GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator vs. Ipanema SD-WAN (discontinued)

GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator

GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator

6 Reviews and Ratings

Ipanema SD-WAN (discontinued)

Ipanema SD-WAN (discontinued)

2 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	A real-time network monitoring solution focusing on the network user's perspective, that helps administrators to understand how well an organization’s important applications are performing. It offers dashboards that help to identify network use, traffic bottlenecks and problem areas by looking at application or Level 7 performance by app, user, device, and location.	N/A
Ipanema SD-WAN (discontinued)	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	French 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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GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator

Ipanema SD-WAN (discontinued)

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Pricing Offerings
GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator	Ipanema SD-WAN (discontinued)
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

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Community Pulse
	GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator	Ipanema SD-WAN (discontinued)
Top Pros	Pro Ease of deployment Pro Admin console Pro Console is easy	Pro Application monitoring Pro Application performance Pro Performance management
Top Cons	Minus Difficult to work	Minus Knowledge base Minus Support portal Minus Saas applications

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User Ratings
	GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator	Ipanema SD-WAN (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator	Ipanema SD-WAN (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	GFI Software Well suited to traffic control and prioritization WAN Op is limited and does not work reliably Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Ashwani Bansal Consultant Read full review
Pros	GFI Software Ease of deployment Traffic policy config Admin console is easy to navigate Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Discontinued Products Dynamic WAN selection. Application monitoring. WAN optimization. Application performance management. Performance improvement. Incentivized Ashwani Bansal Consultant Read full review
Cons	GFI Software WAN Optimization does not work well Reporting, while available, is difficult to work with Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Discontinued Products SaaS Applications. Knowledge base on support portal. Incentivized Ashwani Bansal Consultant Read full review
Support Rating	GFI Software No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Ashwani Bansal Consultant Read full review
Alternatives Considered	GFI Software Exinda was a good balance between cost and capability. We replaced an aging Packetshaper infrastructure with Exinda Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Ashwani Bansal Consultant Read full review
Return on Investment	GFI Software Minimize bandwidth expenditures by prioritizing the traffic we care about and controlling the traffic we do not care about. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Ashwani Bansal Consultant Read full review
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