Cisco Routers vs Ipanema WAN Optimization

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco has a very easy CLI and most importantly it is known to most network engineers. There is a huge possibility that Cisco solutions are available over the Internet for a particular problem or a use case. Cisco has been improving ever since, however, Cisco can improve in areas such as rollback or error checking mechanism during the configuration, Juniper Networks Routers has done a great job in this area. Cisco is well suited for enterprise environments, however, for Service Provider Networks there are many options available.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Computer Networking Company, 10,001+ employees

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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

Cisco routers offer networks for the WAN, the LAN and the cloud include advanced analytics, optimization security incorporated with them you can have a comprehensive and proven solution.
They are well designed to support coherent optics to drive the convergence of optical layers, as well as systems that offer lower power consumption
They are very reliable for networks that are constantly growing traffic with fixed or modular systems that allow handling large traffic flows
They are quite friendly and easy-to-use computers on their different platforms, whether ios, ios xe, XR

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Jose Manuel Castillo

Post Sales and Network Engineer / Southern Cone

LogicalisTelecommunications, 201-500 employees

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

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Ashwani Bansal

Consultant

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

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Cons

Software-defined radios could be used so that both the radios could be converted into 5 GHz model to provide enhanced connectivity in network congestion scenarios.
Support for low power IoT devices.
Should provide more details about devices connected to the access points such as the risk score of the devices.
Enhanced encryption algorithms and quick firmware upgrades.

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Ravinder Beniwal

Sr. Consultant

UnitedLexLegal 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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Pricing Details

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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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

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

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Alternatives Considered

Cisco routers are great and are the industry standard. They have proven their ability to last and [continually] provide support for their devices. You can go into a lot of IT closets and see old Cisco switches and routers. Why? because they are workhorses and they last. Their compatibility [with] other systems and hardware makes them hard to beat.

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Shaun Stockton

Security Systems Analyst

Council Bluffs Community School DistrictEducation Management, 501-1000 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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