We performed a comparison between Steelhead and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two WAN Edge solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is very easy to install 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."
"The most valuable feature of Steelhead is its optimization capabilities."
"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."
"Scalable data referencing is a great feature."
"I find the most valuable to be the compression and exchange replication."
"The connectivity to speed is the valuable feature."
"It's very powerful, especially for engineering teams."
"Our customers are very satisfied with this solution. They have not mentioned any areas for improvement."
"Our organization finds the application routing features extremely useful."
"The most valuable features are the main steering and the firewall. The security features and SD-WAN features are also quite good."
"There are great security and ops features without the need for having a different box for security."
"Overall, it's nice and very user friendly. That's what makes it so successful. They give you complicated features but with a very simple user interface, and that's been a big success for them."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The solution is stable and suitable."
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"The product needs improvement in its integration with SDN."
"One area for improvement is related to monitoring and visibility."
"The application response time of the solution can be improved."
"They should include a network switch in a future release."
"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."
"Application response time and network performance could be improved."
"The product should offer more integration capabilities."
"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"
"The solution's current customer support is not that good. So, they need to improve that. Also, the solution's UI is quite complex, so they need to simplify it."
"The stability of FlexVNF's controller and devices could be improved."
"The solution lacks a mobile version where small, manageable platforms can be developed."
"The VPN feature is relatively new. It came out two releases ago, and they're still fixing that up."
"The security should be improved."
"We are thinking about how to make customers consolidate the loads to an SD-WAN network so that the customers can have bigger chunk from the SD-WAN side so that customers can have critical data be transferred with NPS VPN and non-critical data or some labeled traffic can be transferred by the SD-WAN network. I think it's a very important direction for digital transformation."
"The web interface can be improved."
"With the pandemic and changing work models, it would be ideal if the product more accessibility options or more diversity within the solution itself."
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Steelhead is ranked 14th in WAN Edge with 23 reviews while Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is ranked 10th in WAN Edge with 20 reviews. Steelhead is rated 8.2, while Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Steelhead writes "Exceptionally stable and reliable but costly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform writes "A flexible, stable and scalable solution ". Steelhead is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform, Noction IRP, WAAS and Citrix SD-WAN, whereas Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, VMware SD-WAN, Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Meraki SD-WAN. See our Steelhead vs. Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform report.
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