Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vs. Silver Peak NX

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
Score 8.5 out of 10
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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN gives users the ability to manage connectivity across their WAN from a single dashboard that simplifies day to day monitoring and operations. Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN can be cloud-managed or deployed on premise offering comprehensive routing, security and policy control, along with advanced analytics with the flexibility to connect to multiple clouds with greater speed, reliability, and efficiency. According to the vendor, it can be deployed across a small number of…N/A
Silver Peak NX
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Silver Peak NX appliances are WAN optimization solutions, sized for the smallest of branch offices to the world's largest data centers and disaster recovery sites, supporting up to 5 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) of WAN capacity and 512,000 simultaneous flows. Silver Peak is now part of Aruba, since the September 2020 acquisition of Silver Peak by HPE.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Cisco Catalyst SD-WANSilver Peak NX
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Cisco Catalyst SD-WANSilver Peak NX
Considered Both Products
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
Chose Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
We only compared Silver Peak NX and Cisco SD-WAN. Since we are primarily a Cisco infrastructure shop, it seemed to integrate better than Silver Peak. We liked the confirmed long-term support from Cisco we have grown accustomed to and did not want to take a chance on a new …
Chose Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
More mature product.
Chose Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
The management tools and the integration into our enterprise network are better with the Cisco solution. Similarity to other Cisco products has allowed us faster startup time and less training requirements.
Chose Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
We looked at several different solutions, but didn't do many side-by-side evaluations. Once we sat down and looked at the capabilities of Cisco SD-WAN we stopped our evaluation process and went into a try and buy program. We feel the try and buy program is the quickest way to a …
Chose Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
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Silver Peak NX
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Score 8.4 out of 10
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Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
Cisco Catalyst SD-WANSilver Peak NX
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(73 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
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Usability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
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Support Rating
8.3
(15 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cisco Catalyst SD-WANSilver Peak NX
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco
It is a flexible tool for managing and optimizing WAN connections, but it does require some technical expertise to manage. It excels in its ability to integrate multiple WANs. It will however be a not-so-useful purchase if your company has few locations as it will be more expensive and complex for nothing.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
It works fantastic when you want to reduce network cost and get the same result than with an MPLS. It's less appropriate for big companies with a lot of small sites.
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Pros
Cisco
  • Enhancing network security by integrating with other security solutions and providing secure segmentation of the network.
  • Improving network visibility and control by providing detailed analytics and network-wide policy management.
  • Simplifying branch office networking by reducing the need for specialized hardware and simplifying network management.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • WAN Acceleration.
  • Improves application performance.
  • Reduce bandwidth costs.
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Cons
Cisco
  • It does appear to be a little glitchy when you go from template mode to CLI mode and try to do testing on certain areas. The configuration tends to get hung in that old session when you drop it from being controlled by the controller to making changes in CLI. I've had a lot of instances where you try to put it back into controller mode for review management and it holds on to your items you've had in CLI mode , it gets a little confused at which config it needs to use. You end up having to reset the whole number environment.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Likelihood to Renew
Cisco
highly recommended
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Usability
Cisco
It is the best solution on the market.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Support Rating
Cisco
Al ser soluciones integradas del portafolio de soluciones de Cisco, el soporte es transversal a cada uno de los componentes implementados, teniendo el cliente la capacidad de resolver sus inconvenientes bajo una misma infraestructura que está totalmente homologada, satisfacciendo de esta manera, las necesidades del cliente asi como permitiendo, que este se concentre en su negocio. Since the Cisco SD-WAN tools are a part of Cisco’s broader portfolio of solutions, support cross-cuts to each of our deployed components, with our company as the customer having the ability to solve our problems through the same, approved infrastructure. Their support team easily satisfies the customer’s needs so that they continue to focus on business functions.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
They need to improve their Spanish communication.
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Alternatives Considered
Cisco
The proof-of-concept setup that was done at a client site did provided a greater positive impression by Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN than Fortinet Secure SD-WAN for sure. It makes sense to use Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN while the major client is a Cisco house where more than 95% of network equipment used at their global networks are Cisco's.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Because of their WAN acceleration feature
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Return on Investment
Cisco
  • It's definitely decreased the amount that we spend on really expensive circuits every year. We're moving to cheaper broadband circuits with much higher throughput, being able to leverage those and still get the performance that we want, the quality of service that we want.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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