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Cisco Wide Area Application Services vs. Ipanema SD-WAN (discontinued)

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    Cisco WAAS

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ACisco's Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) is a WAN optimization option.N/A

    Ipanema SD-WAN (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AFrench company Ipanema was acquired in April 2015 by InfoVista, to expand that company's offerings into WAN optimization and became part of Extreme Networks portfolio, after the acquistion in late 2021. But the product line is discontinued, and no longer supported or sold.N/A
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    Cisco WAASIpanema SD-WAN (discontinued)
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    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco WAASIpanema SD-WAN (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Cisco Meraki SD-WAN
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco WAASIpanema SD-WAN (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
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    Support Rating
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    Cisco WAASIpanema SD-WAN (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    WAAS works best for cookie cutter and some unique network design implementations. is best suited for an all Cisco network infrastructure. however, a number of 3rd party network devices can be used and supported when using this product. it's easier with all Cisco. It is priced pretty high to get into and medium to enterprise organizations is best suited to implement this in
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    Discontinued Products
    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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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Network file and application optimization
    • VOIP telephony optimization
    • Citrix application optimization
    • Standardized user experience for networking usage
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Dynamic WAN selection.
    • Application monitoring.
    • WAN optimization.
    • Application performance management.
    • Performance improvement.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Administrator GUI user interface is archaic and very dated
    • Admin GUI lacks a bunch of feature support options you have to do via CLI
    • Some endpoint functionality needs to be done at each site instead of from the central admin tool. so redundant effort and can cause site config drift
    • Admin GUI lacks some monitoring and reporting options that would be helpful for support and trouble resolution
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    Discontinued Products
    • SaaS Applications.
    • Knowledge base on support portal.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
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    Discontinued Products
    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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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    We are already a Cisco organization for network and security products. Cisco provided us discounting competitors just couldn't get to. competitors required more hardware and more complex setup requirements over this product due to our network design. The end result when comparing WAAS to others were going to be the same speed, experience, and pretty much the same administration requirements from IT. The added cost savings won us over.
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    Discontinued Products
    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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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • saves monthly internet service costs
    • seamless network experience for all users at all sites
    • ok troubleshooting admin portal so some IT skills are required to manage this
    • is costly to purchase
    • somewhat complex to set up but easy to administer once working
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    Discontinued Products
    • 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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