Pulse vADC (discontinued) vs. Riverbed SteelHead Interceptor
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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Pulse vADC (discontinued) | Score9 out of 10 | N/A | Pulse vADC was a virtual application delivery controller suite used to manage, distribute, and secure application traffic across data center and cloud infrastructure. The suite combined traffic management, centralized ADC administration, and web application protection. Ivanti acquired Pulse Secure in December 2020 and subsequently marketed the suite as Ivanti vADC. Ivanti has designated this legacy offering for sunset. | N/A |
Riverbed SteelHead Interceptor | N/A | N/A | SteelHead Interceptor is a load balancing solution designed to enable customers to scale optimization solutions to support hundreds of thousands of end users across an enterprise, as well as very high bandwidth connections into the data center. | N/A |
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| Entry-level Setup Fee | No setup fee | No setup fee | ||||||||||||||
| Additional Details | Ivanti vADC software uses a tiered pricing model based on feature sets and throughput requirements, with subscription licenses. Licensing typically depends on the number of instances, bandwidth, or capacity and can include additional modules for advanced features, support, and maintenance. Cloud deployment versions are available with usage-based pricing models. | — | ||||||||||||||
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| Small Businesses | No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic |
| Medium-sized Companies | ![]() Azure Application Gateway Score8.8 out of 10 | ![]() F5 BIG-IP Score9.2 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | NetScaler Score8 out of 10 | ![]() F5 BIG-IP Score9.2 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
| Pulse vADC (discontinued) | Riverbed SteelHead Interceptor | |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.0 | - |
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