We performed a comparison between SteelConnect EX Enterprise SD-WAN and Steelhead based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Fortinet, Cisco, VMware and others in WAN Edge."The analytics is the most valuable feature because it was very granular and very comprehensive, although a little complicated to use. If you're really interested in knowing what's happening on your network, it's a very good solution. That was the .NET Profiler part of the solution."
"TCP optimization... caches a particular TCP connection and the next time a user uses that connection he will reach the destination easily."
"The compression of Riverbed is very powerful. It can also handle large quantities of traffic."
"I find the most valuable to be the compression and exchange replication."
"The connectivity to speed is the valuable feature."
"Scalable data referencing is a great feature."
"One of our most valuable features is Steelhead's cloud migration optimization. Moving to the cloud helped optimize our workflow, improving performance for end-users."
"It is very easy to install the solution."
"The most valuable feature of Steelhead is its optimization capabilities."
"The routing scalability needs improvement. We have run into a lot of limitations and also primarily from a routine perspective, things like RSPs line support. It was supportive but not really supportive."
"Steelhead's handling of encrypted traffic could be improved because it requires some complex configuration to optimize encrypted traffic, especially when working with Microsoft protocols for mail servers and VPN services"
"One area for improvement is related to monitoring and visibility."
"Application response time and network performance could be improved."
"They should include a network switch in a future release."
"The solution needs to have alert notifications."
"If we load a primary firewall, the secondary firewall usually handles all the active connections, but in Riverbed, this isn't the case. We lose all the active connections at the moment of failure."
"The product needs improvement in its integration with SDN."
"The application response time of the solution can be improved."
SteelConnect EX Enterprise SD-WAN is ranked 22nd in WAN Edge while Steelhead is ranked 15th in WAN Edge with 23 reviews. SteelConnect EX Enterprise SD-WAN is rated 7.0, while Steelhead is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SteelConnect EX Enterprise SD-WAN writes "Analytics feature is very granular and comprehensive, although complicated to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Steelhead writes "Exceptionally stable and reliable but costly". SteelConnect EX Enterprise SD-WAN is most compared with , whereas Steelhead is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform, Noction IRP, WAAS and Vcinity UltimateX RadicalX.
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