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Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued) Reviews & Insights

Score9.9 out of 10

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Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued) Reviews

2 Reviews

Silver Peak success story

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use 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.
Vetted Review
Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
3 years of experience

SP helps you optimized your WAN

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Across the whole organization and it optimized our WAN.

Pros

  • WAN Acceleration.
  • Improves application performance.
  • Reduce bandwidth costs.

Cons

  • Logistics worldwide.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.