Cisco Wide Area Application Services vs. NitroAccelerator

Cisco Wide Area Application Services

NitroAccelerator

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco WAAS	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Cisco's Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) is a WAN optimization option.	N/A
NitroAccelerator	Score 8.3 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	NitroAccelerator installs as a device driver to endpoints to optimize TCP-based connections. The solution is software-based and does not rely on third party proxies, distributed caching, lateral data-movement, or hardware appliances. The vendor states that NitroAccelerator is EPL Certified and approved to run on DoD networks with no known vulnerabilities or direct-competing vendors and is currently accelerating and securing enterprise-level connections all over the world.	N/A

Pricing

Cisco Wide Area Application Services

NitroAccelerator

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cisco WAAS	NitroAccelerator
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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First year Maintenance & Support (M&S) are included in the license price. For the second year on, annual M&S will be charged at 20% of the original license price.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Cisco Wide Area Application Services	NitroAccelerator
Top Pros	Pro High availability Pro Traffic analysis Pro Easy to integrate	Pro Data transfer Pro Easy to setup
Top Cons	Minus Easier management	Minus Product needs Minus New server Minus Sql database

Best Alternatives
	Cisco Wide Area Application Services	NitroAccelerator
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Cisco Routers Score 8.4 out of 10	Cisco Routers Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprises	Cisco Routers Score 8.4 out of 10	Cisco Routers Score 8.4 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Cisco Wide Area Application Services	NitroAccelerator
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco Wide Area Application Services	NitroAccelerator
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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Nitrosphere If you have an analytics-supporting SQL Server instance on a VM or bare metal, this is for you. Any large queries will get a massive speed-up. If you're using a DBaaS, then you would need to set up a proxy VM to see the benefits. If you have a transactional-only database, you won't likely see any benefits. Steven Hibble SVP Data Operations Read full review
Pros	Cisco Network file and application optimization VOIP telephony optimization Citrix application optimization Standardized user experience for networking usage Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Nitrosphere No answers on this topic
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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Nitrosphere No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Nitrosphere No answers on this topic
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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Nitrosphere No answers on this topic
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