Ipanema SD-WAN (discontinued) vs. NitroAccelerator vs. Riverbed SteelHead

Ipanema SD-WAN (discontinued)

2 Reviews and Ratings

NitroAccelerator

2 Reviews and Ratings

Riverbed SteelHead

18 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
NitroAccelerator	Score 8.2 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
Riverbed SteelHead	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	San 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

Pricing

Ipanema SD-WAN (discontinued)

NitroAccelerator

Riverbed SteelHead

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Ipanema SD-WAN (discontinued)	NitroAccelerator	Riverbed SteelHead
Free Trial
No	Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes	No

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.

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Community Pulse
	Ipanema SD-WAN (discontinued)	NitroAccelerator	Riverbed SteelHead

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User Ratings
	Ipanema SD-WAN (discontinued)	NitroAccelerator	Riverbed SteelHead
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)	10.0 (6 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Ipanema SD-WAN (discontinued)	NitroAccelerator	Riverbed SteelHead
Likelihood to Recommend	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	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	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 Incentivized KW Kevin Walgren Technology Lead Read full review
Pros	Discontinued Products Dynamic WAN selection. Application monitoring. WAN optimization. Application performance management. Performance improvement. Incentivized Ashwani Bansal Consultant Read full review	Nitrosphere No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Tim Slater Manager, Corporate Services and Information Systems Read full review
Cons	Discontinued Products SaaS Applications. Knowledge base on support portal. Incentivized Ashwani Bansal Consultant Read full review	Nitrosphere No answers on this topic	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	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	Nitrosphere No answers on this topic	Riverbed Technology No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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	Nitrosphere No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Ralf Richter Senior Solution Architect Read full review
Return on Investment	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	Nitrosphere No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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