Cisco Wide Area Application Services vs. Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco WAAS
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Cisco's Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) is a WAN optimization option.N/A
Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Silver Peak's WAN Optimization brand and appliances were discontinued after the company's acquisition in 2020 by HPE. Similar capabilities are supplied now under HPE's Aruba brand.N/A
Pricing
Cisco Wide Area Application ServicesSilver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cisco WAASSilver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Cisco Wide Area Application ServicesSilver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
Best Alternatives
Cisco Wide Area Application ServicesSilver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
Cisco Routers
Cisco Routers
Score 9.2 out of 10
Cisco Routers
Cisco Routers
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Cisco Routers
Cisco Routers
Score 9.2 out of 10
Cisco Routers
Cisco Routers
Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Cisco Wide Area Application ServicesSilver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cisco Wide Area Application ServicesSilver Peak WAN Optimization (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
This is well suited when you need to deploy a virtual router to provide SD-WAN services across multiple sites. This works great for small businesses since they added firewall services. The price and feature set are also great for mid-sized enterprises due to the ability to manage multiple appliances with templates, central reporting, and ability to provide high availability of the appliances with VRRP.
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Pros
Cisco
  • Network file and application optimization
  • VOIP telephony optimization
  • Citrix application optimization
  • Standardized user experience for networking usage
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Discontinued Products
  • WAN Acceleration.
  • Improves application performance.
  • Reduce bandwidth costs.
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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
  • Managing more and more routers can add complexity with templates.
  • Documentation around internal routing protocol they use is confusing.
  • Boost add-on was oversold by pre-sales team and not helpful during testing.
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Support Rating
Cisco
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Discontinued Products
They need to improve their Spanish communication.
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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
We currently have almost all Cisco Meraki and would have loved to keep the product portfolio the same. Silver Peak was far cheaper and offered far more features. A lot of our evaluation showed that NGFW offers SD-WAN but it is not a full-featured deployment. Silver Peak is by and large better at being able to use both links at once, offer failover, QoS, and central reporting.
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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
  • Able to get rid of MPLS
  • No more router hardware costs
  • Able to use both WAN links instead of one being only failover
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