelligent Management Center

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
California Telecom SD-WAN Platform
Score 9.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) is a technology that offers benefits to organizations seeking to optimize their network infrastructure. California Telecom blends the benefits of SD-WAN with support and a team of Tier-3 Network engineers to provide a helping hand to come alongside organizations' boots-on-the-ground teams. Some benefits that have been identified are: Improved Network Performance: Dynamic…
$170
per month per installation
HPE Intelligent Management Center
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC), formerly known as HP Network Management Center, is a network performance monitoring option, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.
$1,710.07
one-time fee 50‑node License E‑LTU
Pricing
California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformHPE Intelligent Management Center
Editions & Modules
250 Mbps - Standard
$170
per month per installation
300 Mbps - Standard
$185
per month per installation
600 Mbps - Standard
$210
per month per installation
1 GB - Standard
$300
per month per installation
Basic Edition
$1,710.07
one-time fee 50‑node License E‑LTU
Enterprise Edition
$5,884.04
one-time fee 50‑node License E‑LTU
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformHPE Intelligent Management Center
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsMonthly pricing available through HPE financing options.
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Community Pulse
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Small Businesses

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User Ratings
California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformHPE Intelligent Management Center
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
California Telecom SD-WAN PlatformHPE Intelligent Management Center
Likelihood to Recommend
California Telecom
CalTel SD-WAN platform is well suited for organization that are looking for scalability but in a cost-effective way. CalTel SD-WAN platform is also suited for organization who do not want to use their internal resource managing this system
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Its very good and easy to do custom polling by importing MIB files where we had challenges to do out of box monitoring. Integration is easy.
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Pros
California Telecom
  • Inovative infratructure for scalability and realiability.
  • More cost-effective from service to support
  • Proactive monitoring
  • Knowledgeable engineers
  • Seemless implementation
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Multivendor flexibility.
  • Topology map features.
  • Backup configurations.
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Cons
California Telecom
  • Jim G. works well with executive staff in discovering ways to meet requirement, implement a more scalable technology, while still being cost-effective. Jim will need to replicate himself in order to be able to have others to do this type of work instead.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Visibility of both LAN and WiFi network components.
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Support Rating
California Telecom
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
They are fast responding when you create a support case. But they also have a forum (community) where you can find knowledge-base information that is very useful.
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Alternatives Considered
California Telecom
Cal-Tel is more cost effective, reliable, and have a more proactive management.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Cause of the great gui and easy management can be customized to your liking. The awesome topology maps you can make easy to change make it your own design. Great support. Don't need a large database to run. Can handle multiple users at once with ease. Overall a great product recommend to anyone
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Return on Investment
California Telecom
  • Moving from Windstream system to CalTel cut gave us a monthly savings of $371K /yr for our phone and internet expenses.
  • It also allowed us to be more proactive when a circuit has trouble and allowed us to have redundancy.
  • Also allowed us to easily migrate our servers to a Data-Center and manage the traffic.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Easy to implement
  • Easy to configure
  • Overall good monitoring tool
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