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HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect vs. Untangle SD-WAN Router

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    HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AThe HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN platform addresses the challenges associated with backhauling cloud-destined traffic to the data center, thereby reducing the cost of bandwidth connectivity from the data center to cloud providers.N/A

    Untangle SD-WAN Router

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AAs part of Untangle’s Network Security Framework, Untangle SD-WAN Router with advanced routing capabilities and stateful firewall, provides the ability for businesses to build a Software-Defined Network. Untangle SD-WAN Router software provides interoffice connectivity across sites, optimizes the internet over existing infrastructure, and prioritizes business critical applications to maximize employee productivity. The Untangle SD-WAN Router eSeries appliances feature WiFi and LTE connectivity…

    $30

    per month

    Pricing
    HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnectUntangle SD-WAN Router
    Editions & Modules
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    Virtual Appliance
    $30
    per month
    e3 appliance
    $199.00
    one-time purchase
    e3w appliance
    $249.00
    one-time purchase
    e6 appliance
    $499.00
    one-time purchase
    e6w appliance
    $599.00
    one-time purchase
    e6wl appliance
    $799.00
    one-time purchase
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnectUntangle SD-WAN Router
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—discounts available for annual contract terms.
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    User Ratings
    HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnectUntangle SD-WAN Router
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnectUntangle SD-WAN Router
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    The HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN excel in environments where you do a lot of your East - West segmentation is done by another device. While these devices can do basic firewall functions, it's their not true intent. If you can group what you want your traffic to do into a few basic groups, this product will work great (think all Guest Traffic gets low priority and sent directly to the internet, VoIP gets sent directly out but high priority, and most internal traffic gets medium throughput). There are ways to really tinker reach the desired goals but this can be a double-edged sword of those configurations being forgotten about. There is also the use of templating which if you have a larger environment, this product will make some normal configs (think SNMP) more streamlined. The units are also highly reliable, built with HA in mind - our company has only experienced a single version that had a memory leak that we just needed to remember to reboot every 90 days while we waited for the next update (which came in like 4 months).
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    Untangle
    Awesome for most small businesses that need some better protection past their provider's box. Those usually don't handle anything past being a gateway well. Pricing is another thing. The costs are great as compared to the cost of a box plus support and licensing. Untangle really does have the smaller markets taken care of with exactly what they need. Anything more and you'll be looking at a physical solution.
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    Pros
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Fairly easy to manage once its setup and running
    • Updates are easy and handled with little downtime
    • Price is just right for the product functionality
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    Untangle
    • VPN
    • Works out of the box.
    • Simple to use.
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    Cons
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Ran into some weird bugs along the way that required support to address
    • Not having physical devices that you can reboot yourself takes a bit of control away
    • Administrators have a bit of a learning curve in figuring out the new system
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    Untangle
    • GUI is rough.
    • Setting up intricate routes are a bit confusing.
    • No HA
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    Usability
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    The product and its management as a whole are worth investigating for any kind of people interested in looking at new SD-WAN appliances. The devices possess a lot of capability for granularity which makes them much more advanced than other products I've worked with in the past. Ironically, for all the granularity though, this product is held back that you can ultimately only have 7 different policies for routing decisions. We've ran into instances where we wanted two sites to only share certain routes between each other (through the use of tags which are basically an arbitrary way to say this traffic is special) but then we had to collapse some of our routing decisions in order to make a specific route table for these two to be able which felt like a step back in the advanced routing decisions we had previously made
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    Untangle
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    Alternatives Considered
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Prisma SD-WAN is a very simple solution to configure and maintain (so much to the point that in that environment, I questioned if my skills as a Network Engineer were needed). However it worked almost primarily on its own with very little input, by default and at the time of review had no way to do fully mesh (which was desired), and constantly suffered from memory leak. Its integrations were through the use of obscure tags and suffered from a "when it works - it works but when it doesn't - it doesn't and you don't know why" mentality. In contrast, HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN gives you a lot of insight into what is going on with the site, the integrations are done easily within Orchestrator (the control plane), and ultimately the product is typically a very stable product with many ways to configure and tweak the solution to fit your business needs.
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    Untangle
    Deploying untangle compared to the others is almost night and day. Sophos is amazing but is usually slow on the GUI. Sonicwall is like using black magic to bring someone back from the dead. Untangle hits all the marks for coving your customers without hitting them with enterprise-level costs.
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    Return on Investment
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • It has created a bit of overhead as another control panel that needs to be managed
    • Recovery of invested costs will take some time
    • Time is saved on the separate management of sites
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    Untangle
    • Low setup Cost.
    • Cheap scalability.
    • Fast deployment keeps customers happy with low downtime.
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