NitroAccelerator vs. Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)

NitroAccelerator

Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)	Score 9.9 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

NitroAccelerator

Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
NitroAccelerator	Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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
	NitroAccelerator	Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
Considered Both Products	NitroAccelerator No answer on this topic	Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued) Verified User Anonymous Chose Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? PB pablo baylac managing director latam Chose Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued) Because of their WAN acceleration feature Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	NitroAccelerator	Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Cisco Routers Score 9.1 out of 10	Cisco Routers Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises	Cisco Routers Score 9.1 out of 10	Cisco Routers Score 9.1 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	NitroAccelerator	Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	NitroAccelerator	Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	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	It works fantastic when you want to reduce network cost and get the same result than with an MPLS. It's less appropriate for big companies with a lot of small sites. Incentivized PB pablo baylac managing director latam Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	WAN Acceleration. Improves application performance. Reduce bandwidth costs. Incentivized PB pablo baylac managing director latam Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	They need to improve their Spanish communication. Incentivized PB pablo baylac managing director latam Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	Able to get rid of MPLS No more router hardware costs Able to use both WAN links instead of one being only failover Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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