Riverbed Steelhead Mobile vs. Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Riverbed Steelhead Mobile
Score 7.0 out of 10
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Riverbed SteelHead Mobile delivers app performance to today’s work-from-anywhere workforce. Delivered in a software-only form factor, SteelHead Mobile extends WAN optimization and app acceleration technology to remote users working from anywhere.N/A
Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
Score 9.9 out of 10
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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
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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 …
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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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.
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Pros
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  • WAN Acceleration.
  • Improves application performance.
  • Reduce bandwidth costs.
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Cons
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  • 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.
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Support Rating
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They need to improve their Spanish communication.
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Alternatives Considered
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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.
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Return on Investment
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  • Able to get rid of MPLS
  • No more router hardware costs
  • Able to use both WAN links instead of one being only failover
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