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Citrix SD-WAN (discontinued) vs. Riverbed SteelHead vs. Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)

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    Citrix SD-WAN (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ACitrix SD-WAN (formerly Netscaler SD-WAN) was a software-defined WAN solution, featuring WAN optimization. The product is not part of Citrix's plans going forward.N/A

    Riverbed SteelHead

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ASan Francisco based Riverbed Technology offers Steelhead, a WAN optimization solution. The new SteelHead 90 series appliances are designed to provide performance, security, scalability, data movement efficiency, and resilient networking.N/A

    Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASilver 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
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    Offerings
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    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 feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Riverbed Technology
    Chose Riverbed SteelHead
    Riverbed Steelhead offers simplicity and fantastic customer support. The performance is a cut above the others as well.
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Best Alternatives
    Citrix SD-WAN (discontinued)Riverbed SteelHeadSilver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Cisco Meraki SD-WAN
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Citrix SD-WAN (discontinued)Riverbed SteelHeadSilver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Citrix SD-WAN (discontinued)Riverbed SteelHeadSilver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
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    Any organization with a robust IT support network and with 100+ users, all the way up to international conglomerates with millions of workers. The only situation I can see where it might be harder is if you have a very small business with limited technical know-how. Otherwise, it's honestly the no-brainer choice.
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    Riverbed Technology
    If you are dealing with large CAD files on a daily basis "remotely", Riverbed Steelhead makes your home office feel just like the office
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    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
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    • Excellent integration with the Citrix Cloud Connector makes it a breeze to use.
    • Access control is locked down with biometric security and easy password creation.
    • License usage is always 100% secure.
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    Riverbed Technology
    • Effectively improves data throughput over VPN WAN connections.
    • Seamless operation.
    • Optimizes a variety of applications. Including, HTTPS, Citrix, Netapp SM and SV, Exchange, etc.
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    • WAN Acceleration.
    • Improves application performance.
    • Reduce bandwidth costs.
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    Cons
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    • Sometimes the interface is a bit slow to load. That's honestly about it!
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    Riverbed Technology
    • A reduction in price is always welcomed
    • Simplify and streamline advanced features and add-on pieces for more detailed traffic analysis
    • Getting granularity into traffic behavior becomes confusing and very expensive
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    • 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
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    Riverbed Technology
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    They need to improve their Spanish communication.
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    Alternatives Considered
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    After a lengthy vendor selection process we determined that CloudBridge was the best solution—although as always with demos it was difficult to tell if we'd really made the right decision. Since selecting CloudBridge—hough I have had lots of input from colleagues who use other systems—I feel very happy with our choice. The feature set alone is just far superior.
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    Riverbed Technology
    We tested Cisco eleven years ago in parallel with Riverbed in a PoC. The Cisco configuration was very complex and sticky based on the location. The Riverbed configuration is flexible based on the whole storage. A software client for devices like laptops or tablets is not available for Cisco WAAS, therefore we selected Riverbed based on a PoC.
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    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
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    • Tremendous savings from high uptime percent.
    • Keeping our remote users engaged and stable at work means we can hire anywhere on earth.
    • Access control keeps our IT team from constantly being tied up with password resets.
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    Riverbed Technology
    • Files now open a lot quicker, at near local speeds.
    • We are able to respond to customers quicker as we can get access quicker.
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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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