Name: Bigleaf
Rating: 10 (2 reviews)
Author: Bigleaf Networks

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

AI Chatbot

Help Authoring

No-Code Development

Software Configuration Management

Development

Admissions and Enrollment

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Enterprise

Accounting

Accounting and Tax Services

Cash Flow Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Employee Scheduling

Freelance Management

HR Management

Payroll

Recruitment Marketing

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

.Net Development

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

Build Automation

Cloud Storage

Database Management

Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)

Disaster Recovery

Disk Cloning

Fraud Detection

IT Service Providers

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Low-Code Development

Network Performance Monitoring

Object Storage

Server Virtualization

User Activity Monitoring

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Call Tracking

Click Fraud

Contact Center

Content Management

Cross-Channel Campaign Management

Customer Data

Email Marketing

Event Management

Marketing Automation

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Website Builder

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Construction CRM

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Sales

API Security

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)

Security

Catering

Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM)

Fleet Maintenance

Hotel Management

Insurance Underwriting and Rating

Interior Design

Last Mile Delivery

Lease Management

Legal Case Management

Moving Software

Plagiarism Checker

Public Transportation

Retail Management

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Proxy Server

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WAN Optimization

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Silver Peak NX appliances are WAN optimization solutions,  sized for the smallest of branch offices to the world's largest data centers and disaster recovery sites, supporting up to 5 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) of WAN capacity and 512,000 simultaneous flows. Silver Peak is now part of Aruba, since the September 2020 acquisition of Silver Peak by HPE.

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Extreme Networks wireless offerings increased following the Enterasys acquisition in 2013 and later, Aerohive. To unify all disparate elements and centralize control of the network all the way to the branch, ExtremeCloud SD-WAN is Extreme Networks' solution for simplicity and control.

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Extreme Networks

Bigleaf Networks in Beaverton offers their cloud-first SD-WAN, providing enterprise-grade Internet connectivity for business’ critical Cloud technologies.

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Bigleaf

Software-Defined WAN (SDWAN) represents a subset of the software-defined network (SDN), where policy and application defined software automate routing and optimizing WAN traffic by replacing traditional or legacy routing protocols and methods.

Likelihood to Recommend

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Bigleaf Networks

Reviews

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Meets our needs

Home

Software-Defined WAN Solutions

Teamcenter

Varonis Data Security Platform

We use Bigleaf across the entire organization at about a dozen sites. It moderates our two ISPs at each site to give us optimal performance and reliability. Before adding Bigleaf, we had difficulty with sites being down when a primary ISP failed or experiencing poor performance when an ISP was performing poorly.

Product Usage

Pros and Cons

Does not add a security layer - We have our own security layer and did not want an additional one.
Combines bandwidth from multiple ISPs to provide a bigger pipe.

Things done well

I can't think of anything to add here. It perfectly meets our needs!

Things done poorly

Bigleaf is great for getting good performance out of two mediocre ISPs.  Bigleaf is great for getting the combined bandwidth of two or more ISPs without having to subscribe to higher tiers with the ISP.  I can't imagine Bigleaf would do much good for a business with only one ISP.  Reporting with Bigleaf is helpful in documenting any issues with an ISP - I can show an ISP performance history if we experience a problem.

Bigleaf has dramatically improved our internet uptime and provides metrics to track that.
Bigleaf protects our internet performance by balancing ISPs so we don't experience poor performance when one ISP has a problem.

Return on Investment

Bigleaf doesn't add a security layer.  Competitors we looked at all bundled in security from Cisco or Fortinet, and we didn't want to learn another product and have a competing security layer.  With Bigleaf we are able to leverage our existing security solution.

Silver Peak NX and Varonis Data Security Platform

Alternatives

Any time we've had a problem, Bigleaf support has been readily available in English.  Support seems competent, and when one hardware device failed we were quickly provided with a replacement.

Support

Bigleaf 2020-01-14 08:15:20

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Bigleaf

Overview

What is Bigleaf?

Bigleaf offers a straightfoward and effective SD-WAN at a fair price

Pricing

Bigleaf

What is Bigleaf?

Entry-level set up fee?

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Alternatives Pricing

Untangle NG Firewall

What is Untangle NG Firewall?

Product Details

What is Bigleaf?

Bigleaf Technical Details

Comparisons

Compare with

VMware SD-WAN

Cisco Meraki SD-WAN

FortiGate

Cisco Meraki MX

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN

Lumen SD-WAN Solutions

Riverbed SteelHead

Silver Peak NX

ExtremeCloud SD-WAN

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