Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued) vs. Symantec MACH5

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
Score 9.0 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
Symantec MACH5
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Symantec MACH5, formerly from Blue Coat, is presented as a WAN Optimization solution that accelerates application performance, improves user experience and saves bandwidth for today’s business, cloud and web applications.N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)Symantec MACH5
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Cisco Routers
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)Symantec MACH5
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
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Support Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)Symantec MACH5
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
This is well suited when you need to deploy a virtual router to provide SD-WAN services across multiple sites. This works great for small businesses since they added firewall services. The price and feature set are also great for mid-sized enterprises due to the ability to manage multiple appliances with templates, central reporting, and ability to provide high availability of the appliances with VRRP.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • WAN Acceleration.
  • Improves application performance.
  • Reduce bandwidth costs.
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • 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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Broadcom
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • 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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