Silver Peak success story
Rating: 9 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
We have two locations and Silver Peak is used to provide SD-WAN services between the two locations. IT department is the main use case, and it is used across the entire organization. We have no other SD-WAN solutions. We used to have an MPLS circuit and a site to site VPN and two separate routers to allow connection. Silver Peak VX allowed us to save money by getting rid of the MPLS.
Pros
- Great support
- Software based, not a hardware company
- Easy to get going
- Great charts and meta data about traffic
Cons
- 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.